Orchids drops first vibe-coding IDE

If you've been following the rise of vibe coding, the tooling is officially catching up.

Orchids just unveiled what it calls the world's first vibe coding IDE, claiming the top spot on App Bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate end-to-end software development.

Packing the backend and browser into one IDE

Orchids claims its tool can build, watch, and listen on par with a human engineer.

Instead of acting as a simple code completion extension, Orchids packs an AI agent, a full IDE, a built-in browser, and direct integrations with Supabase and Stripe into a single local environment.

Because it runs locally, the team promises no vendor lock-in and none of the performance sandbox limitations typically found in purely web-based development environments.

Why it matters

Prompting code into an editor is easy, but wiring up databases, configuring payments, and cross-checking UI in a separate browser has always been where the friction lives. Orchids is basically trying to swallow that entire workflow whole.

For indie hackers and solo builders, this could drastically speed up going from an idea to a monetized web app. That said, we think dominating a synthetic benchmark is very different from managing real-world production codebases, so it remains to be seen whether its deep integrations hold up under edge cases.