A GitHub Copilot alternative for people who are not in an editor
A GitHub Copilot alternative is a different tool rather than a better one: Copilot completes code inside an editor you are already using, and a builder takes a description and returns a whole running app, so it fits the moment before there is a file to type in.
Copilot suggests the next few lines while you type, inside an editor, in a file you already opened. For a developer working through a task that is genuinely useful and this page is not arguing against it.
Start from a working app
HyperBoard: Crypto Market Dashboard
prices, funding rates, open interest and liquidity across crypto perpetual markets, in three live tabs.
Open the template
Completion against generation
A completion tool makes an existing task faster. A builder removes the task. Those sound similar and are not: one assumes you have decided the structure and are implementing it, the other assumes you have an idea and no structure yet.
The part completion does not help with
Choosing the framework, wiring the build, finding a data source, handling the key, getting it deployed. None of that is typing, so faster typing does not touch it. It is also most of the time between an idea and something you can look at.
What you get instead here
A description returns a running preview, hosted, with exportable code. Market data comes from public endpoints that need no key, so the app reads real prices from the first render. Nothing below was typed in: it arrived from the exchange as the page rendered.
Who should not switch
If you spend your day implementing well understood work in a codebase you know, completion is the right kind of help and Copilot is a mature version of it. This aims at a different part of the job.
Live, right now, on this page
| Market | Price | Funding | 24h volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| BTC | $83,703.50 | 0.0013% | $344,447,532 |
| ETH | $2,687.35 | 0.0013% | $274,277,015 |
| SOL | $119.18 | 0.0007% | $84,823,612 |
| HYPE | $86.76 | 0.0013% | $3,054,440 |
Live market data, read at render from a keyless public endpoint. The same one a generated app here would call. Read at 2026-09-30 11:12 UTC; accurate as of that time and not afterwards.
Start from a working app
Open, change it, publish your own
OddsBoard
a live visualiser of Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets, in six views.
Open the template
Working templates built around what this page covers. Open one, change it, and publish your own.
- HyperBoard: Crypto Market Dashboard
prices, funding rates, open interest and liquidity across crypto perpetual markets, in three live tabs.
- Helix
a live trading terminal with a candlestick chart, a watchlist, an order ticket and open positions with live PnL.
- OddsBoard
a live visualiser of Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets, in six views.
Common questions
Does this replace Copilot in my editor?
No, and it is not trying to. Copilot helps while you type in a file. This helps before there is a file, by turning a description into a running app you can look at and then keep working on wherever you prefer.
Is the generated code any good?
It is ordinary readable code you can export and edit, not a locked proprietary artifact. Where it reads market data it calls documented public endpoints, so there is nothing hidden about where the numbers come from.
Can I use both?
That is the normal outcome. Generate the first running version from a description, export it, then use completion in your editor for the detailed work afterwards. They address different parts of the same job.
Related reading
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