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Thanks so much! I like that idea of embracing the mess and letting AI handle the busywork. Making messes is more fun :)

Thanks! Agreed, the protocol for both input/output is super important and our top priority right now. It's also the thing we're most excited about from a technical perspective, sin…

Great questions! For getting components into the system: we're working on a protocol (more specifically a TypeScript interface) that defines a mapping from component types that the…

Definitely! We have a first draft of a protocol for integrating any components/theme into Noya, but it still needs a little more work. Once it's ready, we (or anybody else) can add…

Right now it's not very good since that hasn't been a focus for us yet - but both David and I worked on fairly advanced design tools for accessibility while at Airbnb, so we have a…

Got it! Thanks for the info, it's very useful to understand the workflow.

Right now the individual components are responsive, but the entire design as a whole isn't (i.e. top-level components are absolute positioned). This is definitely an area we want t…

At the moment, yes, since our MVP is still pretty limited. We have a first draft of a protocol for integrating any components/theme into Noya that should support the use case you'r…

Thanks for the feedback! This is super valuable. 1. There isn't anything fundamental about that tool that requires React. We have a lot of React experience and it's a very popular …

We're currently searching unsplash for stock photos. I didn't find anything too weird when I tried that query, but they do sometimes feel random. We want to add multiple image prov…

Thanks, will look into this!

Definitely agree on there being a lot of value in the napkin sketch on steroids approach, and that's where we're starting. Creating real designs and shipping to production within a…

Custom theming & design systems are coming! That's what we're focused on building now. We can definitely support a bootstrap-based design system with custom theming in the future.

We can add this! We have image drag n drop already so should be very easy to also support pasting from clipboard.

That's a great point! For simplicity we've been referring to our current "design system" as Chakra, but it's definitely more nuanced than that. We think of a design system as "a li…

These are great questions: 1. The way I've been thinking about it now is similar to how I use autolayout in Figma. Simple x/y is convenient for a very first rough draft. Then I'll …

Gotcha, we can do that!

That's a very interesting point. By guiding people down the "happy path" with "guardrails", we may end up in mediocrity land. Additionally, Noya is optimized for solving user/busin…

Thanks for the feedback! I'll take another look at the pricing flow on mobile, I'm sure it could use another UX pass to be more clear. It's one user per subscription, though you ca…

That's a great way of describing the problem we're trying to solve! As the tool grows, we definitely hope it becomes powerful enough for designers to use too.

Awesome, let me know what you think once you do!

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Hi HN, we’re building Noya ( https://noya.io ), a product design tool that lets everyone design like a designer. Here’s a video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/797476910 . Getting …

The app frontend is open source while the backend is closed source, at least for now. Noya should run without the backend, but some things like sharing projects won't work. I'm pla…

Can you share more about your use case?