🗞 What's New: AI coding tools indie hackers won't stop talking about

Here's what you'll find in this issue:

• Replit just dropped v2 of their AI coding assistant, which is a big deal for anyone who wants to prototype quickly.
• Indie hackers are sounding off on the new release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet — probably the best AI coding model.
• This founder balances a SaaS, freelancing, and novel-writing. Here's how.

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Replit just dropped v2 of their AI coding assistant, which is a big deal for anyone who wants to prototype quickly.

Basically, you describe your app idea in plain English, then you sit back and watch as it generates a fully functioning web app.

It's not perfect (you can't import existing projects, and complex apps need human oversight) but we felt it was worth giving the $25/month tool its day in court:

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Anthropic just dropped Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and indie hackers are calling it the most capable coding AI yet.

The model can generate entire codebases in one shot, while its new command-line tool lets developers delegate tasks directly from their terminal.

And as a slick callback to an earlier section of this newsletter… Replit's founder credits Claude 3.7 Sonnet for powering Replit Agent v2:

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It's riskier to be all theory and no action than it is to try and fail.

Especially since today's tech lets you try small and fail small.

—@channingallen

Lucie Baratte turned her logo design expertise into Logology, a SaaS that helps startups get professional branding at affordable prices.

But after her co-founders departed and her marriage ended, she rebuilt her business and life by combining multiple revenue streams – teaching, freelancing, and even writing gothic novels.

If you wanna kill it in business without putting all your eggs in one basket, there's a lot to learn from her story:

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Special thanks to Yushavel Calderon for the graphic design, and to James Fleischmann for contributing a post.

—Channing