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5•johntfella•1h ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

https://github.com/stagewise-io/stagewise
40•juliangoetze•14h ago
Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise (https://stagewise.io), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases.

You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `npx stagewise` from the project root. The agent lets you then click on HTML Elements in your app, enter prompts like 'increase the height here' and will implement the changes in your source code.

Before stagewise, we were building a vertical SaaS for logistics from scratch and loved using prototyping tools like v0 or lovable to get to the first version. But when switching from v0/ lovable to Cursor for local development, we felt like the frontend magic was gone. So, we decided to build stagewise to bring that same magic to local development.

The first version of stagewise just forwarded a prompt with browser context to existing IDEs and agents (Cursor, Cline, ..) and went viral on X after we open sourced it. However, the APIs of existing coding agents were very limiting, so we figured that building our own agent would unlock the full potential of stagewise.

Here's how it works: When you run `npx stagewise`, our cli proxies your running web application in dev mode and injects a toolbar containing the coding agent on top of it. Each prompt you send will be enriched with browser context and sent to our cli, which will call our backend and modify the source code of your local codebase accordingly.

Here's a demo of our agent changing the login UI of Cal.com, a popular open-source meeting scheduling app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkDcAozK9L4.

So far, we've seen great adoption from non-technical users who wanted to continue building their lovable prototype locally. We personally use the agent almost daily to make changes to our landing page and to build the UI of new features on our console (https://console.stagewise.io).

If you have an app running in dev mode, simply `cd` into the app directory and run `npx stagewise` - the agent should appear, ready to play with.

We're very excited to hear your feedback!

Comments

koakuma-chan•12h ago
How do I make an account? There is only an option to Sign In. I entered my email, it said that you sent an email, but there's nothing.
juliangoetze•12h ago
The Sign In option also serves as Sign Up.. I'm having a look at the email issue now!
glenntws•12h ago
Are you using one-time mail providers? Otherwise, please check the spam folder of course. If nothing helps, feel free to join Discord (https://discord.gg/DjMqMnUVCh) and we'll debug this together.
koakuma-chan•11h ago
Hey, I received it, it just took like 10 minutes, I use fastmail
glenntws•11h ago
awesome. hope you enjoy
juliangoetze•11h ago
Did the agent work well after the mail came through?
koakuma-chan•10h ago
I think it ran out of credits before it could finish one task.

Available plugins: @stagewise-plugins/angular

Agent server initialized successfully

Stagewise is running on http://localhost:4200

Proxying app from port 3100

Opening browser...

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.99/2€

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.97/2€

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.95/2€

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.92/2€

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.89/2€

[multiEditTool] Editing file public/i18n/en.json (30679 bytes)

[multiEditTool] Edit 0: Replaced 1 occurrence

[multiEditTool] Edit 1: Replaced 1 occurrence

[multiEditTool] Edit 2: Replaced 1 occurrence

[multiEditTool] Edit 3: Replaced 1 occurrence

Credits: [ ------------------------------ ] 1.86/2€

juliangoetze•10h ago
Hmm, the initial credits are usually enough to do 4-5 major tasks and a few more smaller ones. Was the log with 1.86/2 credits the latest?
koakuma-chan•9h ago
Oh maybe it's not that. It showed me "task failed" in the UI, and I saw 1.99/2 in the console, so that's what I assumed.

I'm gonna give it another try a bit later.

juliangoetze•9h ago
Oh okay, seems like there was another issue then, I'll debug. Happy to see a run without issues later
koakuma-chan•6h ago
Good luck!
artahian•12h ago
v0 and lovable have way too much hype, I think what you're doing with stagewise (i.e. being dev-first instead of optimizing for non-developer users) is the real long term use of AI.
glenntws•12h ago
thanks for the kind words! If you have ideas or wishes for next steps, feel free to share.
zote•10h ago
This is what I've been looking for! Tried self hosting the bolt.new editor to achieve something like this and it was terrible. Also interested in hearing about the SaaS you were building, I recently built something in that niche coincidentally drafted at first by v0.
juliangoetze•10h ago
Haha, cool to hear!

We were tinkering with a transport management system because the industry was full of legacy software.

But before we were able to battle-test something, stagewise took off.

Still think that it's an industry worth going for (at least in Germany)

zote•9h ago
Ha, this project has had me thinking about that sector more, I'll try and make an effort and go for it in the future, and congrats you have built something truly useful here.
juliangoetze•9h ago
What were you building? And did it evolve/ has been used by someone?
zote•9h ago
I was building something for a single logistics company; they'd handle clearing and forwarding for their clients as well as transportation if it was required, covered everything from invoicing to fleet management, outsourcing jobs, It's evolved quite a bit considering the initial premise was simply creating quotes and invoicing, maybe It'll end up being a bigger deal in the future
juliangoetze•9h ago
Sounds like the experiences we've had in the industry - even though they're all 'logistics companies', their workflows and requirements differ greatly, even within a niche of a niche. This gave us a hard time building a scalable software that would be useful for as many companies in the industry as possible
aagha•9h ago
Cool!

How does this work for non-UI code?

juliangoetze•9h ago
Do you mean for UI-related changes that also include modifying the backend, or do you mean pure backend changes that don't involve UI at all?
wodow•8h ago
Does it work with Node/JS/TS front ends only, or can it work with other languages and web frameworks?
juliangoetze•6h ago
It will work as long as the project is a web project and runs in the browser. The agent is a pure js snippet and can be injected into any web app
alienbaby•7h ago
existing codebases... so long as they are web applications?
juliangoetze•6h ago
Yep, that's correct. stagewise only works with web applications.
pj_mukh•7h ago
Ugh, looking for something like this for Front-end Mobile Dev (React-Native, Swift etc.). The closest thing I've found is https://www.magicpatterns.com, but that doesn't work on existing repos. Keep that in mind!
juliangoetze•6h ago
Will do so!
juliangoetze•6h ago
The whole 'vibe-coding' space seems a bit underserved for mobile or am I wrong?
pj_mukh•5h ago
Cursor/Claude works decently enough for react-native.

Would love some models optimized for Swift and also closing the loop with the simulator would be clutch.

rrrx3•5h ago
Been using this for a few weeks now, and I love it. I'd love it if yall could add some more design controls!
juliangoetze•1h ago
Nice to hear that! What exactly do you imagine when talking about design controls?
juliangoetze•1h ago
Have you tried the stagewise agent so far? If so, what are the core problems the agent still has?
chatmasta•4h ago
That’s really cool. It’s one of those ideas that seems obvious in retrospect once you see it.

What’s your moat? Especially against companies like Webflow or Vercel who could implement your “product as a feature.” Have you thought about partnering with those sort of companies to white label your solution embedded into their apps?

glenntws•1h ago
Thanks, really appreciate it. Our moat is that we're completely open. Matter of fact, even the interface to connect other agents is open source. We want to keep being compatible with all kinds of frameworks and tech stacks.
glenntws•1h ago
oh and as stupid as it might sound, but: we're confident that we can simply be better. Our roadmap is full of things that go way beyond the current capabilities, but everything is focussed on one goal: Make building production-grade (and pretty) frontends as easy as possible.

Sounds cheesy, but the focus on really really nailing this one thing sets us apart we think.

indigodaddy•4h ago
This is pretty wild. Very clever idea, kudos/congrats.
juliangoetze•1h ago
Thanks! Would love to hear product feedback since there's still a ton we need to improve
dchuk•4h ago
Would this work with Ruby on Rails apps that use erb templates? Or does it have to work with JavaScript frameworks on the front end?
glenntws•1h ago
It works with everything that runs in a browser - as long as the dev app runs on localhost and the codebase is local as well, we can integrate with it!
bravesoul2•2h ago
Smart solution. My todo list had getting Claude Code somehow to "look at the ui" but looks like you have prefabbed this sort of thing for us.
juliangoetze•1h ago
Thanks! There are also some other tools out there that give 'vision' to your coding agent via MCP, but we figured that prompting the agent directly by clicking on elements is the most intuitive way to interact with it.
bravesoul2•45m ago
Yeah the video is amazing. I like it when some magic feeling is added back to AI. We got so used to chatGPT the dopamine hits are rarer. But chatting to your app to change the code rather than merely use the app is magical. For now... (need a new sparkle tomorrow lol!)
__grob•52m ago
Cool, I had a very similar idea recently, awesome to see it live! Congrats!
juliangoetze•49m ago
It's so funny how many people tell us that - it's one of the obvious ideas someone just needed to start with. What kept you from building the first version?