[teddarific]

Other tools are AMAZING for spinning up actual fullstack apps and use cases that require persistent storage. But actual product teams aren’t asking for that.

Also, our customers tell us that anecdotally it feels like we error less compared to other tools because we are focused entirely on frontend (there’s less room for error). Of course, we still error a lot - not easy when natural language is your input set!! - but it helps to stay focused and theres less dependencies on a backend & database.

p.s. one of my personal favorite parts of Magic Patterns is that you can very easily revert to a previous version, which is possible because no backend or database!

[airstrike]

I love the idea. I just tried it for the office software suite I'm building and although I wouldn't copy-and-paste the design it suggested, it gave me a few ideas to iterate on, and that's already useful. I'll explore it further when it's time for more design thinking (I'm pretty set on my current design for now)

Interestingly, part of the value of the project I'm working on comes from bundling an AI assistant so that you can get documents (spreadsheets, presentations, documents) from natural language, so there's some overlap--the obvious difference being I'm trying to build complex documents instead of complex UI

[teddarific]

Awesome to hear — our goal is to get to a point where you can copy/paste the design, but we totally recognize that it doesn't always get you to a full high fidelity mock up with the current limitations. So the main use case we've seen a lot of success with is ideating and validating different branches, quickly.

Oh that sounds very neat — definitely similar in nature! Documents and UI are both complex and can require a lot of iterations to get right

[airstrike]

FWIW I think it could get a pretty high fidelity mockup if I had spent more time with it! It was remarkably good for a single one-shot prompt which probably had 15 words or less. I'll definitely come back for more when the time is right.

[teddarific]

Definitely — we've seen some pretty crazy high fidelity mock ups from our customers who spend hours and hours prompting away, and they genuinely blow my mind. it's honestly why we spend so much time working on the application layer (e.g. making it easier to feed context into your prompt, referencing other designs, etc) since we know that the LLM is capable of these things, it just takes much more time than most people are willing to put in.

would love to hear what you think when you give it another try!