• Claude Code - AI agent that works in your terminal • Supabase - open-source, database • Next.js - web framework everyone uses • Vercel - hosting • Stripe - payments • Canva - design things quickly, even with zero design skills • Dribbble/Mobbin - great places to find UI inspiration • Namecheap - buy and manage your domain • GitHub - save progress and roll back mistakes • ChatGPT - brainstorming, planning, and problem-solving
High-performance (24+ GB VRAM, preferably with multiple GPUs)
• Kimi K2 - 1T params, 32B active. MoE beast • GLM-4.7 (Z AI) - 30B-A3B MoE, SWE-bench 73.8% • DeepSeek V3.2 - 671B / 37B active. Still the open-source king • Qwen3 235B-A22B - insane quality/cost ratio if you have the iron
Mid-range (16-24 GB VRAM / RAM)
• Qwen3 30B-A3B - punches way above its weight, stable on long context • Gemma 3 27B - Google's best open release yet • Nemotron 3 Nano 30B - Math500: 91%. Best-in-class if you need math
Lightweight models (8-16 GB RAM, can run without a dedicated GPU)
• Qwen3 8B / 4B / 1.7B - the best small model family right now • Gemma 3 4B - surprisingly capable on CPU • Phi-4 (14B) - Microsoft doing a lot with a little
The local AI stack is genuinely catching up to the cloud