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Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts

https://www.mana.space/home/rZfbotNWAXegQypmpkzaAPFC6Mp1/Apps/Figma%20Next%20Launch
25•behzadhaghgoo•54m ago
I think a chasm has been crossed. Opus 5.5 few shotted a fully working Figma for me. In the past year I have been trying to benchmark vibe coded apps and see how good they get and this week it did it with very very little guidance from me. I basically just told it reach feature parity.

Prior to this vibe coded apps would resemble the real software, this is not a resemblance it's the real thing. As a casual Figma user in the past, I can't really see a difference. And if there is one you have an LLM that can on the fly operate the app or use it.

P.S. I did this is on Mana which is our startup making it easier for LLMs to do it (probably the code is half of what would have been and there are primitives it can use but ultimately it's a testament to how good models have gotten). I went on to make google meets, docs, telegram, linear, etc. All basically with single prompts. The biggest jump has been in the UX understanding of models and attention to detail.

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kumama•49m ago
i wonder whether these were in the training set for the models
behzadhaghgoo•48m ago
yeah maybe they trained on the RL envs or maybe it's from computer use
anonymous908213•40m ago
Nice advertisement. Truth doesn't matter, just poop out something that visually looks like the correct thing and use it to shill your harness.
behzadhaghgoo•36m ago
It’s not an ad just try it
behzadhaghgoo•22m ago
you can try the editor here: https://www.mana.space/home/rZfbotNWAXegQypmpkzaAPFC6Mp1/App...
drewbitt•40m ago
My agent did it in one prompt, it git cloned https://github.com/open-pencil/open-pencil
behzadhaghgoo•36m ago
This was from scratch
drewbitt•6m ago
Work smarter, not harder. Mine even preserved the commit history.
shayanp•38m ago
feels like magic! photoshop is there too :))
smy20011•37m ago
> Claude wrote about 8,200 lines of React for the editor's core logic, including rendering, hit testing and undo.

I'm pretty sure figma clone cannot be done in 8k lines. Are you only cloned part of the logic?

behzadhaghgoo•25m ago
I thought the same, please try it :)
ConceitedCode•36m ago
I feel like I'm missing something. Every time I attempt something similar, I end up with something that looks reasonable but doesn't hold up to scrutiny. To me, it feels like the models have become great at making demos more so than "fully featured clones". Admittedly, these demos keep getting better.

I wish there was a more standardized way of sharing these prompts, results and token usage.

behzadhaghgoo•26m ago
My prompt was literally make something figma-level, have feature parity and do it in a way that a user can't feel a difference.

You can try mana, curious how it compares to your previous experiences. You can sign up here if you like: https://mana.space/invite/MANA-NPNV

xnx•36m ago
> P.S. I did this is on Mana which is our startup making it easier for LLMs to do it

Can Mana clone Mana yet?

behzadhaghgoo•29m ago
we can try :)
jjcm•33m ago
Ex-figma.

Not surprising it can get it to parity for a casual user. One thing I find though is that a lot of the vibecloned apps miss or ignore power user features or implement edge case features incorrectly. This was very, very true of the artcraft clones - as soon as you get to the more advanced things, they start to fall apart.

For a lot of the Figma code, there are SO many gotchyas in there, that while I'd be curious to try it, I don't think agents would be able to derive the why, and thus would attempt to optimize the implementation leading to incorrect usage. I led the variables workstream at Figma, and it still is the most complex thing I've worked on in my 20 years of tech. The amount of edge cases / conditionals / exceptions in it are staggering, just to get it to a point where it seems like it's "simple" (for a power users' definition of simple).

One other thing to consider though is the value of something like Figma isn't the functionality so much as the multiplayer platform aspect. This is toats fine if you're just doing solo work, but the collab aspect means you have to fight against the social network dynamics, which also can't be vibe coded.

behzadhaghgoo•28m ago
I think one thing that's different now is that you have an agent that you can ask to handle those edge cases. UI/UX solves the very common paths and there is always a very powerful AI for actions and modifications to app.

Very curious if you try it and tell us how far it is from real figma

behzadhaghgoo•21m ago
you can try it here: https://www.mana.space/home/rZfbotNWAXegQypmpkzaAPFC6Mp1/App...
bb88•10m ago
xn•33m ago
Nice. How long does it take to generate a Mana clone? How about a Mana cloner clone?
behzadhaghgoo•29m ago
I think if you do this outside mana it's 2-3x amount of code. You don't need to replicate all of mana. I'm bullish on mana making general figma level apps possible in one shot but I think for any specific one you can build your own. It's more about how good models have gotten in understanding UX and writing complex code
Your statement about complexity is true with most SaaS offerings. They need to be everything to everybody so they can target as large a market as possible.

But as a user if you can identify the exact requirements you need your software to do, then it's very possible to vibe code a solution to do exactly what you're looking for. And your own offering doesn't need to be as complex, and can be tightly coupled to the other infrastructure you have.

martinpw•9m ago
I was thinking exactly this. Example - a 3d app I worked on. There is a tool that does a set of complex modeling operations on geometry. The operation description seems simple, the attributes that control the tool are easy to understand. But underneath it there is 50k lines of code - 1k for the common case and 49k to handle all the (literal) edge cases you can have with complex real world data, which came in from dozens of customers over the course of decades, mostly highly proprietary one off models.

I think agents can absolutely write the default path correctly and it will work most of the time and seem to be feature complete. But I don't see how they will quickly handle all those dozens of edge cases.

Over time it can happen - each time a case fails, send it to an agent and have it implement the conditional case. But that will take a long time. There is a reason most solid CAD kernels are decades old - they have been battle hardened and just handle all those edge cases better than other kernels.

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