Building Freebird AI - a free coding assistant for Indie developers and small teams

Hey everyone,

Launching on Product Hunt this Wednesday (July 15), but wanted to start the conversation here first.

We built Freebird because most AI coding tools are enterprise-first: usage-based throttling that favours larger accounts, pricing built around company budgets, and a "try it" experience that assumes you'll eventually pay whatever it costs.

Freebird's the opposite bet: 20 real AI edits a day, free, forever - no throttled "fast request" quotas, no forced trial clock. Multi-file agent mode, inline editing, semantic codebase search, AI commit messages. Want it fully private? Switch to Ollama - it's unlimited and local; your code never leaves your machine.

Need more? Pro is $6/month, Team is $25/month for 5 seats - priced for indie devs and small startups, not enterprise budgets.

It's already reached developers in 20+ countries - Nairobi, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Frankfurt, and plenty more -entirely through word of mouth, no marketing budget behind it.

This past week alone, we fixed a chat bug that had silently broken things for a while, closed a paywall gap, and shipped semantic codebase search. If you've tried Freebird before and hit something broken, it's genuinely worth another look now.

Would love feedback ahead of launch - especially anywhere it still feels like it's punching below Cursor or Copilot. That gap is exactly what we are working on closing next.