IonBin
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Dev, web & IT

Design, code, host and ship sites and internal tools, with an AI editor doing most of the typing.

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Short answer

Design in a collaborative design tool, build in an AI code editor, keep code in Git, deploy static sites to an edge host and services to an app platform, and add email and payments through APIs. Review every diff.

The stack · editorial pick

6 tools, one job

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Agent

Cursor

AI code editor that reads designs and writes code.

Agent platform API/CLI
Design

Figma

Source of truth for UI; readable by agents through its MCP server.

MCPAPI/CLI
Code

GitHub

Repos, reviews and deploy hooks.

MCPAPI/CLI
Static hosting

Cloudflare Pages

Deploys the site on every push.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
App hosting

Railway

APIs, workers and databases.

MCPAPI/CLI
Email

Resend

Transactional email from your code.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
Why these work together

IonBin's own site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Design, code and hosting connect through Git and official MCP servers, so an editor's agent can go from design to a deployed preview.

Connection methods are computed from each tool's recorded compatibility. "Manual" means no confirmed direct path yet.

How data flows
  1. Figma→Cursor Design context
    MCP (Figma server)
  2. Cursor→GitHub Commits and pull requests
    MCP (GitHub server)
  3. GitHub→Cloudflare Pages Git-connected deploy
    Git integration
  4. GitHub→Railway Git-connected deploy
    Git integration
  5. Cursor→Resend Email API calls in code
    MCP (Resend server)
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Workflows

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Fix site-audit issues as pull requestsAsk product analytics questions from your editorRun an A/B test with an AI pairChoose the model behind each automation stepHand coding tasks to an agent from your boardShip a small AI tool to productionSelf-host n8n or your own MCP serverGive AI agents secrets without exposing themProtect the machines and accounts your agents useAnswer calls with an AI voice agentTranscribe and summarize calls automaticallyPower a calculator with the Wolfram LLM APITurn sprint issues into booked timeLaunch a site from chat with HostingerRun n8n on a VPS managed from chatPublish Claude drafts to WordPress on KinstaRegister a domain and point it at Cloudflare PagesKeep sensitive documents out of AI chatsFix weak passwords from a health reportPackage your best prompts as reusable agent skillsGive agents read-only access to your notesAutomate a web task that has no APICheck deploys and logs from your coding agentRender many video variants from dataGet a weekly repo report from a scheduled agentCheck your agent setups for the lethal trifecta
Wiki

Learn the pieces

Needs, questions, models and concepts behind this stack.

Agent harness · ConceptAgent platforms · ServiceAgent skills (SKILL.md) · ConceptAI agent · ConceptAI app builders · ServiceAI coding agents and editors · ServiceAmazon Nova models (AWS) · ModelAPI (application programming interface) · ConceptAutomate with GitHub Actions · QuestionBackground agents · ConceptBatch processing (batch APIs) · ConceptBuild an internal tool without engineers · NeedCan I run AI models on my own computer or server? · QuestionCodex CLI, IDE extension or cloud: which should I use? · QuestionCohere models (Command, Embed, Rerank) · ModelDeepSeek models · ModelDo I need a vector database for my AI project? · QuestionEmbeddings · ConceptEvals (AI evaluations) · ConceptFine-tuning · ConceptHosting and deployment · ServiceHow do I add MCP servers to Cursor? · QuestionHow do I add search to a static website? · QuestionHow do I avoid getting locked into one AI vendor? · QuestionHow do I build my own tool with an AI coding agent? · QuestionHow do I connect AI agents to GitHub with MCP? · QuestionHow do I cut AI API costs without hurting quality? · QuestionHow do I deploy from GitHub to Railway or Cloudflare? · QuestionHow do I host an app and a database on Railway? · QuestionHow do I make my website easy for AI agents to use? · QuestionHow do I protect an AI agent from prompt injection? · QuestionHow does the Antigravity browser subagent work? · QuestionI need an AI agent to take actions without risking our systems · Needllms.txt · ConceptMistral models (Mistral AI) · ModelModel Context Protocol (MCP) · ConceptModel tiers (flagship, balanced, fast) · ConceptMuse models (Meta) · ModelOAuth · ConceptOpen-weight models · ConceptPhi models (Microsoft) · ModelPrompt caching · ConceptPrompt injection · ConceptQwen models (Alibaba) · ModelRate limits · ConceptShip code faster with AI · NeedShould I add an llms.txt file to my website? · QuestionShould my agent use MCP servers or command-line tools? · QuestionShould we fine-tune a model or just write better prompts? · QuestionSpeech-to-text APIs · ServiceSynthetic data · ConceptThe lethal trifecta (agent security) · ConceptTokens · ConceptTool use (function calling) · ConceptTransactional email · ServiceUnderstand product usage with AI · NeedUse GitHub as your business's source of truth · NeedVector database · ConceptWebhooks · ConceptWhat is Claude Code? · QuestionWhat is Cursor best for? · QuestionWhat is Google Antigravity? · QuestionWhat is OpenAI Codex? · QuestionWhat's the difference between ChatGPT and the OpenAI API? · QuestionWhen is a reasoning model worth the extra cost? · QuestionWhich AI platform should I use for what? · QuestionWhich Cloudflare products does a small business need? · Question
Swap-ins

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Stripe

Payments

Payments infrastructure with pay-as-you-go pricing. Payment Links let you sell without writing code, and Stripe's MCP server lets agents work with the Stripe API and docs.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
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Claude

AI assistant

Anthropic's AI assistant on web, desktop and mobile. Paid plans add more usage, Claude Code and Projects; every plan, Free included, can add custom connectors via remote MCP (Free is limited to one).

Agent platform API/CLIBulk import
SOPs

Cloudflare Workers

Serverless platform

Cloudflare's developer platform: Workers (serverless code), R2 (object storage), D1 (SQL database), Workers AI (models on serverless GPUs) and the Agents SDK, including hosting remote MCP servers.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
Build

Deepgram

Speech-to-text API

Speech recognition and voice-agent APIs. Flux adds model-integrated end-of-turn detection for voice agents; Nova covers conventional streaming and batch transcription.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
Build

Framer

Website builder

Visual website builder with design-tool controls, CMS and hosting. Instead of an MCP server, the Framer Agent setup connects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI to a project for CMS updates, localization and repeated edits.

API/CLIBulk import
Build

Google Antigravity

AI coding agent

Google's agent-first development platform: a desktop app for running agents in parallel, a CLI, IDE extensions and a Python SDK. Works with MCP servers; the desktop app adds a browser subagent that drives Chrome.

Agent platform API/CLI
Build

Lovable

AI app builder

Describe an app in plain English and get a working first version to iterate on. Lovable also offers an MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code and Cursor, and a REST API for deploying and managing projects.

MCPAPI/CLI
Build

OpenAI Codex

AI coding agent

OpenAI's coding agent: CLI, IDE extension, ChatGPT app and Codex cloud. Writes, reviews and debugs code; local surfaces share MCP configuration, and Codex Cloud tasks run in isolated workspaces.

Agent platform API/CLI
Build

PostHog

Product analytics

Product analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments and a data warehouse in one place, with an official MCP server so agents can query product data directly.

MCPAPI/CLIBulk import
Data

Compare at a glance

RoleToolAgent compatibilityPricingUsed by IonBin’s founder
AgentCursor Agent platform API/CLI freemium · $0 (limited); Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 per month; Teams from $30/user/month (checked Oct 17, 2026)—
DesignFigma MCPAPI/CLI freemium · $0 (Starter); Professional Full seat $16/month billed annually (checked Oct 17, 2026)Yes
CodeGitHub MCPAPI/CLI freemium · $0; Team $4 per user/month; Enterprise from $21 per user/month (checked Oct 17, 2026)Yes
Static hostingCloudflare Pages MCPAPI/CLIBulk import freemium · $0 (500 builds/month, 1 build at a time); higher limits on Cloudflare Pro and Business; Pages Functions billed as Workers (checked Oct 17, 2026)Yes
App hostingRailway MCPAPI/CLI freemium · $0 (30-day trial with $5 credits, then $1/month); Hobby $5, Pro $20 minimum monthly usage (checked Oct 17, 2026)Yes
EmailResend MCPAPI/CLIBulk import freemium · Free $0 (3,000 emails/month, 100/day); Pro $20/month (50,000); Scale $90/month (100,000); Enterprise custom (checked Oct 17, 2026)Yes