Seems lots of the market for tools like this is un-moat-able. Hopefully someone smarter than me shares their experience with that.
If someone with clout at Anthropic takes it up as a champion and pushes it into the portfolio of apps at the importance of Claude code, it could be an amazing product, eventually a threat to Adobe, Lovable, Canva market share. It needs a better direct editing layer like 2-way figma sync, so you’re not stuck only prompting for every small adjustment. It could really use smart routing of image generation requests to a nano-banana level image generation model for the images that get poured into the ui mockups (so you don’t need to round trip to external sources by hand). And of course, like all modern LLMs doing visual work, it lacks “taste” if not given extensive examples during prompting.
Right now it feels like a fun proof of concept that could be killed at any time ala Google’s many “I got my PM promoted at launch and then was promptly abandoned” projects.
He didn’t have the technical skills to know why it was a monstrosity, or how to prompt his way out of it.
For him a static site was a better choice, but apparently lovable will only use their own framework called “Tanstack Start”? You can’t get it to build you an AstroJS site.
I got him to switch to Cursor and he rebuilt the whole site with Astro and cloudflare pages in a couple of days. It’s now blazing fast.
hudn33•1h ago
And as a side note, what are people's thought on the best coding agent for frontend dev?
doener•1h ago
https://schmerz-radio.com/
GenerWork•48m ago
igravious•46m ago
Maybe I'm too much of a CLI guy (always preferred Vim & co. to Rubymine/VS Code/etc)
dgellow•21m ago
chrisweekly•13m ago
1. I'll edit or reply to my comment if I get a sec to dig up the URL.