What is the best Vibe Coding tool so far? Bonus points if we've never heard of it!
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I might be missing some but I've been pretty much in love with @Lovable, @Cursor, @bolt.new and have been trying to use @Replit more and I honestly haven't touched @BASE44 too much but have heard good things. @chrismessina has nudged me to use @Windsurf for whenever I build another Raycast Extension!
Currently I use:
- @bolt.new / @Lovable
- @Cursor
- @Warp
Curious what everyone thinks is the top one so far!
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for the bonus points: aider with the right model config (sonnet 4.6 + repo-map enabled) is criminally underrated. it's CLI-first which scares some people off but you can drop it into any repo, point it at a few files, and it just works. no subscription, no SSO, no tab limit. for the more mainstream answer: cursor agent mode if you want the IDE feel
I've used Firebase Studio ( @Firebase a Google product) recently. Pretty easy, not super robust. Good for small applications like this: https://studio--gentext-zagsi.us-central1.hosted.app
Also, Magic Patterns @Magic Patterns is a new one I've queued up to play with this weekend: https://www.magicpatterns.com
Best IDE so far for me is TRAE
I'm voting for @Cursor It really helps me create my startup from design implement to deploying
I got locked into Cursor early, and it's great for my dev friends, but as a "less than technical" person, I started messing with Lovable this past week. It's hard to beat Cursor with Claude 4, it feels like a god damn superpower - but I blow up a lot of stuff and have learned to toggle between "ask" and "agent." "Restore point" is my friend.
I like blowing out ideas in Perplexity Labs, then copying the app to cursor to create apps in 30 minutes. I know, it's lame, but it works.
Product Hunt
Wow Windsurf is getting demolished in the poll. How the mighty have fallen.
@steveb Basically I guess for what happened last few weeks. I've followed for a while. It turns out that there has been an acquisition race to get Windsurf's technologies. First OpenAI was rumored to be in talks with them to buy it at $3B. Then Microsoft came in and stopped affecting a deal. Google intervened and hired their top makers, including their CEO. Finally Cognition acquired Windsurf and their remaining team.
It was wild.
Most likely Cognition is going to deprecate & merge Windsurf's technologies into Devin.
Give zencoder.ai a try - likely the most complete solution that integrates directly into your existing IDE, like VS Code or JetBrains - plus you can build your own custom agents and have a nice test coverage, so you are not shipping just vibes but actual production-ready quality of code.
@Replit @Lovable and @bolt.new are my top 3, didn't like the others. Replit does have a looping issue which I have highlighted to @amasad in my tweet in response to the recent incident. There are two new ones that I trying now Emergent and @Dualite and they look quite decent.
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