{
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "categories": {
  "agents": "Coding agents & AI IDEs",
  "builders": "AI app builders",
  "backend": "Backend & database",
  "hosting": "Hosting & deploy",
  "authpay": "Auth & payments",
  "llm": "LLM APIs",
  "design": "Design & UI generation"
 },
 "useCases": [
  {
   "name": "Build a SaaS with payments",
   "ship": [
    "Claude Code",
    "Clerk",
    "Cursor",
    "Stripe",
    "Supabase",
    "Vercel"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Base44",
    "Google Stitch",
    "Lemon Squeezy"
   ],
   "why": "Pick a code-first agent + Postgres + Stripe. Skip tools that hide the code or can't model subscriptions well."
  },
  {
   "name": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
   "ship": [
    "Base44",
    "Bolt.new",
    "Lovable",
    "Replit"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Better Auth",
    "Cline",
    "Fly.io"
   ],
   "why": "Prompt-to-app builders with built-in hosting win. Skip anything that needs a terminal."
  },
  {
   "name": "Build a polished landing page",
   "ship": [
    "Lovable",
    "Relume",
    "Vercel",
    "shadcn/ui",
    "v0"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Firebase",
    "Fly.io",
    "Railway"
   ],
   "why": "UI generators + static hosting. Skip backend-heavy infrastructure."
  },
  {
   "name": "Add AI features to an app",
   "ship": [
    "Anthropic API",
    "Google Gemini API",
    "OpenAI API",
    "OpenRouter"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Base44",
    "Relume"
   ],
   "why": "Use a direct LLM API or a router for flexibility."
  },
  {
   "name": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
   "ship": [
    "Claude Code",
    "Cursor",
    "GitHub Copilot",
    "OpenAI Codex"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Base44",
    "Bolt.new",
    "Lovable",
    "v0"
   ],
   "why": "Agents that work on your real repo with git. Skip prompt-to-app builders."
  },
  {
   "name": "Build a realtime app",
   "ship": [
    "Convex",
    "Firebase",
    "Railway",
    "Supabase"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Netlify",
    "Vercel"
   ],
   "why": "Realtime-native backends; serverless hosts struggle with long-lived connections."
  },
  {
   "name": "Sell a digital product solo",
   "ship": [
    "Lemon Squeezy",
    "Lovable",
    "Netlify",
    "Stripe"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Better Auth",
    "Fly.io"
   ],
   "why": "A merchant of record handles tax for you."
  },
  {
   "name": "Mobile app backend",
   "ship": [
    "Convex",
    "Firebase",
    "Supabase"
   ],
   "skip": [
    "Netlify",
    "Relume"
   ],
   "why": "Mobile SDKs + auth + sync matter most."
  }
 ],
 "releases": [
  {
   "title": "Bolt free for everyone this weekend, plus a $10K build contest",
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "tool": "Bolt.new",
   "source": "https://x.com/boltdotnew/status/2111125198577479919",
   "summary": "Bolt says it's free for everyone from 12:00am PT Oct 17 through the weekend; submit a build by Oct 20 for a shot at $10K."
  },
  {
   "title": "Lovable apps can message customers on WhatsApp",
   "date": "2026-10-16",
   "tool": "Lovable",
   "source": "https://x.com/Lovable/status/2111094629399765488",
   "summary": "Connect a WhatsApp business number, then ask Lovable to build an inbox, reminders and message templates."
  },
  {
   "title": "Supabase local dev without Docker",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "Supabase",
   "source": "https://x.com/supabase/status/2110857277494169647",
   "summary": "Run Supabase locally without Docker; each coding agent can get its own local project so parallel agents do not clobber each other's database."
  },
  {
   "title": "Muse Wonder available in Cursor",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "Cursor",
   "source": "https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2110867556693430293",
   "summary": "Meta's Muse Wonder model is selectable in Cursor; Cursor reports 46.1% on CursorBench at default effort, priced at $4/M input and $20/M output tokens."
  },
  {
   "title": "Copilot multi-repo support in Slack and Microsoft Teams",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "GitHub Copilot",
   "source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-15-copilot-in-slack-and-teams-adds-model-and-repository-updates/",
   "summary": "GitHub Copilot in Slack and Teams can work across multiple repositories in one conversation, with better thread context and more natural @GitHub mentions."
  },
  {
   "title": "Lovable MCP enterprise SSO for Claude",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "Lovable",
   "source": "https://docs.lovable.dev/changelog",
   "summary": "Business and Enterprise workspace admins can let members use the Lovable MCP server in Claude via company SSO (e.g. Okta), without a separate Lovable sign-in."
  },
  {
   "title": "Lovable growth tools: ads, SEO and content",
   "date": "2026-10-14",
   "tool": "Lovable",
   "source": "https://x.com/Lovable/status/2110355248237928857",
   "summary": "Launch ads to Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram and create images, video and marketing copy from your builds, inside Lovable."
  },
  {
   "title": "Gemini 4 Argon GA in GitHub Copilot",
   "date": "2026-10-13",
   "tool": "GitHub Copilot",
   "source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-10-13-gemini-4-argon-in-github-copilot/",
   "summary": "Google's newest frontier model available for Copilot Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise users."
  },
  {
   "title": "Muse Wonder & Muse Wonder Full",
   "date": "2026-10-12",
   "tool": "Meta",
   "source": "https://dev.meta.ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-wonder",
   "summary": "Meta's coding models for Muse Code; Muse Wonder on the API at $4/$20 per M tokens."
  },
  {
   "title": "Muse Spark Open (open weights)",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "Meta",
   "source": "https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-spark-open",
   "summary": "816B-param (42B active) open-weight model with 1M context, aimed at coding and agents."
  },
  {
   "title": "Agentic autofix & AI Scan for PRs GA",
   "date": "2026-10-15",
   "tool": "GitHub",
   "source": "https://github.blog/changelog/month/10-2026/",
   "summary": "Agentic remediation of code scanning alerts and AI vulnerability scans for PRs."
  },
  {
   "title": "Claude Code v2.1.296",
   "date": "2026-10-09",
   "tool": "Claude Code",
   "source": "https://autocoder.dev/blog/ai-coding-agents-october-2026-what-changed",
   "summary": "Reads oversized files in one call; subagents can auto-compact earlier (third-party summary)."
  },
  {
   "title": "Cursor CLI 2026.10.08",
   "date": "2026-10-08",
   "tool": "Cursor",
   "source": "https://autocoder.dev/blog/ai-coding-agents-october-2026-what-changed",
   "summary": "Approval required before risky recursive/wildcard deletes (third-party summary)."
  }
 ],
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Cursor",
   "url": "https://cursor.com",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "AI-first code editor (VS Code fork) with agent mode, tab completion and a CLI.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Daily coding in an existing repo",
    "Multi-file refactors with review",
    "Devs comfortable reading diffs"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Total non-coders wanting a no-code flow",
    "Teams locked into JetBrains IDEs",
    "Predictable flat costs on heavy agent usage"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Claude Code",
   "url": "https://claude.com/product/claude-code",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool; also in IDEs and web.",
   "pricing": "Included with Claude paid plans or billed via API usage",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Long, multi-step tasks across a large codebase",
    "Terminal-native workflows and scripting",
    "Autonomous refactors with subagents"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "People who want a visual GUI builder",
    "Strictly fixed budgets on API billing",
    "Using non-Anthropic models",
    "Uninterrupted all-day use on lower-tier plans (session and weekly usage limits)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "OpenAI Codex",
   "url": "https://openai.com/codex",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "OpenAI's coding agent across CLI, IDE extension and cloud tasks.",
   "pricing": "Included with ChatGPT paid plans; API usage also available",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Parallel background tasks",
    "Teams already on ChatGPT plans",
    "Worktree-isolated changes"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Non-coders who can't review diffs",
    "Users wanting model choice beyond OpenAI"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "GitHub Copilot",
   "url": "https://github.com/features/copilot",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "GitHub's AI pair programmer with chat, coding agent, CLI and multi-model picker.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Teams already on GitHub",
    "Widest IDE support (VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode, more)",
    "Enterprise policy controls"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Building an app from a prompt with zero code",
    "Developers wanting a fully agent-first editor UX"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Windsurf",
   "url": "https://windsurf.com",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "Agentic AI IDE with the Cascade agent.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Developers wanting an agent-first IDE alternative to Cursor"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Teams needing long-term vendor certainty (ownership changed in 2025)",
    "Non-coders"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Cline",
   "url": "https://cline.bot",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code; bring your own model/API key.",
   "pricing": "Open-source extension; you pay your model provider",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Choosing any model incl. local ones",
    "Transparency over every step",
    "Avoiding a subscription"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Users who don't want to manage API keys/costs",
    "Beginners (token costs can spike)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Zed",
   "url": "https://zed.dev",
   "category": "agents",
   "description": "Fast, Rust-built collaborative editor with built-in AI agent support.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Speed-focused devs",
    "Real-time collaboration",
    "Using external agents in-editor"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Users dependent on the VS Code extension ecosystem",
    "Windows-first teams wanting the most mature build"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Lovable",
   "url": "https://lovable.dev",
   "category": "builders",
   "description": "Prompt-to-full-stack web app builder with Supabase integration and GitHub sync.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + credit-based paid plans",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Non-coders shipping MVPs fast",
    "Landing pages + CRUD apps",
    "Supabase-backed prototypes"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Complex custom backend logic",
    "Native mobile apps",
    "Debug loops that burn credits on large apps",
    "Apps holding user data shipped without a security review (a 2025 scan found ~10% of 1,645 showcased Lovable apps exposed data via weak Supabase RLS, CVE-2025-48757)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Bolt.new",
   "url": "https://bolt.new",
   "category": "builders",
   "description": "StackBlitz's in-browser AI full-stack app builder.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + token-based paid plans",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Quick JS/TS prototypes in the browser",
    "Demos and hackathons"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Large, long-lived codebases",
    "Token-heavy iterations on a budget"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Replit",
   "url": "https://replit.com",
   "category": "builders",
   "description": "Cloud IDE with Replit Agent that builds, hosts and deploys apps.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans with usage-based agent billing",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "All-in-one build + host + DB",
    "Beginners with no local setup",
    "Internal tools"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Cost-sensitive heavy agent use (effort-based pricing)",
    "Teams needing their own cloud infra"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "v0",
   "url": "https://v0.app",
   "category": "builders",
   "description": "Vercel's AI builder for React/Next.js UIs and apps, deployable to Vercel.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + credit-based paid plans",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Next.js + Tailwind + shadcn/ui frontends",
    "Polished UI fast",
    "Vercel deploys"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Non-React stacks",
    "Heavy backend/business logic"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Base44",
   "url": "https://base44.com",
   "category": "builders",
   "description": "No-code AI app builder with built-in database, auth and hosting (owned by Wix).",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 6,
   "bestFor": [
    "Internal tools and simple apps for non-coders"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Projects needing full code ownership/portability",
    "Complex scalable products"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Refactor a large existing codebase",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Supabase",
   "url": "https://supabase.com",
   "category": "backend",
   "description": "Open-source Postgres platform with auth, storage, realtime and edge functions.",
   "pricing": "Generous free tier + usage-based paid plans",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Default backend for AI-built apps",
    "SQL + Row Level Security",
    "Auth + DB in one"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Teams unwilling to learn RLS (misconfigured policies leak data)",
    "Free projects that must stay always-on (free projects pause when inactive)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Mobile app backend",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Firebase",
   "url": "https://firebase.google.com",
   "category": "backend",
   "description": "Google's app platform: Firestore, auth, hosting, functions, and AI tooling.",
   "pricing": "Free Spark plan + pay-as-you-go Blaze",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Mobile apps",
    "Realtime sync",
    "Google Cloud users"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Relational/SQL-heavy data",
    "Avoiding vendor lock-in"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Mobile app backend",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Convex",
   "url": "https://convex.dev",
   "category": "backend",
   "description": "Reactive TypeScript backend: database, functions and realtime in one.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "TypeScript full-stack apps",
    "Realtime features",
    "AI agents writing backend code (it's all TS)"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Teams wanting raw SQL/Postgres",
    "Non-JS stacks"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Mobile app backend",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Neon",
   "url": "https://neon.com",
   "category": "backend",
   "description": "Serverless Postgres with branching and scale-to-zero (acquired by Databricks).",
   "pricing": "Free tier + usage-based plans",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Plain Postgres without managing servers",
    "Branch-per-preview workflows"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "People who want auth/storage bundled",
    "Latency-critical workloads sensitive to cold starts"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Vercel",
   "url": "https://vercel.com",
   "category": "hosting",
   "description": "Frontend cloud from the makers of Next.js: git deploys, previews, serverless.",
   "pricing": "Free Hobby (non-commercial) + paid Pro/Enterprise",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Next.js and frontend apps",
    "Preview deploys per PR"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Commercial use on the Hobby plan (not allowed)",
    "Long-running backends/websockets",
    "Unpredictable bandwidth bills without spend limits"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Netlify",
   "url": "https://netlify.com",
   "category": "hosting",
   "description": "Web platform for static sites and frontend frameworks with functions and forms.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Static sites and Jamstack",
    "Simple form handling"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Heavy server workloads",
    "Next.js-specific edge features"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Mobile app backend",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Railway",
   "url": "https://railway.com",
   "category": "hosting",
   "description": "Deploy apps, databases and workers from a repo with minimal config.",
   "pricing": "Usage-based with trial/low-cost hobby plan",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Backends, workers, cron, DBs together",
    "Docker apps"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Purely static sites (overkill)",
    "Strict enterprise compliance needs"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a realtime app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Render",
   "url": "https://render.com",
   "category": "hosting",
   "description": "Cloud for web services, static sites, Postgres and background workers.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Heroku-style app hosting",
    "Managed Postgres"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Free-tier production apps (free services spin down when idle)"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Fly.io",
   "url": "https://fly.io",
   "category": "hosting",
   "description": "Run containers close to users across global regions.",
   "pricing": "Usage-based pricing",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Global low-latency apps",
    "Docker-savvy builders"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Beginners wanting zero-ops",
    "Click-to-deploy simplicity"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Clerk",
   "url": "https://clerk.com",
   "category": "authpay",
   "description": "Drop-in authentication and user management with prebuilt UI components.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Fast auth in React/Next.js",
    "Orgs/B2B SSO"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Very large free user bases on a budget",
    "Teams wanting fully self-hosted auth"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Better Auth",
   "url": "https://better-auth.com",
   "category": "authpay",
   "description": "Open-source TypeScript authentication framework you self-host.",
   "pricing": "Free, open-source",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Owning your auth data",
    "TypeScript stacks"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Non-coders",
    "Teams wanting a managed dashboard and support"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Ship an MVP with no coding",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Stripe",
   "url": "https://stripe.com",
   "category": "authpay",
   "description": "Payments infrastructure: checkout, subscriptions, billing, invoicing.",
   "pricing": "Per-transaction fees; no monthly fee for standard",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "SaaS subscriptions",
    "Any serious payments",
    "Well-known to AI agents"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Handling global sales tax yourself without Stripe Tax",
    "Unsupported countries"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Lemon Squeezy",
   "url": "https://lemonsqueezy.com",
   "category": "authpay",
   "description": "Merchant of record for digital products/SaaS, handling sales tax (owned by Stripe).",
   "pricing": "Per-transaction fees",
   "score": 6,
   "bestFor": [
    "Solo sellers who want tax handled",
    "Digital downloads"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Complex billing logic",
    "Lower fees at scale (MoR fees are higher)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Sell a digital product solo",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "OpenAI API",
   "url": "https://openai.com/api",
   "category": "llm",
   "description": "API access to OpenAI's GPT models, embeddings, image and voice.",
   "pricing": "Pay-per-token",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "General-purpose LLM features",
    "Structured outputs and tool use"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Strict data-residency needs without enterprise setup",
    "Running models locally"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Anthropic API",
   "url": "https://anthropic.com/api",
   "category": "llm",
   "description": "API access to Claude models for chat, coding and agentic tasks.",
   "pricing": "Pay-per-token",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Coding and agentic features",
    "Long-context document work"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Image generation (not offered)",
    "Lowest-cost bulk tasks"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Google Gemini API",
   "url": "https://ai.google.dev",
   "category": "llm",
   "description": "Gemini models via Google AI Studio and API, incl. multimodal and long context.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + pay-per-token",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Multimodal (video/audio/image) input",
    "Cheap high-volume tasks",
    "Long context"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Free tier for sensitive data (free-tier data may be used to improve products)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "OpenRouter",
   "url": "https://openrouter.ai",
   "category": "llm",
   "description": "Unified API routing to hundreds of models across providers.",
   "pricing": "Pay-per-token plus a fee on credits",
   "score": 8,
   "bestFor": [
    "Comparing/switching models with one key",
    "Fallbacks across providers"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Lowest possible latency",
    "Enterprise contracts direct with a provider"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Groq",
   "url": "https://groq.com",
   "category": "llm",
   "description": "Very fast inference for open-weight models on Groq's LPU hardware.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + pay-per-token",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Low-latency chat/voice",
    "Open-weight models"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Frontier closed models (not offered)",
    "Fine-tuning workflows"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Figma Make",
   "url": "https://figma.com/make",
   "category": "design",
   "description": "Figma's prompt-to-app/prototype tool inside the Figma ecosystem.",
   "pricing": "Included in Figma plans (AI credits apply)",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Designers prototyping interactive ideas",
    "Teams living in Figma"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Production backend apps",
    "Non-Figma users"
   ],
   "verdicts": []
  },
  {
   "name": "Google Stitch",
   "url": "https://stitch.withgoogle.com",
   "category": "design",
   "description": "Google Labs tool generating UI designs and front-end code from prompts or images.",
   "pricing": "Free (Google Labs experiment)",
   "score": 6,
   "bestFor": [
    "Quick UI concepts",
    "Exporting to Figma"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Production-ready apps",
    "Long-term reliance (Labs experiment)"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a SaaS with payments",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Relume",
   "url": "https://relume.io",
   "category": "design",
   "description": "AI sitemap and wireframe generator for marketing sites, exporting to Figma/Webflow.",
   "pricing": "Free tier + paid plans; check official pricing page",
   "score": 7,
   "bestFor": [
    "Marketing site structure",
    "Agencies and Webflow users"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "App UIs and dashboards",
    "Custom code projects"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "ship"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Add AI features to an app",
     "verdict": "skip"
    },
    {
     "useCase": "Mobile app backend",
     "verdict": "skip"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "shadcn/ui",
   "url": "https://ui.shadcn.com",
   "category": "design",
   "description": "Open-source copy-in React components (Radix + Tailwind); the default UI kit for many AI builders.",
   "pricing": "Free, open-source",
   "score": 9,
   "bestFor": [
    "Consistent UI in AI-generated React apps",
    "Owning component code"
   ],
   "avoidFor": [
    "Non-React stacks",
    "People wanting a drag-and-drop designer"
   ],
   "verdicts": [
    {
     "useCase": "Build a polished landing page",
     "verdict": "ship"
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}