Shri Hari Sankaran

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Every browser has spent the last couple years ripping off aspects of Arc browser, meanwhile the idiots that actually own Arc itself are busy chasing trends with a significantly worse “AI browser” that no one gives a shit about. Incredible fumble.

@markoilico I'd love to see it

If you're now designing or redesigning a website, this will help you a lot. I recently curated the best hero sections, footers, social proof and other website parts because I got tired of having 15+ tabs open (even with Mobbin). Giving it away 100% free. Comment on this post, and I'll send a Figma link to your inbox!

@Kenneth Why?

Last day of Claude Max 🥲

@sankalpdomore Love it!

Updating the job tracker to have a tilt & swing motion when you grab and move them in Kanban view for NextDoor.Company This just adds more fun to the job tracking workflow. Shipping today. 💨

Domain hoarding should have limits. If you've held a domain for 3+ years with nothing but a parking page (or worse, nothing at all), it should get released back into the pool. The current system just rewards speculators while people with actual ideas pay ransom prices for a .com

@Kenneth @sivansundar This is too funny 🤣

@sivansundar But who will pay for it? The machines? Will we reach point where, like how we ask chatgpt to make ghibli portraits, we are asked by machines to make ghibli portraits?

The ways of working are changing but we will reach a point, sooner than later, where the kind of job you are expected to do may evolve into something that doesn’t fulfil you anymore. What then will you choose to do?

@Kenneth 1. I use iTerm2. I've noticed the default terminal gets sluggish with too many tabs. But iTerm2 has other features too, which I haven't explored fully 2. Not seeing the code for pet projects is fine. But for anything seriou,s I feel I'd want to see the code. Not there yet.

@Shrihari 1. The default one. Any recommends? 2. I don’t see the point of an IDE when I’m not reading the code. I use SublimeText for markup editing. Obsidian for markdown. Prior to last week, I was using the Claude Desktop app.

A week ago, I couldnt imagine working like this

@Kenneth Agreed. I was being more metaphorical in the sense that this looks so good!

@Shrihari I don’t see a point tbh. This stuff already exists. Plus i feel if you want to build you should be doing it with claude or codex. The output is far superior (and probably cheaper) than a wrapper around the API.

So in today’s episode of adventures in vibecoding, I wondered if I could create a static web page builder clone with Claude API and here.now, and well the answer is yes.

@HashNuke @Kenneth @sivansundar I think eventually, yes, they would start bypassing reviews. It's all about developing that trust in the AI

@Kenneth @Shrihari @sivansundar I always recorded videos of my work on Github PRs, or atleast screenshots. Makes it easy for reviewing. I guess that answer depends on the kind of biz risk (regulated for ex). At this pace of dev, I would choose to mostly rely on a test harness + review critical parts only

Just curious but has anyone tried dropping an apk to Claude Code and make a Figma file out of it?

@Kenneth @sivansundar @HashNuke Did you see this? x.com/cursor_ai/stat…

@sivansundar Extending this to let your bot generate walkthrough videos of your app for tutorials and upload to yt and probably write your public facing documentation. Cc: @HashNuke @Shrihari

@jdkanani @morphic This is amazing! Loved it. How many credits does it take on Morphic to create something like this?

Wrote and made a new film. Presenting: Moonlight Veil. This is 100% AI, made entirely on @morphic.

@HashNuke @Kenneth You could perhaps use Claude to generate "screenshots" of live screens. All said and done, this is uncharted territory for me. Mobile apps are more complex than web apps. With web apps, we use Figma <10% these days. Most design is done with Claude

@Kenneth @Shrihari shrihari's comeback is going to be let the stakeholders see working demos/recordings (which is valid) sidenote: I now realize it's important for engg to share container images + test data to help someone run api endpoints required for mobile apps and build on their own.

@Kenneth @HashNuke I don't think Claude Code would catch edge cases reliably. Outlandish idea: what's stopping you from building the APK locally and *designing* with Claude Code?

@HashNuke Yeah but time consuming, also simulating edge cases is hard. Though ideally I’m thinking of this as a connected loop. You make change to the canvas artboard and it should make the changes back into your android studio/xcode view.

AI products: stop making me guess what "100 credits" means. Price on value - "50 photos", "20 screens", "30 min of video." Things I can actually picture. @variantui nails it: 3000 designs/month for $20. No ambiguity, no credit math.

@rahulbhadoriya "It's Figma admitting that the starting point of design has moved to code." Well said. While I wish the best for the Figma team, this does seem like a step back rather than a step forward for design tools like Figma

Figma just shipped Claude Code → Figma. Here's what it actually does: You're building UI in code (Claude Code, localhost, staging, production). You hit capture. That live UI gets converted into editable Figma frames- auto-layered, real components, not a flat screenshot. From there your team can: → Lay out full flows side by side → Duplicate frames and explore variations without touching code → Annotate, comment, branch ideas on the canvas What it does NOT do: → It doesn't sync Figma changes back to code → It's one-way. Code → Canvas. Not a round-trip. So what is this really? It's Figma admitting that the starting point of design has moved to code. They're not building a code editor. They're building a bridge for designers who can't code yet - so they can still participate in a world where the first draft is already built before the designer opens Figma. Here's my honest take: This buys designers 6-12 months. Maybe less. The real future isn't code → figma → code. That's two translations. Two points of friction. The real future is designers designing directly in code. One source of truth. No handoff. No capture tool needed. Learn to design in code. The bridge won't be here forever.

@Ash_uxi 100% agree. In recent months, I've used Claude Code more often for design than Figma. The people saying "but the design system" only do so because their source of truth lives in Figma. Things are so much easier when the source of truth lives in code.

design is shifting and it's wild to watch figma is unmatched for exploring freely on a canvas. nothing else gives you that spatial thinking. but the moment you prototype, it falls apart. the noodles, the variables nobody actually figured out, the output that never feels like the real thing code is the opposite. flexible, real, but you commit to a direction fast and lose that free exploration more designers are crossing over to code now. less fear, more fluency. i hope figma sees this shift clearly. prototyping in figma should feel like creation, not wiring a circuit board config this year feels like it has a lot at stake. could be a real turning point

@PrajwalTomar_ Cursor

After shipping 20+ MVPs using Cursor, I've written down all the tips and tricks that still work and that I always follow. → comment “cursor” and follow i’ll dm you the entire guide