Digest #539 | Build with 20k+ others - Become a Pro member
Hey everyone,
I’m excited to introduce the Ben’s Bites Builder Bundle (too many b’s?!)—only available for the next 24 hours!
It’s never been a better time to be non-technical. I've partnered with some of my favourite AI coding tools to offer BB Pro members a deal you can’t get elsewhere.
Pro members of Ben's Bites will now get:
3 months free of Bolt Pro
3 months free of Create Pro
3 months free of Lovable Starter
40% off Replit Core for your first 3 months
A combined saving of $279 — plus a further $6,000+ in discounts for other tools we offer with Pro membership.
I picked these tools because they are incredibly easy to get started. There are so many things you can build with this bundle—web apps, mobile apps, MVPs, monetisable business ideas… the list goes on.
This is all in addition to the existing benefits of being a Pro member: full access to all our content, live workshops, and private community.
Deal details:
You must be a new customer of these products to get the deal
You must be a Ben’s Bites Pro member (yearly or lifetime)—yes, if you sign up today you’ll get the deals 🙂
Redeeming:
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Visit our perks page on the website
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This bundle is only available for the next 24 hours!
On to today’s email!
TLDR; inside today’s newsletter
Chinese startup’s impressive agent, new models from Mistral and Google
4th edition of top 100 AI apps
ICYMI: Grok DeepSearch tutorials and more from us
Top discussion from our community
7 new amazing tools plus some Severance memes
4 posts to read and other news
to-do’s
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🔎 Trends & news
Agents that use your browser/computer will be big in 2025. Manus AI, a new browser agent, gives a mix of Claude + Qwen models the ability to perform 29 different actions in your browser. Manus makes crisp notes for its plans, actions and results, making it very easy to observe. This combination of powerful models, deep access to the browser and the UI is better than what we’ve yet seen from OpenAI’s Operator.
I just got access, so i’m doing a live ‘unboxing’ workshop on Thursday to test it out, show its use cases and see what we can build.
a16z released its 4th edition of top 100 consumer AI apps across web and mobile. ChatGPT is on a growth run, and Deepseek joins it at number 2 for now. Video AI apps are dominating the top charts, with vibe coding tools just entering the fray now.
Two AI model launches flew under the radar last week. Both target different backbone tasks of modern AI applications and smoke the old competition.
Mistral released a new model to replace OCR. It turns scanned PDFs into typed text for easier use and processes 1000 pages per $.
Google released a new text embedding model to power RAG apps. It’s still experimental, but it performs 10% better than other embedding models on the market.
Paragon introduced ActionKit, an API that lets AI agents automate work in external apps like CRMs and email. With a few lines of code, add 1000+ integration actions to your AI agent product. ActionKit is LLM agnostic, white-labelled, and has agent-optimized tool descriptions & parameter metadata.*
Reflection AI is the new entry in the list of autonomous coding startups. This one is headed by researchers from Google Deepmind, who worked on AlphaGo and Gemini.
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👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched
Grok, Elon’s AI baby, comes with a feature called DeepSearch that can look up posts from Twitter and use LLMs to think over them. That opens possibilities like using it to do product research.
Continuing our Bolt series, we now have a tutorial on how to build a to-do list app using Bolt. Perfect for getting started.
We also put together a recap from our latest Replit workshop and a sneak peek of what’s Replit cooking in their early access of Agent V2.
Upcoming workshops:
Tomorrow - Memes & AI. (sign up)
13th March - Manus AI live ‘unboxing’ (sign up)
27th March - Use AI to launch a website with B12. (sign up)
💬 Inside the community this week
Becoming pro comes with access to our Slack community that builds and learns together. Here are some chats from over the weekend:
Keshav shared his logs from dealing with an error when vibe coding plus some tips for exporting code and building Chrome extensions.
Seth shared part 2 of his blog on building an MCP server for stock analysis. (link)
Ritesh is looking for SEO advice for his AI for Dentists tool. (link)
Este wants recommendations for internal support email automation. (link)
Georges asked about effective ways to embed AI into daily knowledge work beyond coding. (link)
Prasad received suggestions for transcription tools for videos (link)
Mario, Wyatt & Vivek talked about NotebookLM Plus use cases (link)
Eric plans to learn the technical details of coding with AI. Got any recs for him? (link)
Thomas asked if people use both Cursor and Replit on the same projects. (link)
Sean asked for recommendations on GenAI tools to teach non-coding business students. (link)
Wyatt cautioned about taking AI papers aimed at the current administration with a grain of salt. (link)
Ksenia asked for tips on learning Figma faster with AI. (link)
Join the community to browse through replies or ask your own questions. Become a pro member today!
⚙️ Top new tools
AssemblyAI: Build voice-driven apps with the most accurate Speech AI.*
Auren - Emotionally intelligent AI for improving human lives.
Firecrawl - Create llms.txt file for any website.
Blooper - Pre-production made simple with instant storyboards, venue suggestions, and automatic pitch decks.
Muse by Sudowrite - The first AI made for fiction, designed for authors.
Lumon - Create your own Severance memes based on your Twitter profile.
Colossal - Global directory of AI agents that can perform API calls.
BaansAI - Design ad banners with your logo and custom text.
More tools here →
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📜 Interesting posts
How to spot a rocketship startup in AI.
Microsoft's secret model, MAI, reportedly performs neck and neck with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Llama 4 from Meta might have voice capabilities.
Top 8 AI search engines are bad at citing news.
📌 To-dos
That’s it for today. Feel free to hit reply and share your thoughts. 👋
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