Introducing codingrules.ai: A Hub for AI Coding Best Practices

We're thrilled to announce the initial release of codingrules.ai - a centralized platform designed to help developers maximize the potential of AI coding assistants like Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and Cline. Our mission is to create a thriving ecosystem where developers can discover, share, and evaluate coding rules that make AI tools more effective for everyone.

The Problem We're Solving

As AI coding tools become increasingly popular, developers face several challenges:

• Fragmented Knowledge: Best practices are scattered across documentation, forums, and social media
• Inconsistent Quality: No standardized way to evaluate the effectiveness of different coding rules
• Tool-Specific Silos: Limited cross-pollination of useful patterns between different AI coding assistants
• Discovery Difficulty: Finding relevant rules for specific coding scenarios is time-consuming

codingrules.ai addresses these challenges by providing a community-driven platform where developers can discover, share, and evaluate coding rules specifically designed for AI coding tools.

Key Features in Our Initial Release

🔍 Intuitive Search & Discovery

Our powerful search functionality allows you to quickly find relevant rules with:

• Text-based search: Find rules matching specific keywords or phrases
• Advanced filters: Filter by AI tool, programming language, category, and more
• Related rules: Discover connected rules through our tag-based recommendation system

This means you'll spend less time searching and more time coding. For example, if you're working with React and Copilot, you can instantly filter for rules that other React developers have found effective with Copilot.

⬆️ Community Curation

The quality of rules is maintained through our community voting system:

• Upvote valuable rules: Help surface the most effective practices
• Popular sorting: Easily find the highest-rated rules
• Community validation: Gain confidence in rule quality through peer review

When you find a rule that works well, your upvote helps other developers discover it too. This collective intelligence ensures that the best practices rise to the top, creating a virtuous cycle of quality.

📚 Personal Collections

Organize your favorite rules for quick access:

• Save to favorites: Bookmark rules you find useful
• Custom collections: Organize rules into personalized categories
• Quick access: Easily retrieve your saved rules when needed

Create collections for different projects, languages, or workflows. For instance, you might have one collection for TypeScript best practices and another for Python data science projects, ensuring you always have the right rules at your fingertips.

🤝 Contribution System

Help expand our knowledge base:

• Rule suggestions: Submit new rules to share your expertise
• Tool suggestions: Propose new AI tools to be included in the platform
• Tag suggestions: Create new categories to help organize content
• Reporting system: Flag problematic content to maintain quality

Contributing is simple and rewarding. Found a pattern that makes your AI assistant more effective? Share it in minutes through our intuitive submission form. Your contributions help build a more comprehensive resource for the entire developer community.

👤 User Profiles

Track your activity and contributions:

• Profile pages: Showcase your contributions and activity
• Contribution stats: See your impact on the community
• Activity history: Review your interactions with the platform

Build your reputation as an AI coding expert as you contribute valuable rules and help curate the platform. Your profile becomes a testament to your expertise and community involvement.

🔌 MCP Servers

We're excited to introduce support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, extending our platform beyond coding rules:

• Discover MCP servers: Find and explore community-contributed MCP servers that enhance AI assistant capabilities
• Server guides: Access tool-agnostic and tool-specific guides for effectively using MCP servers
• Community curation: Vote on the most useful servers and suggest improvements
• Contribution system: Submit new servers or updates to existing ones
• Reporting mechanism: Help maintain quality through our reporting system

MCP servers allow AI assistants to access external tools and data sources, dramatically extending what your AI can do. For example, an MCP server might let your AI assistant fetch weather data, search documentation, or integrate with APIs - all without leaving your coding environment.

This feature brings the same community-driven approach we've applied to coding rules to the emerging MCP ecosystem, helping developers discover the most effective ways to extend their AI tools.

Why Contribute?

Contributing to codingrules.ai offers benefits beyond just helping others:

🌟 Personal Benefits

• Recognition: Build your reputation in the AI coding community
• Improved AI interactions: Refine your own understanding of effective AI prompting
• Learning opportunity: Discover new techniques as you formulate your contributions

🤝 Community Benefits

• Knowledge sharing: Help fellow developers overcome common challenges
• Collective improvement: Raise the standard of AI coding for everyone
• Cross-pollination: Break down silos between different AI tool ecosystems

💼 Professional Benefits

• Demonstrate expertise: Showcase your AI tool knowledge
• Build connections: Connect with like-minded developers
• Stay current: Keep up with evolving best practices in AI-assisted development

The Technology Behind codingrules.ai

Our platform is built with a modern tech stack designed for performance, scalability, and developer experience:

Frontend

• Next.js (App Router): For server-side rendering and optimized routing
• React 19: Leveraging the latest React features for optimal performance
• TypeScript: Ensuring type safety throughout the codebase
• Tailwind CSS v4: For rapid UI development with the latest styling capabilities
• Shadcn UI (canary): Providing accessible, customizable components

Backend

• Supabase: Providing PostgreSQL database, authentication, and storage
• Row Level Security: Ensuring data protection at the database level
• Server Components + Server Actions: For secure, efficient data operations
• TypeScript + Zod: For end-to-end type safety and validation

What's Next?

While we're excited about this release, we're already working on further enhancements:

• Enhanced Search: Advanced search operators and improved performance
• Private Features: Support for private rules and collections for individual users and teams
• Rule Generator: AI-powered rule generation based on package.json files, leveraging existing application rules
• Team Collaboration: Comprehensive team support with shared collections, rules, and permissions management

Join Our Community Today

codingrules.ai is built by developers, for developers. Here's how you can get started:

1. Create an account: Sign up in seconds to access all features
2. Explore existing rules: Browse our growing collection of community-contributed rules
3. Save your favorites: Start building your personal collection of effective rules
4. Share your knowledge: Submit your first rule and help others improve their AI coding experience

Your contributions, no matter how small, help build a more comprehensive resource for everyone. Whether you're sharing a simple prompt that saves you time or a complex pattern that unlocks new AI capabilities, your knowledge is valuable to the community.

Visit codingrules.ai to get started!

Thank You

We'd like to thank our early users and contributors who have helped shape this platform. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable in creating a resource that truly serves the developer community.

Happy coding!

Daniel Sogl