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Whether you are excited about it or not, AI is not just a passing trend — it's here to stay. AI now helps developers write code, desi...
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do you think mintlify is worth the 150/month when there are so many great open source alternatives?
Great question — I agree the price is a bit steep, but it depends on what you value!
Mintlify's out of the box docs look better than most of the open-source options out there by default. However, if you are able and willing to customize them, then I think an open-source solution is completely viable.
fair enough, I think im just too broke for that
Yeah I hear that, what do you use currently? The Sliplane docs look great 😊
thank you :D thats astro starlight. Was super easy to setup and customize. I think I built that entire page in <2 hours including the data migration!
can you name a few open source alternatives ?
I use Astro starlight for this: docs.sliplane.io, i think scalar and vrite are both also open source
you're spot on, @code42cate. I've worked at Mintlify and, above all, companies like it for their customer support. there are awesome open-source alternatives, like Fumadocs — proud sponsor — or Starlight by Astro — there's even a Mintlify inspired theme for that framework. IMHO it really depends on your needs.
Interesting! Wouldn’t have guessed that support is the main point
It's nice to see you've mentioned the replacements as well. Thanks, mate! Here are more cool AI developer tools (All Free):
This is a great list, I haven't heard of a few of these. Excited to check them out!
Try them out! They're all lifesavers :)
Are there any tools that I am missing and I should check out?
This is amazing
Fantastic article!
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nice article.....
awesome list, @burcs! at Bucket, we recently experimented with Cursor — and enjoy using it. We also started working on an AI feature to automatically clean up stale feature flags.
hopefully we'll make to the list in 2026!
One small step in AI, one giant leap for feature flags.
flo merian ・ Apr 1
cursor is not free. i uninstalled after 5 mins 😞. If you can tell any solution then reply please
in this post, @burcs suggests Windsurf as an alternative. you could consider Zed, too.
hope this helps!