u/Consistent-Star-3906

Hey everyone,

For the last 6 months, I’ve been building ReCode, a dedicated AI web workbench for developers. But because I've been building in a silo, I need a brutal reality check.

I know inline IDE tools like Cursor and Copilot dominate right now. But my goal was to build a separate environment specifically for boring, multi-step tasks that usually clutter up an IDE chat tab. It also doesn't store any of your code (processed in memory) so isnt a vibe coding tool at all.

Here is what it handles right now:

Mock Data Factory: Parses your SQL/Prisma schemas and generates complex, relational mock data with proper foreign key mapping.

Code Auditor: Runs a deep health check for architecture smells, security flaws, and visualizes Big O complexity.

Universal Translator: Accurately migrates logic and whole files between languages (like Python to TS, C++ to Rust).

And there are more tools but they are less important.

My Dilemma:

I know developers hate breaking their flow.

Is context-switching to a standalone web app a total dealbreaker for you?

Would you ever use a separate tool for complex tasks like DB seeding or deep code audits, writing boring RegEx, translating CSS between its frameworks and so on, or is your IDE chat genuinely enough?

If I need to swallow my pride and pivot this into a VS Code extension, tell me. Be brutal. I’ve attached a few screenshots so you can see what the UI looks like. Thanks!

P.S. If anyone actually wants to poke around the UI and tell me why it sucks, the alpha is live here: recode-alpha.vercel.app

Hey everyone,

For the last 6 months, I’ve been building ReCode, a dedicated AI web workbench for developers. But because I've been building in a silo, I need a brutal reality check.

I know inline IDE tools like Cursor and Copilot dominate right now. But my goal was to build a separate environment specifically for boring, multi-step tasks that usually clutter up an IDE chat tab. It also doesn't store any of your code (processed in memory) so isnt a vibe coding tool at all.

Here is what it handles right now:

Mock Data Factory: Parses your SQL/Prisma schemas and generates complex, relational mock data with proper foreign key mapping.

Code Auditor: Runs a deep health check for architecture smells, security flaws, and visualizes Big O complexity.

Universal Translator: Accurately migrates logic and whole files between languages (like Python to TS, C++ to Rust).

And there are more tools but they are less important.

My Dilemma:

I know developers hate breaking their flow.

Is context-switching to a standalone web app a total dealbreaker for you?

Would you ever use a separate tool for complex tasks like DB seeding or deep code audits, writing boring RegEx, translating CSS between its frameworks and so on, or is your IDE chat genuinely enough?

If I need to swallow my pride and pivot this into a VS Code extension, tell me. Be brutal. I’ve attached a few screenshots so you can see what the UI looks like. Thanks!

P.S. If anyone actually wants to poke around the UI and tell me why it sucks, the alpha is live here: recode-alpha.vercel.app

Hey everyone,

For the last 6 months, I’ve been building ReCode, a dedicated AI web workbench for developers. But because I've been building in a silo, I need a brutal reality check.

I know inline IDE tools like Cursor and Copilot dominate right now. But my goal was to build a separate environment specifically for boring, multi-step tasks that usually clutter up an IDE chat tab. It also doesn't store any of your code (processed in memory) so isnt a vibe coding tool at all.

Here is what it handles right now:

Mock Data Factory: Parses your SQL/Prisma schemas and generates complex, relational mock data with proper foreign key mapping.

Code Auditor: Runs a deep health check for architecture smells, security flaws, and visualizes Big O complexity.

Universal Translator: Accurately migrates logic and whole files between languages (like Python to TS, C++ to Rust).

And there are more tools but they are less important.

My Dilemma:

I know developers hate breaking their flow.

Is context-switching to a standalone web app a total dealbreaker for you?

Would you ever use a separate tool for complex tasks like DB seeding or deep code audits, writing boring RegEx, translating CSS between its frameworks and so on, or is your IDE chat genuinely enough?

If I need to swallow my pride and pivot this into a VS Code extension, tell me. Be brutal. I’ve attached a few screenshots so you can see what the UI looks like. Thanks!

P.S. If anyone actually wants to poke around the UI and tell me why it sucks, the alpha is live here: recode-alpha.vercel.app

Hey everyone,

For the last 6 months, I’ve been building ReCode, a dedicated AI web workbench for developers. But because I've been building in a silo, I need a brutal reality check.

I know inline IDE tools like Cursor and Copilot dominate right now. But my goal was to build a separate environment specifically for boring, multi-step tasks that usually clutter up an IDE chat tab. It also doesn't store any of your code (processed in memory) so isnt a vibe coding tool at all.

Here is what it handles right now:

Mock Data Factory: Parses your SQL/Prisma schemas and generates complex, relational mock data with proper foreign key mapping.

Code Auditor: Runs a deep health check for architecture smells, security flaws, and visualizes Big O complexity.

Universal Translator: Accurately migrates logic and whole files between languages (like Python to TS, C++ to Rust).

And there are more tools but they are less important.

My Dilemma:

I know developers hate breaking their flow.

Is context-switching to a standalone web app a total dealbreaker for you?

Would you ever use a separate tool for complex tasks like DB seeding or deep code audits, writing boring RegEx, translating CSS between its frameworks and so on, or is your IDE chat genuinely enough?

If I need to swallow my pride and pivot this into a VS Code extension, tell me. Be brutal. I’ve attached a few screenshots so you can see what the UI looks like. Thanks!

P.S. If anyone actually wants to poke around the UI and tell me why it sucks, the alpha is live here: recode-alpha.vercel.app

Hey everyone,

For the last 6 months, I’ve been building ReCode, a dedicated AI web workbench for developers. But because I've been building in a silo, I need a brutal reality check.

I know inline IDE tools like Cursor and Copilot dominate right now. But my goal was to build a separate environment specifically for boring, multi-step tasks that usually clutter up an IDE chat tab. It also doesn't store any of your code (processed in memory) so isnt a vibe coding tool at all.

Here is what it handles right now:

Mock Data Factory: Parses your SQL/Prisma schemas and generates complex, relational mock data with proper foreign key mapping.

Code Auditor: Runs a deep health check for architecture smells, security flaws, and visualizes Big O complexity.

Universal Translator: Accurately migrates logic and whole files between languages (like Python to TS, C++ to Rust).

And there are more tools but they are less important.

My Dilemma:

I know developers hate breaking their flow.

Is context-switching to a standalone web app a total dealbreaker for you?

Would you ever use a separate tool for complex tasks like DB seeding or deep code audits, writing boring RegEx, translating CSS between its frameworks and so on, or is your IDE chat genuinely enough?

If I need to swallow my pride and pivot this into a VS Code extension, tell me. Be brutal. I’ve attached a few screenshots so you can see what the UI looks like. Thanks!

P.S. If anyone actually wants to poke around the UI and tell me why it sucks, the alpha is live here: recode-alpha.vercel.app