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
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- ChatGPT 71
- Gemini API 62
- Claude API 46
- Grok 15
- OpenAI API 8
- DeepSeek 6
- Next.js 4
- GitHub Copilot 3
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Perplexity
- CiteScout — Checks buyer questions weekly through Perplexity and emails the Reddit and YouTube threads that AI answers cite most.“Made a waitlist page before writing any of the actual app. Does the idea come across?”
- EntityRise — Audits how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity mention, recommend and cite a company, and lists competitors recommended instead.“I built EntityRise to show whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity recommend your SaaS, or your competitor”
- AI Cite Who — Audits a website's visibility in AI search by checking which competitors are recommended for buyer questions and suggesting website changes.“AI Cite Who - Choosing an AI visibility tool as a small SaaS founder”
- AI Visibility Monitor — Queries ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini with a user's buying questions and reports how often a brand is mentioned, its ranking, competitors shown instead, and cited sources.“I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the same buying question — they disagreed. So I built a tool to track it”
- AskAIR — Routes each question to the AI model judged best for that kind of question and shows the answer in-app.“I added up what it costs to subscribe to 8 AI tools separately, so I built one app that picks the right one for each question”
- AI READY — Collects web content and notes, combines them with saved prompts, and sends the same prepared brief to multiple AI chat services.“I got tired of rebuilding the same context and prompts for every AI, so I built a Chrome extension”
- keylight — Tracks brand mentions in AI search engine answers and reports visibility scores per engine.“why ai visibility scores can be wrong: a counting bug we found in our own tracker”
- 7 years building an e-commerce… — Lets builders create and sell e-commerce websites with page building, product and subscription sales, orders and refunds, support tickets, and AI content generation.“7 years building an e-commerce website builder solo. Live since 2020, and I still can't stop adding features. When is it enough?”
- I built a free tool to see how… — Checks how a brand is mentioned across AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and produces a visibility report.“I built a free tool to see how AI search engines talk about your brand. Looking for your feedback.”
- RankonGEO — Tracks how a website ranks in AI assistant answers and offers keyword tracking and blog writing tools.“Free AI Visibility audit - drop your URL and I'll send you what's broken”
- ActionClip — Shows a compact widget beside selected text on macOS with suggested actions like translating, rewriting, and converting units.“I built iPhone-style text-selection smart menu I wanted (and Apple should have built) in macOS.”
- AI Master — Opens several third-party AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude from a single launcher page.“I built AI Master — one place to open 10 AI bots instantly”
- recommendedby — Asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity buyer-style questions per category and scores how often and how highly each product is recommended.“I asked ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity what they'd recommend in 15 SaaS categories (450 answers). Some beloved products are nearly invisible”
- ElixBrand — Monitors mentions of a brand across news, forums, social media, podcasts and YouTube, scores sentiment and toxicity with AI, and alerts teams to crises.“After years of building, we finally launched ElixBrand.”
- Figo — Monitors competitors' public ads, new pages, search rankings, and social posts and sends a weekly briefing summarizing changes.“I built Figo to turn competitor research into a weekly briefing”
Latest add-ons built for Perplexity
- W3AI — Explains the features available on the current AI chatbot page, with why they matter and example prompts.“I kept paying for AI tools but discovering features months late, so I built W3AI to explain them to me”
- Omnibound — Checks whether a website's pages are readable by AI search crawlers and lists technical fixes such as rendering, structured data and robots.txt rules.“We didn't realize our SaaS was invisible to ChatGPT until we started losing deals to competitors ranked worse than us on Google”
- WhileAI — Sends one typed prompt into several logged-in AI chat tabs at once and times each model's response.“[WhileAI] - type a prompt in one AI chat, it shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and DeepSeek in your own tabs”
- Keen — Rewrites a user's prompt inside AI chat sites, tailored to the task and target AI, with assumptions marked for verification.“I’ve tried a bunch of prompt enhancer tools, and I kept having the same problem: they take a simple prompt and turn it into the same giant, over-engineered template every time.”
- Breathable AI — Plays a recording of a real human breath when a user sends the phrase "take a deep breath" in an AI chat.“Introducing Breathable AI: Making AI human again. Type "take a deep breath" and hear a real human breath.”
- Smart Prompt Pro — Rewrites rough prompts into more detailed, structured prompts for AI chat platforms via a Chrome extension.“I built Smart Prompt Pro to turn rough AI prompts into structured prompts. Looking for honest feedback”
- ai-chat-exporter — Exports conversations from AI chat sites like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Markdown, JSON, HTML, PDF and PNG, with parsing done locally in the browser.“is there actually a need for yet another AI chat exporter (for chatgpt.com, claude.ai etc) ?”
- AI Chat Exporter: Local Vault — Saves AI chat conversations locally in Chrome and lets users search, organize, redact, and export them.“I got tired of losing useful AI conversations, so I built a local vault for them”
- AI Text Watermark Checker — Scans copied text for literal hidden Unicode characters such as zero-width, direction control, soft hyphen and special space code points, and cleans them locally.“I built a local-first scanner for hidden Unicode in copied AI text”
- Got tired of watching tables… — Converts Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ODF, RTF, EPUB, CSV and text PDFs into Markdown locally in the browser.“Got tired of watching tables die when I paste Word docs into ChatGPT, so I built a local converter”
- Hyper Context — Extracts the conversation context from one AI chat and injects it into a chat with a different AI model.“I got tired of constantly re-explaining my project/discussions to different AI models, so I built a free extension to instantly transfer your chat context between them.”
- Prompt Check — Scores AI chat prompts as they are typed in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity and flags missing elements like output format, scope and uncertainty fallback.“Built a browser extension that scores your AI prompts out of 100 before you send them — here's what a "perfect" score looks like”
- Ovrix Workspace — Adds a local browser sidebar for organizing saved AI chat conversations with folders, search, notes, tags and bookmarks.“I built a Chrome extension because I kept losing important AI conversations.”
- MoveChat — Exports an active AI chat, including attached docs and images, and resumes it on another AI platform, or saves it as PDF or Markdown.“I built an open-source tool to move your entire chat from Claude to ChatGPT in seconds”
- Built a Chrome extension that… — Detects sensitive data in prompts and replaces it with placeholders before the prompt is sent to AI chat tools.“Built a Chrome extension that anonymizes sensitive data before it reaches ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”
Pitched as alternatives to Perplexity
- Copper — Lets an AI assistant control a web browser on the user's behalf, as an open source alternative to Perplexity's browser control.“I built an Open source version of Perplexity Browser Control”
- Ping — Answers questions with web search results, presenting direct quotes from sources alongside AI summaries.“I built an Alternative to Perplexity, Google AI mode, and ChatGPT search”
- Rauno — Sends one question to several AI models that respond and critique each other's reasoning in a live debate, showing where they agree and disagree.“I’ve been building a multi-model AI tool for second opinions and fewer hallucinations”
- AiAssist SECURE — Puts multiple AI model providers behind one dashboard using the user's own API keys, with options to self-host or white-label.“My boss wanted me to use 12 AI subscriptions. So I built my own.”
- Hivemind — Searches top Reddit threads for a question and returns a single verdict weighted by upvoted comments.“I built a search engine completely powered by Reddit”
- vouch — Searches a user-chosen list of trusted websites by routing each query to the most relevant sites and caching their search selectors for fast replays.“vouch: open-source curated AI search for agents (BYOK + self-hosted)”