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Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by moron4hire » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #80

moron4hire wrote: post #77

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It's really weird to me how people on this site used to have a much bigger problem with ripping off other people's designs and work, but the minute it became turnkey it was like, "sorry art nerd guess you starve now roll coal".

It wasn't that many years ago when startups or open source software were being built on the back of stealing others' art: Napster, Mega, Bit Torrent, etc. Not everyone, but forums like this were filled with apologists claiming it was the fault of those rights owners for not making their content available cheaper.

I don't anything about Mega, but BitTorrent was not designed for stealing other's art. That's an unfair claim to make.

Yes, Napster was specifically started for sharing files people didn't have the rights to share, but I still don't think it's a fair comparison because nobody sharing files on Napster ever tried to claim it was their music they were sharing. If people were taking Metallica's music and recording their own versions of it that were 99% identical and then claiming they were the original artist, that would be a closer analogy. Napster also didn't receive the massive PR campaigns, huge institutional investment, the government blind-eye-turning, etc. that AI is enjoying today. Napster was also successfully sued for promoting copyright infringement.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by xixixao » Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

justalever wrote: post #98

xixixao wrote: post #89

Hmm, Rails, I wonder if the UI will work well. I open https://railsui.com/components . I click on the different components. They switch to a random component after a while. My confidence in Rails for UI stays were it was :)

What's a better play? Drop the carousel? Open to ideas!

Either drop the carousel or make it much, much more obvious that there's an animation going on.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by dabbz » Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 7:12 AM UTC

stephenhuey wrote: post #83

dabbz wrote: post #64

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Felt more like a Tailwind UI ( https://tailwindcss.com/plus ) to me

I have purchased Tailwind UI in the past, but for Rails developers, Rails UI goes the extra mile as this sentence on the JavaScript page explains: Rails defaults use Stimulus.js and Turbo from the Hotwire ecosystem. Rails UI follows these conventions and includes pre-built Stimulus controllers for common UI patterns.

oh yea I absolutely understand the niche this Rails UI fits in. I was just drawing parallels to Tailwind UI. Rails is a more "opinionated" version.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by ChadMoran » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

faizshah wrote: post #67

ChadMoran wrote: post #61

I've launched 3 Rails SaaS products in the last 6 months, all profitable. In the world of LLMs things like this feel less valuable. I can kick off a Claude Code prompt and in 1 hour have a decent design system with Rails components. Things like this likely need to be AI-first moving forward. This feels built for humans.

Personally, if I feel like you vibe coded your SaaS I’m probably not gonna pay for it. You can obviously tell when a project is vibe coded just based on the way it looks, the weird bugs you see and the poor documentation. There’s definitely a market for good looking UI that actually works and stands out from the vibe coded junk. Artisanal corn fed UI I guess.

I agree.

None of mine are vibe-coded. They're making a competent engineer like myself - more efficient.

The roadblock for me is the coding part, not the idea part.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by ChadMoran » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

justalever wrote: post #70

ChadMoran wrote: post #61

I've launched 3 Rails SaaS products in the last 6 months, all profitable. In the world of LLMs things like this feel less valuable. I can kick off a Claude Code prompt and in 1 hour have a decent design system with Rails components. Things like this likely need to be AI-first moving forward. This feels built for humans.

That's fair. I think there's a future where some folks won't want AI to generate all the things. I replied to another comment before but this was very little AI minus some architecture direction of the underlying ruby gem.

I definitely don't AI-generate all of the things.

For me it's a bandwidth increaser for the tedious parts.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by ChadMoran » Mon, Jan 26, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

justalever wrote: post #71

faizshah wrote: post #67

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Personally, if I feel like you vibe coded your SaaS I’m probably not gonna pay for it. You can obviously tell when a project is vibe coded just based on the way it looks, the weird bugs you see and the poor documentation. There’s definitely a market for good looking UI that actually works and stands out from the vibe coded junk. Artisanal corn fed UI I guess.

Same here. This was human driven UI. I used AI sparingly for mostly architecture decisions on the gem. Otherwise all by hand. I'm a product designer by trade.

AI is an effort leverage tool, not a thinking one.

If you know what you're doing it can truly accelerate your work.