Rajiv Ayyangar

AI tools I'm using now

I was recently talking with a group of founders, and we went around sharing tools we're using now. Posting my notes for our community here - would love to know what else people are using!


Voice AI toolkit:

- Vapi

- Pipecat (open source)


Meeting notes without a bot:

- Granola


Fast voice input (stop typing!)

- Wispr Flow

- Aqua -  (newer, has contextual awareness)


Agentic coding assistants:

- Cursor

- Windsurf (getting tons of traction, especially w/ early startups)

- Devin - has way fewer reviews and shoutouts (reviews by startups) on Product Hunt - but another founder spoke highly of it in the roundtable

- Codebuff (formerly manicode) - AI agent in terminal 


Other coding tools

- Graphite - AI code reviewer - we use this and like it a lot


Ad creative

- Krea - came recommended by a founder in the roundtable


Design / vibecoding

v0.dev - Vercel's frontend design (many designers now work with V0 and Cursor/windsurf instead of Figma)

Replit.com , Bolt.new , Lovable.dev - coding agents for non-coders to stand up quick projects

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I’ve tried a couple from here, like Cursor and Wispr Flow, but a few are new to me (definitely checking out Windsurf and Granola). Thank you for sharing! 🙌

Diego Rodriguez

One of the founders of Krea here. Curious that you use Krea for Ad assets—is it mostly for that or you use it for something else?

Rajiv Ayyangar

@asciidiego I don’t personally use it but the founder of a consumer goods co mentioned they use Krea and really like it!

Artin Bogdanov

I haven't tried most of these yet, definitely need to! Also, for the voice tools, you should check out Dia (https://github.com/nari-labs/dia). They just released it recently. Also, soon, you'll have to add SunApp.ai to that list too. 😉

Reid Kimball

Great list! I’ve heard of some and some are new I want to check out like Granola, Vapi, Krea.

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