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This is just selling components someone else wrote, right? Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matte
by jwilber 1y ago
This is just selling components someone else wrote, right?
Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matter of seeing others work, taking a screenshot, asking ai to recreate it, and then packaging it into a “library” and selling it for $50.
Maybe I’m alone in the sentiment, but it just rubs me the wrong way.
- armedin 1y agoAI isn’t quite at the point where it can recreate high-quality UI components just from a screenshot. Everything in this library was built by hand — no AI, no copied code. Just pure design and engineering effort. There’s a lot of work you don’t see on the surface.
- sdoering 1y ago> Just pure design and engineering effort Made my day. At least they have guts. I give them that.
- sampullman 1y agoWhich model can recreate complex animations from a screenshot? That would be incredibly impressive.
- jwilber 1y agoAny leading model. Ask it to generate the ui from the screenshot. Follow up and describe the required animations, and it will give you the css/js. Do it all the time.
- sampullman 1y agoOh, I see. I haven't had much luck generating UI from screenshots, but describing an UI (or animations) clearly does usually get me 75% or more of the way there. I thought I might have been missing something critical.