Anthropic
Claude
A conversational AI assistant often used for long documents, careful writing, coding help, and structured reasoning.
Working through long documents and messy notes
Drafting clear internal documents
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Coding AI tools that are useful for real work
Coding tools can help founders and developers plan features, edit code, review pull requests, and understand unfamiliar projects.
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Anysphere
Cursor
An AI coding editor for editing projects, asking questions about a codebase, and making changes with agent-style workflows.
Working inside a real codebase
Making multi-file edits faster
GitHub
GitHub Copilot
AI coding help from GitHub for suggestions, chat, code review support, and editor workflows.
Teams already using GitHub
Developers who want AI inside familiar tools
Replit
Replit
A browser-based coding workspace with AI support for building, testing, and deploying small projects.
Fast prototypes without local setup
Learning by building
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A low-cost AI assistant and open-weight model family from a Chinese AI lab, used for chat, coding help, and research at a fraction of the price of larger providers.
Getting strong reasoning and coding help without paying premium API rates
Running an open-weight model yourself when you need control over your data
Lovable
Lovable
An AI app builder that turns plain-English chat into a deployed full-stack web app, with the database, login, and hosting wired up for you.
Shipping a working MVP or internal tool without local setup
Non-technical founders who want a live app from a description
Vercel
v0
An AI builder from Vercel that turns prompts into UI and full-stack web apps you can refine visually and deploy to Vercel.
Generating a clean UI or landing page from a prompt
Turning a design idea into a working React and Next.js app