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Carryover
Portable edit memory that keeps tab completion sharp in any editor
- Score
- 52
- confidence 58
- Evidence
- 13
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 4
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2021
- Emerging market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Developers work with tab completion while editing code in their editor, requiring dense context and configuration on a workstation. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Memory
Synced 2 min ago1,284
About this appAI proposal
Carryover keeps a memory of how you work in a repository: your recent edits, the refactors you repeat, the imports you prefer. It stores that memory outside any one editor, so switching editors does not reset what your completions know.
It is for developers who lean on tab completion and feel the loss when they change editors or open a repo cold. A small editor extension sends recent edit context to Carryover, and the PWA lets you see, search, pin and delete what it remembers.
What is different: the memory belongs to you and the repo, not to one editor. You can inspect it, scope it per project and share a team's conventions. The gap it targets comes from public developer comments, not verified testing.
- Tagline
- Switch editors. Keep what your completions learned.
- Voice
- PlainPreciseCalm
- Why this name
- Carryover says the point in one word: context that carries over when you change editors or sessions.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Edit memory across files
Records recent edits and refactor steps across the repo, so a rename in one file is expected in the next.
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Editor-independent
The same memory is served to any supported editor extension. Switch editors without starting over.
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Import and pattern habits
Learns which imports, helpers and idioms your codebase actually uses and ranks them for suggestions.
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Memory you can read
Browse, pin, edit or delete every remembered item in the PWA. No black box.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Carryover
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Switch editors. Keep what your completions learned.
PricingAI proposal
Verified pricing pages show Cursor at $20 to $40 a month, Copilot at $4 to $21 and Mercury at $29.90 to $299, each with a free plan. These tiers sit inside that range as a starting point to test.
Free
Free
- One repo
- Small context window
- Local memory browser
Solo
$12 a month
- Unlimited repos
- Large context window
- Sync across editors
- Pin and edit memory
Team
$24 a month
- Everything in Solo, per seat
- Shared team patterns
- Review of shared conventions
- Priority support
Would you pay Solo · $12 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Users invite others. A team shares pinned patterns for a repo. Teammates join to receive them in their own editor, and each new member needs an extension and seat.
- Do they become customers?
- Invited teammates work in the same repo and can become paying seats. Test whether shared conventions make teammates install it and whether solo users convert.
- First customers
- Professional developers who use AI editors daily and switch between two editors, in small teams of 3 to 15 on one TypeScript codebase.
- Where to reach them
- Hacker News: Show HN post on portable edit memory, drawing on the public threads about forgetful completion.
- Editor extension marketplaces: List the free extension where developers already look for completion add-ons.
- Developer communities: Offer free setup to small teams in Discord and subreddit groups for AI editors.
- First milestone
- Twenty developers use it weekly for a month and five teams pay for Solo or Team seats.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedZed's pricing page lists 2 paid plans, at $10 a month, plus a free plan
- Public claimCursor Tab completion maintains context across files during refactoring and remembers recent edits
- Public claimCursor Tab infers patterns and appropriate imports from broader codebase context
- Public claimDevelopers become dependent on context-aware tab completion after extended use
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Editor extensionsVS Code-compatible and Zed extensionsEdit events must be captured inside the editor and suggestions returned there.
- This app · Context storePostgres with pgvectorStores edit history and embeddings for retrieval per repo scope.
RisksAI inference
- PlatformEditors may not let third-party extensions replace or feed their built-in tab completion, which would limit Carryover to a separate suggestion surface.
- TechnicalCompletion must feel instant. Added network hops and context retrieval may be too slow compared with built-in features.
- DataEdit history is sensitive source code. Teams will ask for strict retention, encryption and possibly self-hosting.
- CommercialEditor vendors bundle completion in their own plans, so developers may not pay separately. The evidence is public claims only.
- AIBetter memory may not improve accuracy enough for developers to notice, and stale memory can cause wrong suggestions.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.