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Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by ChadMoran » Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by reactordev » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC

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.

I came here to say: Is someone going to tell him? Glad I’m not the only one to be like “Wait.. I can do this with an agent in no time”.

In fact, armed with Context7, Claude could recreate this whole business model in a day.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by reactordev » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 12:02 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #50

It looks good, but I'll be honest, it's hard for me to consider $299/$799 if I can buy a beautiful theme off of somewhere like ThemeForest for $20 or $30 and toss it into an LLM to get the files parsed into components and templates.

You don’t even need to do that anymore. It’s capable of visiting those sites and just copying the components look and feel. Try it. Ask it to make a template based on a theme you found and show it the link to the demo and BaM! You got something similar.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by dabbz » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

liveoneggs wrote: post #60

is this daisy for rails?

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

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by mikeweiss » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 12:28 AM UTC

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.

Maybe they used AI to make this ? But really though I hope they didn't and did some of designing themselves... I'm worried we are approaching a world where we never get new human designs just regurgitated designs from pre 2025.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by taitems » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

Did a quick search and no-one has flagged a11y/colour/contrast but the animating effect for the brand colour often had a colour contrast around the 1.0 range.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by faizshah » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:05 AM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by 101008 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

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.

Any chance to reach out to you? I'd like to ask you some questions about those SaaS (not in a bad way, just trying to learn)

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by rufugee » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:35 AM UTC

bdcravens wrote: post #50

It looks good, but I'll be honest, it's hard for me to consider $299/$799 if I can buy a beautiful theme off of somewhere like ThemeForest for $20 or $30 and toss it into an LLM to get the files parsed into components and templates.

Sad for the creators of the world. I enjoy the benefits of AI, but I hate if for creative individuals like @justalever.

We (developers) were all sold a promise years ago of technology/software being our future. That's changing rapidly, and there's no going back.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC

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.