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Perplexity

How vibe coders and indie builders use Perplexity: 81 projects built with it and 38 built for it since May 2026.

Projects built with it
81
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.5%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
38

Share of stated stacks, per week

Week of May 4: 1.0%Week of May 11: 0.8%Week of May 18: 1.1%Week of May 25: 0.1%Week of Jun 1: 0.6%Week of Jun 8: 0.1%Week of Jun 15: 0.6%Week of Jun 22: 0.5%Week of Jun 29: 0.5%Week of Jul 6: 0.7%Week of Jul 13: 0.5%Week of Jul 20: 0.1%Week of Jul 27: 0.0%Week of Aug 3: 0.9%Week of Aug 10: 0.6%Week of Aug 17: 1.1%Week of Aug 24: 0.8%Week of Aug 31: 0.3%Week of Sep 7: 0.5%Week of Sep 14: 0.4%Week of Sep 21: 0.5%Week of Sep 28: 0.7%

Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.

Often used with

  1. ChatGPT 71
  2. Gemini API 62
  3. Claude API 46
  4. Grok 15
  5. OpenAI API 8
  6. DeepSeek 6
  7. Next.js 4
  8. GitHub Copilot 3

What's built with it

  1. AI search visibility trackers 39
  2. SEO audit tools 9
  3. AI chat organizers and prompt libraries 8
  4. LLM gateways and model comparison 4
  5. AI marketing content generators 3
  6. AI tool directories and usage trackers 3

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