Best dev tools

The email API that indie developers actually enjoy using. Clean docs, React Email for templates, and a dashboard that shows you what's happening.

OpenAI's terminal coding agent. Part of the Agents SDK and built for multi-agent orchestration.

Anthropic's terminal-native coding agent. Runs directly in your shell, makes multi-file changes, and iterates autonomously with full codebase context.

Project management for people who actually ship. Fast, opinionated, and a pleasure to use daily.

Google's official open-source terminal agent. Released April 2026. ReAct reasoning loop, MCP support, 1M token context window, and Apache 2.0 licence.

Microsoft and GitHub's AI coding assistant. Coding Agent mode autonomously handles GitHub issues — from code edit through to a pull request.

The developer-first automation platform. Self-hostable, open source, and the most technically flexible agent-building tool available.

VS Code but with an AI that actually understands your codebase.

Cognition's fully autonomous software engineer. Operates in a sandboxed cloud environment with browser, terminal, and code editor access.