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Show HN: Gui.new – The Visual Layer for AI
Hey HN,
I built gui.new. You paste one line into ChatGPT or Claude, and from that point on, whenever you ask for something visual (a dashboard, chart, form, report) it renders it as a live shareable link instead of dumping HTML in your chat.
The prompt:
"Read https://gui.new/docs/llms.txt https://gui.new/docs/llms.txt - use gui.new to render any visual output as a shareable link. Apply this anytime you'd normally show a table, chart, dashboard, or UI mockup."
That's the whole setup. Your AI reads the spec, starts using it, and every visual output becomes a clickable URL you can share with anyone.
Every link gets real-time input sync (form fields, sliders, toggles work across all viewers), state persistence (survives after everyone leaves), and live updates via SSE. Links expire after 24 hours by default.
I built it because AI is great at generating UIs but terrible at showing them. You ask for a dashboard and get a code block. gui.new closes that gap.
Under the hood, your AI is making a single POST call to create a canvas:
```
POST https://gui.new/api/canvas https://gui.new/api/canvas
{"html": "<h1>Hello</h1>"}
-> {"url": "https://gui.new/abc123 https://gui.new/abc123"}
```
You don't need to interact with the API yourself. But if you want to, there are SDKs (`npm install gui-new` / `pip install gui-new`) and the REST API is documented at gui.new/docs.
Free, no signup. Try it at https://gui.new https://gui.new
Happy to answer questions!
- tolibear 7mo agobeen test driving this for the last week. mega useful
- mynameisntbob 7mo agothanks for the feedback! loving all the use cases you’ve been coming up with
- larsmosr 7mo agoCurious how you handle state persistence, if I share a dashboard link and someone interacts with it, does the original creator see those changes too?
- mynameisntbob 7mo agoYes, it will persist from all visitors. Still testing this out and collecting feedback. Private canvases will go live later this week.
- fredrivett 7mo ago1/ This is very cool 2/ What a beaut of a domain Will deffo try this out.
- mynameisntbob 7mo agoHere's what it looks like when Claude builds a dashboard: https://gui.new/M2jtO8n1nA https://gui.new/M2jtO8n1nA or test out UI: https://gui.new/G_lX-UZFyh https://gui.new/G_lX-UZFyh