Ben's Bites

We're 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. We've partnered with some of our 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 StackBlitz's 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 value of $279. Not to mention the $6k+ value from our other discounts. We picked these tools because they are incredibly easy to get started. There’s so many things you can build with this bundle—they’re extremely powerful. This is all in addition to the existing benefits of being a Pro member: full access to all our content, workshops, and 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: - Visit our perks page on the website - Click the tool(s) to redeem or get your code This bundle is only available for the next 24 hours! Sign up to Ben’s Bites Pro to access the deals: https://lnkd.in/dqwgAB8h

👀 ICYMI: New stuff we’ve launched Figma is where most of us do our thinking for building a product, and the current AI models are really good at creating software for a clearly thought-out idea. Our latest blog covers how to bring your ideas in a Figma design to life as an app. https://lnkd.in/dH3CvMBx We've also published a tactical guide on how you can uncover hidden revenue with pricing simulations Because let’s be honest, no one knows what to price your product, and we just go with the $20/mo plan blindly https://lnkd.in/dB4tqC9c Upcoming workshop: Memes & AI (sign up here: https://lnkd.in/d42k6p4k)

⚙️ Top new AI tools from this week

👀 What caught our eye… vibe coding games If you’re on Twitter, you have likely seen this. Pieter Levels (@levelsio) has been building a game coded mostly using AI. It started as a fun project, soon Levels started selling ads on the game space (planets, planes and blimps), already amounting to $50k+ revenue. This has again got people talking about “Oh, that’s not how game development works”, “AI coding is not secure”, “Soon, the codebase will be a mess that no one can understand”, and more. But it’s again missing the key point that a) it works and generates revenue—the key goal and b) all other things are also solvable by AI. Ask AI to fix vulnerabilities, ask it to break down the code into smaller parts, ask it to add new features. If you get stuck, ask for help from others. Just get working (vs comparing and complaining)

Windsurf, the AI code editor giving Cursor a run for its money, has new updates Windsurf Wave 4, the fourth iteration of their monthly-ish updates, introduces Previews Previews run your app in a browser, allowing you to select individual elements and send that context to the AI automatically It saves you time switching windows and copy-pasting errors from the console If you’re experimenting with AI coders, Windsurf is worth trying More info: https://lnkd.in/d9xgn4vd

Google is now using Gemini 2.0 in their AI overviews https://lnkd.in/desK-NrW AI overviews are wayyy better from the horrendous start, and with Gemini 2.0, we imagine more of this improvement They are also launching a new search experiment in Labs: AI Mode AI mode makes a plan based on your query, does multiple Google searches simultaneously and complies an answer using Gemini—much like Perplexity’s Pro search https://lnkd.in/dcVDsuiG

Microsoft is launching Dragon Copilot, an AI assistant for clinical workflow, so clinicians can spend less creating and searching documents Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-fw3Rse On the other side of the coin, ChatGPT saved someone’s life by telling them to go to the hospital when a doctor wasn’t readily available for consultation

GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s last non-reasoning model. It’s live as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users and coming to Plus and other plans in the next few weeks. The good part is that it is integrated with most ChatGPT features, like Search, Canvas, and image and file uploads. It’s trained on an order of magnitude extra compute and thus an extremely expensive model (it’s priced at $75/$150 in the API vs GPT 4o’s $2.5/$10 price point). But if history repeats, we could see 5x lower prices by year-end. It’s a much better model compared to the original GPT-4, and decently better compared to 4o—especially for writing. But for reasoning, maths and coding, it lags behind o1/o3. We are still testing this model, but in our opinion, it’s a base model waiting for further improvements like price cuts, reasoning boost and more. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dSuAzT68

According to The Wall Street Journal, no one knows how to price AI tools. Companies are leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table because they approach their pricing strategy like a game of pin the tail on the donkey If you're running an AI or SaaS business in 2025, maybe you know the feeling - you stare at your pricing page wondering if you're leaving money on the table or scaring away potential customers. Even frontier companies like OpenAI still don't have it figured out (https://lnkd.in/gaauap_8) But there's one method some top companies are using to solve pricing issues - and boost revenue by up to $500k annually, which is pretty insane. The method? Pricing simulations. It's like it sounds: instead of guessing what price is right for your product, you get to test different pricing strategies before implementing them. have you heard of pricing simulations? Would you try them out? * * * * * * I did a deep dive into pricing simulations from Orb - highly recommend reading up on it if product pricing's ever something you've wrestled with. I linked the article below

Google is giving away Gemini Code Assist in popular IDEs for free https://lnkd.in/eYZ3kNGT This free plan has a limit of 180,000 code completions per month (vs Copilot’s meagre 2000 free completions) Also, Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite is generally available now. You might need to update your code if you were using the experimental preview. Our Slack bot had some hiccups. https://lnkd.in/eqQidHMq