Curated Stack

The FrankX Stack

April 2026 — tools I actually use and recommend.

Battle-tested across shipped products. Affiliate links help keep this site free — they never affect what makes the list.

AI App Templates

Starters worth cloning

Production-grade scaffolds that save you weeks.

Vercel AI Chatbot

Full-featured Next.js AI chatbot template with streaming, auth, and persistence built-in.

Next.jsVercel AI SDKFree

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v0 by Vercel

AI-powered UI generation. Describe a component, get production-ready React and Tailwind.

AI UIFree tier

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Supabase AI Chat

RAG template with pgvector, embeddings, and doc search. Ship a knowledge assistant in a day.

SupabaseRAGOpen source

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Claude Artifacts Template

Starter for building Claude-powered apps with artifact streaming and tool use.

AnthropicOpen source

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LangChain Template Hub

Production patterns for RAG, agents, and evals. Good reference architectures to learn from.

LangChainMulti-agent

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Agent Frameworks

Orchestration primitives

The frameworks I reach for when building autonomous systems.

Claude Agent SDK

Anthropic’s official agent framework. Tool use, MCP, subagents, and deep orchestration primitives.

AnthropicProduction

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Mastra

TypeScript-native AI framework with agents, workflows, and evals. The Next.js of agent frameworks.

TypeScriptOpen source

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OpenAI Agents SDK

Official OpenAI agents framework. Clean primitives for handoffs, guardrails, and tracing.

OpenAIPython

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LangGraph

Graph-based agent orchestration with state machines, cycles, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

LangChainGraph

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CrewAI

Multi-agent coordination with roles, tasks, and processes. Simple mental model for crew-based workflows.

Multi-agentPython

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Infrastructure & Hosting

Where it runs

From edge functions to GPU clusters — the boring stuff that matters.

Railway

One-click deploy for anything with a Dockerfile. The easiest way to run backends and side projects.

DeployAffiliate

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Vercel

The Next.js cloud. Edge functions, preview deploys, and the best DX for frontend work.

EdgeFree tier

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Cloudflare Workers

Global edge compute with sub-millisecond cold starts. Durable Objects and Workers AI included.

EdgeFree tier

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Modal

Serverless GPU for Python. Spin up H100s from a decorator, pay only for inference time.

GPUServerless

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RunPod

GPU cloud with community and secure instances. The cheapest way to fine-tune and host models.

GPUAffiliate

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Hetzner

Budget dedicated servers in Germany. Unreasonably cheap for anything CPU-heavy and always-on.

BudgetEU

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Databases & Memory

State and recall

Vectors, rows, caches, and everything agents need to remember.

Supabase

Postgres with pgvector, auth, storage, and realtime. The open-source Firebase I actually use.

Open sourceAffiliate

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Neon

Serverless Postgres with branching. Clone your database like a git branch for every preview deploy.

ServerlessPostgres

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Turso

Edge SQLite built on libSQL. Millisecond reads globally, perfect for user-scoped data.

EdgeSQLite

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Upstash Redis

Serverless Redis with HTTP access. Perfect for rate limiting, queues, and edge caching.

ServerlessCache

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Pinecone

Managed vector database. When you need search at billions of vectors without operating infra.

VectorManaged

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Mem0

Memory layer for agents with user, session, and agent scopes. Drop-in persistence for LLM apps.

Open sourceAgent memory

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Developer Tools

Daily drivers

The editors and CLIs that ship my code.

Cursor

AI-first code editor forked from VS Code. Composer and agent mode make rewrites feel trivial.

EditorAI

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Claude Code

Anthropic’s CLI agent. Lives in your terminal, reads your repo, ships real PRs.

AnthropicTerminal

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Continue.dev

Open-source Copilot alternative. Bring your own model, configure your own rules.

Open sourceEditor

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Cline

Autonomous VS Code agent that reads, writes, and executes across your workspace.

VS CodeOpen source

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Bolt.diy

Open-source Bolt with bring-your-own-model. Full-stack apps from a prompt, locally.

Open sourceWeb builder

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OSS & Self-Host

Run it yourself

Open-source stacks when you want full control.

Ollama

Run LLMs locally with one command. Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and everything in between.

LocalOpen source

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OpenWebUI

ChatGPT alternative UI you can self-host. Multi-model, RAG, and function calling out of the box.

Self-hostOpen source

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LibreChat

Multi-model team chat with plugins, agents, and auth. Great for internal AI tooling.

Self-hostTeam

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Dify

Visual LLM app builder. Design flows, prompts, and RAG pipelines without writing glue code.

VisualOpen source

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n8n

Workflow automation with AI nodes. Zapier with code, self-hostable, and agent-ready.

WorkflowOpen source

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Updated April 2026 · Built by Frank · Curated, not sponsored.