Best AI Tools for Developers

[LuxRiches]

Best IDEs

Windsurf (better Sonnet 3.7 integration)
Cline (Powerful VScode Extension)
Cursor (a bit unstable lately)


Best for Landing pages

Lovable (better UI design, modern styling)
Softgen (great at screenshot to code)
Bolt (great at one-shotting a landing page)


Best for Micro SaaS

Replit Agent (great for coding quick MVPs)
Bolt (frontend & backend done fast)


Best for Complex SaaS

Cursor (great new cursor agent & mcp integrations)
Cline (great memories feature & mcp integrations)
Windsurf (easy to navigate, best context awareness)


Best for Project Coding Documentation

GPT o1 model (limited messages but great output)
CodeGuide.dev (works with all coding models and AI tools)


Best Web Search Tools:

Grok 3 (Fast, cheap and great output quality)
Perplexity (Deep Research is fast and in-depth)
ChatGPT (Expensive but output reports are good)


Best Design AI tools:

21st dev (copy pre-designed components with 1-click)
UIzard (design UI screens/mockups with AI)


New Emerging tools:

Wrapifai (great for coding mini tools)
AIDE IDE (new IDE like Cursor)
Tempo labs (best UX, good for micro SaaS)
Webdraw (draw and get a coded app)
Rork (new tool for mobile apps)
Create xyz (new update is great - text to app platform)
Base44 (best for coding dashboard apps)
Databutton (nice UI and different approach)
Aider (great terminal based CLI tool)

 

[Michaeldoods]

Thanks for sharing these because I did not know about most of them! There sure are lot of ai models out there now.