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Convex
✓ verifiedFreemium
TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
692K visits/mo20K saves
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Angular.dev
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Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
1.1M visits/mo
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Magic Patterns
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI prototyping tool that generates UI matching your design system, letting product teams test features fast.
242K visits/mo3.8K saves
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Softgen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns plain-English prompts into deployable full-stack web apps with a managed database and full code ownership.
103K visits/mo16K saves
Pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
No public pricing
Hobby: FREE
Plus: $19/month
Enterprise: Custom
No public pricing
Starting plan: $25/mo (entry-level tier per pricing comparison)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
- ✦Built-in control flow and deferrable views
- ✦Server-side rendering and hydration
- ✦First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
- ✦AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
- ✦In-browser tutorials and playground
- ✦AI-powered app generation
- ✦Text-to-code conversion
- ✦Full-stack Next.js app creation
- ✦Custom domain deployment
- ✦Automatic SSL certificate provisioning
- ✦Fork versions of your app
- ✦AI UI generation from prompts
- ✦Match existing styling and design systems
- ✦Rapid, high-fidelity prototyping
- ✦Live team editing and sharing
- ✦Enterprise security and compliance
- ✦Builds full-stack apps from plain-English descriptions
- ✦Choice of 12+ underlying AI models
- ✦Managed Supabase database included
- ✦GitHub code export on all plans
- ✦One-click Vercel deployment
- ✦Credits that don't expire while subscribed
Use cases
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Generating SaaS templates
- →Creating local business websites (e.g., restaurant templates)
- →Building blogs and news sites
- →Developing mobile app landing pages
- →Creating chatbots
- →Prototype new product features
- →Test designs with customers
- →Build design-system-consistent mockups
- →Non-technical founders shipping an MVP quickly
- →Agencies delivering client projects faster
- →Developers prototyping SaaS ideas without boilerplate setup
- →Solo builders launching small businesses without hiring engineers
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