Google Quietly Dropped 12 Free AI Tools. Developers Should Probably Care.
Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is free and source-available on Github. Star git-lrc to help devs discover the project. Do give it a try and share your feedback. A few years ago the AI conversation looked like this. "Should I pay $20?" "No, $200." "Actually this new tool is $39/month." My wallet started looking like it had gone through a startup funding winter. Then Google quietly walked into the room and started dropping free AI tools like Oprah handing out cars. "You get an AI IDE!" "You get a workflow builder!" "You get a GitHub coding agent!" ...except nobody really noticed because Google announced them across five different events, Labs pages, GitHub repos, and random blog posts. So I spent some time collecting the ones developers will actually find useful. No "AI that writes your wedding speech." No "AI that guesses your spirit animal." Just tools that can actually help you ship software. Bookmark this one. 1. Pomelli https://labs.google/pomelli If you've ever launched a side project, you already know the painful truth. Building the product is fun. Writing 37 LinkedIn posts explaining the product... not so much. Pomelli takes your website, understands what your product does, builds a brand profile, then generates social posts around it. Think of it as hiring an intern that actually reads your landing page before tweeting. Would I let it post automatically? No. Would I happily let it generate the first draft so I don't stare at a blinking cursor? Absolutely. Perfect for: Indie hackers SaaS founders Open-source maintainers pretending they enjoy marketing 2. Stitch https://stitch.withgoogle.com Remember when designing an app meant opening Figma... ...moving a button 3 pixels... ...asking for feedback... ...moving it back 3 pixels? Stitch skips a surprising amount of that. You describe the interface. Or upload a sketch. Or even paste a wireframe. It generates modern UI designs and can even produce