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22 tools tracked 2 rankings in testing Pricing checked Oct 18, 2026
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All rankings → Round 1 results · no winner yet
Best AI tool to turn long videos into shorts
Which tool turns one long video into the best ready-to-post vertical shorts with the least manual work?
CapCutDescriptKlapOpusClipSubmagicVizard
Testing in progress Best tool to vibe-code a web app from scratch
Starting from an empty project and one prompt, which tool gets a working, deployed web app fastest and with the fewest fixes?
Bolt.newClaude CodeOpenAI CodexCursorGitHub CopilotLovableReplit Agentv0 by VercelWindsurf (Devin Desktop)
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AI video
Generate, edit, clip, caption and dub video with AI.
Vibe coding
Build apps by describing them: AI app builders, editors and coding agents.
AI for gaming
Game assets, NPCs, clipping gameplay and game dev copilots.
AI agents
Agents that browse, research and do work for you.
New releases
Fresh launches from Show HN, not yet reviewed by us- Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping Oct 18, 2026 · 227 pts on HN
- rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents Oct 16, 2026 · 59 pts on HN
- Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents Oct 14, 2026 · 47 pts on HN
- I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change Oct 14, 2026 · 119 pts on HN
- Jevcrawl – A web crawler for AI agents with no LLM in the crawl loop Oct 13, 2026 · 21 pts on HN
- Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine Oct 13, 2026 · 121 pts on HN
- Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add Oct 13, 2026 · 77 pts on HN
- Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript Oct 13, 2026 · 32 pts on HN