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welcome back to the Leaderboard, the newsletter responsible for the storage warnings you keep getting. In today's issue: an all-in-one tool to kill your frankenstack, an app that bridges the gap between designers and developers, and an AI coder focused on speed and a deeper workflow.
Kill your frankenstack
Atono is a unified platform for product teams to plan, build, ship, and improve web apps. It brings together roadmapping, story writing, feature flags, bug tracking, and usage analytics so you’re not bouncing between six tools just to ship one feature.
🔥 Our take: Most teams are duct-taping together roadmaps in Notion, stories in Jira, flags in LaunchDarkly, and feedback in Slack—and then wondering why everything feels broken. Atono’s pitch is simple: put it all in one place and stop wasting time syncing tools that were never meant to play nice. Whether teams will give up their Frankenstack is another question, but the case for it is getting stronger.
Where mockups grow up
Moio is a design tool that lets designers build functional product flows—not just flat mockups. You can prototype real interactions, test user journeys, and bridge the gap between design and development without switching tools or handing off specs.
🔥 Our take: Most designers are stuck building pretty screens while the real product decisions get made later—usually without them. Moio tries to change that by letting you build flows that actually work, not just look good. It won’t replace your design tool, but it might finally give designers more control over what actually gets built.
Your software needs to be compliant to win deals. But you also need your engineers focused on building your product – NOT pulling SOC 2 evidence.
Enter a third option: make Vanta your first security hire.
Vanta uses AI and automation to get you compliant fast, simplify your audit process, and unblock deals — so you can prove to customers that you take security seriously.
Plus, Vanta scales right along with you, backed by support that's there when you need it, every step of the way.
That's why top startups like Cursor, Linear, and Replit use Vanta to get — and stay— secure.
Don’t SOC-block your best engineer. Set them free and get compliant fast with Vanta.
Another AI coder?
Kilo Code is a VS Code extension that lets you chat with your code and it actually listens. It can edit files, run commands, and move fast across your repo without asking for hand-holding. Built to feel like a dev that lives in your editor.
🔥 Our take: The AI coding space is crowded. Cursor and Windsurf are already carving up the market, and most new tools get shrugged off as clones. Kilo’s bet is on speed and deeper workflow control inside VS Code. Whether that’s enough to earn a spot in devs' stacks or just get filed under “cool but too late” remains to be seen.
The model makes all the difference
Windsurf is picking up momentum as an AI coding environment, but which models are actually powering your sessions? Alex Gap kicked off the convo asking what people are using—Claude 3.7 came up fast, especially for its ability to explain and rewrite code, while others mentioned DeepSeek, Mixtral, and Qwen as fast, cheap, and surprisingly capable.
If you’re building with Windsurf and just defaulting to GPT-4, this thread might open up a few options. Turns out, the model you choose could be doing a lot more (or less) than you think.
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