Tools for developers — Works with VS Code

21 match your filters — 21 of them answered our check today.

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ShiftFast

Live

A paid Next.js starter kit pre-wired with Clerk auth, Stripe billing and Drizzle ORM, for developers, agencies and indie hackers who want to skip setup.

Domain registered 25 days ago

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How it works
A Next.js starter kit pre-wired with Clerk for auth (including multi-tenancy and organization-switching), Stripe for billing, and Drizzle as the ORM layer.
What's different
Uses Clerk's official multi-tenancy implementation instead of a custom auth wrapper, and ships under a completely flexible open license.
Best for
Developers, agencies, and indie hackers who want to skip initial SaaS setup.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 8d ago

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Gitoryx

Live

A native (non-Electron) Git GUI for Mac and Windows built for speed and low memory use, positioned against GitKraken, SourceTree, Fork and Tower for developers who find those apps sluggish.

Domain registered 2 months ago

No sign-upWorks offline
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How it works
A native Git GUI for macOS and Windows with a color-coded, virtualized commit graph and infinite scroll. Works fully offline and locally, with no account or cloud dependency.
What's different
Roughly 12 MB and launches in a fraction of a second, versus the 300–500 MB idle RAM and multi-second cold starts of Electron-based clients like GitKraken, SourceTree, Fork, and Tower.
Best for
Developers frustrated with the resource overhead of Electron-based Git clients.

Watched for 11 days · last checked 2d ago

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Nim Code

Live

AI coding assistant for vs code

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How it works
An AI coding assistant for VS Code powered exclusively by NVIDIA NIM, with multi-model chat, an autonomous agent mode, slash commands, streaming, and secure key storage.
Best for
VS Code users who want an AI coding assistant.
Watch out
Runs exclusively on NVIDIA NIM as its model backend.

Watched for 14 days · last checked today

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Toolport

Live

A local gateway that lets every AI coding client share one set of MCP server connections instead of configuring each tool separately, cutting how many tools your agent has to load.

FreeNo sign-upWorks offlineOpen source
What to know▼
How it works
A local-first, open-source gateway. You set up and authenticate each MCP server once, and every connected AI client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex — shares that same connection instead of you configuring it per tool.
What's different
Claims up to 91% less tool-token overhead by giving an agent a handful of meta-tools instead of loading hundreds of individual tool definitions; API keys stay in the OS keychain.
Pricing
Free, open source, no sign-up.
Best for
Developers running multiple AI coding clients against the same set of MCP servers who don't want to re-authenticate each one separately.
Watch out
The '91% overhead cut' figure is the product's own claim; we haven't independently benchmarked it.

Watched for 20 days · last checked today

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Mishu Theme Pro

Live

Gives developers a readable, balanced-contrast VS Code theme instead of a default theme during long coding sessions.

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

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AI Live Assistant

Live

Watches your code inside VS Code and suggests a one-click fix the moment an error appears, without copy-pasting into a chat.

Domain registered 26 days ago

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How it works
Detects errors in real time inside the editor and applies a fix on click
What's different
No copy-paste into a separate chat window

Watched for 6 days · last checked today

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DevSwat IDE

Live

Turns codebases into interactive maps, dependency graphs and governance reports, with GitHub scans built in — a code-intelligence tool for engineering teams doing architecture review.

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How it works
A VS Code–based AI IDE combining 124 local tools, chat-window sessions, in-terminal execution, and AST/dependency analysis, with configurable agent loop counts from 5 to unlimited.
What's different
Can connect to a local LLM for private, deterministic results, or use your own API key — code execution stays local, with only auth and orchestration running server-side.
Best for
Developers who want an AI coding IDE with local, deterministic execution control.

Watched for 11 days · last checked 3d ago

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Dynamic Feed

Live

A single API call returns live, cryptographically signed data across 87 sources so AI agents and software can verify what they're consuming — a developer-facing trust layer, not a consumer app.

No sign-upOpen source
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How it works
A single keyless API call returns structured JSON for 87 live tools across 19 verticals; each datapoint carries its source, licence, timestamp and an Ed25519 signature, optionally Bitcoin-anchored.
What's different
Data is cryptographically verifiable rather than just scraped and cited, and it works without signup or an API key via an MCP endpoint or batch POST.
Best for
Developers building AI agents or software that need to independently verify the live data they consume.

Watched for 17 days · last checked today

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Diploi

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A cloud platform that spins up ready-to-code dev, staging and production environments in minutes, aimed at engineering teams onboarding new developers fast.

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How it works
Spins up ready-to-code cloud development environments in minutes, giving each developer an instant environment and each project a consistent path from development through staging to production.
What's different
Lets teams skip local installs entirely and onboard new developers with a single click, while integrating with tools like Cursor, GitHub, and VS Code.
Best for
Engineering teams that want to onboard developers quickly and standardize environments from dev to production.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

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Highpay Ads

Live

Shows small sponsored text ads in your IDE sidebar (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf) and pays you for it — passive income for developers, not an ad-buying tool.

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How it works
Displays small sponsored text cards in the Explorer sidebar of VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, and pays developers for showing them.
What's different
Plain text ads matching the editor's look, not banners or popups.
Best for
Developers who spend hours in their IDE and want to earn passive income from sidebar space.

Watched for 18 days · last checked today

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FetchSandbox

Live

Lets developers and AI coding agents test API integrations beyond the first response — webhooks, retries, async flows, failures — against sandboxed mock versions of 60+ real APIs, connected via MCP.

What to know▼
How it works
Lets developers and AI coding agents test API integrations beyond the first response — webhooks, retries, state changes, async workflows and failure scenarios — against sandboxed versions of 60+ real APIs (Stripe, GitHub, Clerk, Resend, Twilio, Descope, OpenAI) via MCP.
What's different
Reproduces the real bug and remembers what breaks so agents catch it again before production, rather than stopping at a 200 OK check.
Best for
Developers and AI coding agents (via Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, VS Code, Codex) who need to test failure paths without burning real API quota.

Watched for 15 days · last checked 9d ago

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AICode

Live

A VS Code AI coding assistant focused on maintaining legacy enterprise codebases without drifting from intent, for professional developer teams rather than a general speed tool.

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How it works
A spec-driven AI coding assistant for VS Code that follows a strict Ideate-to-Verify workflow, focused on maintaining legacy enterprise software while keeping code changes aligned with intent.
What's different
Constrains the model to respect a project's global context and catches AI mistakes before they reach the codebase, positioned specifically for legacy enterprise maintenance rather than general-purpose coding speed.
Best for
Professional developer teams maintaining complex legacy enterprise codebases.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

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Ricochet coding

Live

An open-source AI coding agent that works in your editor, terminal, or via Discord and Telegram, with approvals and diff review before it touches code. For developers who want to supervise an agent, not just chat with one.

Open source
What to know▼
How it works
An open-source, local-first AI coding agent for VS Code-compatible editors, CLI/TUI, and messengers via Ether Live Mode (Discord, Telegram), keeping a reviewable task timeline with approvals, checkpoints and pending diffs, and routing across BYOK or Grik-hosted models.
What's different
Keeps a reviewable approval timeline instead of running as an editor-only assistant, with swarm workers for recurring checks and remote follow-ups.
Best for
Developers who want to supervise and approve an AI agent's changes rather than just chat with it.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 2d ago

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Ømnimorph

Live

Lets developer teams generate dynamic UIs from reusable primitives instead of building custom tooling UIs from scratch.

Watched for 1 day · last checked today

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Kube-DC Cloud

Live

A fixed-price Kubernetes-native cloud for developers, offering VMs, clusters, managed Postgres/MariaDB, and observability, controllable via natural language in AI IDEs like Cursor and Claude Code or via kubectl, Terraform, and GitHub Actions.

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How it works
Deploys VMs, Kubernetes clusters, containerized workloads, managed databases, private networks, observability, and backups from one resource pool, managed through an AI IDE, Web Console, CLI, kubectl, Helm, Terraform, or GitOps.
Best for
Developer teams wanting predictable, fixed-price Kubernetes infrastructure.

Watched for 7 days · last checked 7d ago

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SnapForge UI

Live

A personal vault for vetted UI components that AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor can pull from over MCP instead of inventing new UI each time. Built for developers, not general users.

Domain registered 1 month ago

Can export my data
What to know▼
How it works
A personal vault for UI components: paste a React/HTML snippet, a shadcn CLI install command, or upload a zip, and it gets classified, security-checked and previewed live in a sandbox for export. A built-in MCP server lets tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code pull from your vetted vault when building UI.
What's different
AI coding agents build from your own curated, security-checked component library instead of hallucinating or reinventing UI.
Best for
Developers using AI coding agents who want those agents to reuse a personal, vetted set of UI components.

Watched for 14 days · last checked 2d ago

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Mother Brain

Live

Gives AI coding tools like Cursor and VS Code persistent local memory of your codebase, running on your own machine - priced at $25/year, not one-time, apart from a limited beta deal.

Works offline
What to know▼
How it works
Gives AI coding assistants persistent memory: it indexes your codebase with vector search, saves every conversation, and connects to Zed, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP-compatible tools, running on embedded PostgreSQL + pgvector.
What's different
100% local-first with no cloud required, unlike most AI memory tools.
Pricing
$25/year, no tiers; beta testers get lifetime access for a $25 one-time payment.
Best for
Developers using AI coding assistants who want persistent, local memory of their codebase across sessions and team members.

Watched for 15 days · last checked 2d ago

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MCPize

Live

A marketplace of 1000+ vetted MCP servers that plug into Claude, Cursor, VS Code and other AI tools, with one API key, consolidated billing, and one-click GitHub deploy for publishers.

What to know▼
How it works
A marketplace of 1,000+ vetted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that integrate with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and other AI tools, giving users one API key, consolidated billing and a unified usage/cost dashboard across all servers they use; developers can publish a server with GitHub auto-deploy in about 30 seconds.
What's different
Every listed server passes a stated 7-dimension quality audit covering protocol compliance, OAuth, reliability and safety, and publishers earn an 80% revenue share.
Pricing
Free tier includes 25,000 requests per month with no credit card required.
Best for
Developers who want to discover and use vetted MCP servers across multiple AI tools without managing separate API keys and bills, and publishers who want to monetize an MCP server.

Watched for 18 days · last checked 11d ago

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WaitJI AI

Live

VS Code extension that shows sponsored ads during Claude Code's 'thinking' pauses and pays developers a share of ad revenue.

Domain registered 1 month ago

Free
What to know▼
How it works
Shows a sponsored line in the Claude Code spinner during its 5-30 second thinking pauses, paying developers 50% of ad revenue directly to their UPI account.
Pricing
Free to install; withdraw from ₹100 to UPI.
Watch out
India-focused (UPI payments).

Watched for 3 days · last checked 3d ago

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SnailText

Live

Offline on-device speech to text for Mac and Windows

No sign-upWorks offlineData stays with you

First seen today · last checked today

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WaitSpin

Live

A marketplace turning the idle wait time in AI coding agent interfaces into a small opt-in sponsor ad surface for developer tools.

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How it works
Lets developers enable a single opt-in sponsor line in coding-agent status/wait interfaces, keeping a 60% baseline share of billed impression revenue.
What's different
Does not require access to source code, prompts, model output, terminal output, screenshots, clipboard, or repository files.

Watched for 3 days · last checked 3d ago

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