Launched this week
Freebird AI
AI coding assistant for indie developers and small teams
8 followers
AI coding assistant for indie developers and small teams
8 followers
A free, lighter alternative to Cursor/Copilot; built for indie devs and small teams, not enterprise leftovers. 20 real AI edits/day, forever free, no throttled fast-request quotas. Multi-file agent mode, inline edits, semantic codebase search, AI commit messages, zero setup. Fully private via Ollama, unlimited and local. Need more? Pro $6/mo or Team $25/mo. Already reaching developers across 20+ countries.
Hey Everyone 👋,
We built Freebird because most AI coding tools are enterprise-first: throttled quotas, pricing built for higher-income markets. For indie devs, small teams and developers across the Global South and Africa, that's a real bottleneck, not a footnote.
Freebird's the opposite: built for the solo dev and small startup from day one. 20 free edits a day, no throttling games, pricing that actually makes sense at that scale. This week we fixed a chat bug that had silently broken things for weeks, closed a paywall gap, and shipped semantic codebase search; so if you tried it before, worth another look.
Would love feedback, especially anywhere it still feels like it's punching below Cursor.
honestly the daily cap kind of kills my flow when I'm in deep debugging mode. what if you added a one-time bonus pool, like extra edits you can earn by letting your local model handle the simpler completions in the background
@nazifeddge3yit Really appreciate this, and honestly, hitting the cap mid-debug is exactly the pain Pro is built to remove. $6/month gets you unlimited cloud edits, no daily cap at all, so deep debugging sessions never get interrupted.
The "earn bonus edits via local completions" idea is clever, we are definitely noting this for later. However, if the cap is actively costing you flow right now, Pro solves it today: [upgrade link]. (Fully local via Ollama is also an option if you'd rather stay free - happy to point you there instead if that's the better fit for how you work).
Really like the Ollama-first angle, that's what sold me on clicking through. One thing that would make this stick for me: a lightweight way to share snippets of my local model's prompts and responses with teammates without leaking the rest of the codebase, kind of a redacted export button right inside the chat. Would be huge for pair debugging on a free plan.
@akaygaz91387 Really appreciate this, and glad the Ollama-first angle is what landed for you, that's exactly the audience we built it for.
The redacted export idea is smart, and honestly, a gap we hadn't thought through yet (sharing a chat naturally risks leaking whatever context got pulled in). Not something we'll ship today mid-launch, but this is going straight into the post-launch backlog.
Thank you for taking the time to actually think this through rather than just leaving a generic comment
Multi-file agent mode actually works without me babysitting it, which was not what I expected. The local Ollama option is a nice touch for keeping side projects private.
@cengizmaskar Really glad to hear that - multi-file agent mode just working without hand-holding was exactly the bar we were trying to hit, so this means a lot. And yeah, the local Ollama route was built specifically for side-project/private-code peace of mind, glad it's landing that way. Thanks for trying it out and taking the time to share this!
Wow! Thank you all for the feedback and support so far today
A few things standing out from the comments: the Ollama-first, fully-local angle seems to be exactly what's landing for a lot of you, that's genuinely the part we care most about getting right, so hearing it confirmed means a lot. Also, really glad multi-file agent mode is holding up without needing hand-holding; that reliability was the hardest part to get right, so that comment made my day.
A couple of you have also flagged the daily cap breaking flow during deep debugging sessions - hearing that loud and clear, and it's exactly the kind of real-usage feedback I was hoping this launch would surface. Keep it coming.
Thank you for taking the time, we are reading every comment today.