[flagged]
Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD
11–15 of 15 posts
Re: Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD
#12The opportunity to vibe code and reinforce with something like claud code for example will poach any application that thinks they have the market share and charge whatever the hell they want. I am very excited for projects like this where you leverage open source for a very specific user and offer alternatives to SAAS. Keep iterating and solidy you security and make sure you get direct feedback from experienced CAD users, which I am not. good luck
Re: Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD
#13Good job. How long did it take you to build it?
I heavily used LLM agents and it took about a month - of course I'm already starting to pay back the gained time
The development as I see it for such a project is about a year so I expect to take roughly 6 months to iron out the weird slop here and there
Having said that, the project right now is at an astonishing point and, in fear of jinxing myself, it works. Yea there are the occasional UI bugs here and there (incorrect tool grouping, incorrect tool icons, etc.) but welp, it does what I mostly want it to
Side note: I've done a similar project before and have tons of experience around building similar products, this is not an "AI success/AI will take your job" story - far from it
Re: Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD
#14The opportunity to vibe code and reinforce with something like claud code for example will poach any application that thinks they have the market share and charge whatever the hell they want. I am very excited for projects like this where you leverage open source for a very specific user and offer alternatives to SAAS. Keep iterating and solidy you security and make sure you get direct feedback from experienced CAD u…
Thank you very much!
That is exactly my take, though I'm ramping down the agents for the time being - 90% of the functionality is there and it's time to pay back the engineering time that I borrowed :P
I have a lot of experience developing CAD (before the AI boom) and while it made 0 sense to burn 1-2 years of my life to produce a similar MVP, now that I HAVE this MVP, it makes a ton of sense to pour my time on it
Also I'm gonna tackle some more god-problems with agents, like reversing the sldprt/f3d filetypes to allow importing them without losing history and more - each of this would require years of engineering hours and even achieving the 80% that agentic coding does is something that has never been done before
Re: Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD
#15err.. seems like many of the UI elements taken straight from OnShape? https://www.onshape.com
It's vibe coded, so not surprising that it replicates the patterns of existing systems.
That's true but some years ago that I tried to develop a very similar product/project I went mostly on the same path. as another comment states, UI is a great place NOT to re-invent the wheel
Also changing CAD programs is already hard enough and having very similar UI/UX is a feature, not a by-product of agentic coding.
Also in many cases I honestly can't think of a better way to do stuff