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Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

mikeweiss wrote: post #65
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.

I used AI sparingly actually. Mostly just some help for Ruby gem architecture and how to approach swapping themes on the fly otherwise all me. I'm a product designer by day so this stuff I do constantly.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

reactordev wrote: post #62
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.

Definitely aware. I built it to scratch my own itch to be honest. I'm going the non AI route with it. Lotta slop out there. I'm sure it will improve but I'm fine with this being a side gig.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

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.

That's fair. Probably not a good fit for you then. I wanted to keep the human element alive where I could with this project and I know AI will likely take all our jobs, so be it. It's solving a need for me when it comes to building ideas quickly so I figured maybe others would benefit. I'm a product designer by day and love building front-ends so it's also a passion project.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

taitems wrote: post #66

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.

Yeah pretty much didn't care about it for the sake of effect. That's a big no no I know. The website isn't really the focus as the goods in the ruby gem are more of the focus. Consider railsui.com a billboard if you will.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by justalever »

jarek83 wrote: post #55

Waiting for something similar but without Tailwind and with native elements.

Started this whole thing off thinking I'd use Bootstrap, Tailwind, and other frameworks but it quickly became way to complex. Tailwind won the battle.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by moron4hire »

reactordev wrote: post #63
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.

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".

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by reactordev »

moron4hire wrote: post #77
reactordev wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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".

I didn’t make it this way. It’s not my fault.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by bdcravens »

rufugee wrote: post #69
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.

We weren't just sold, we were the sellers, selling the idea that technology and software could "disrupt" and reduce costs.

Re: Show HN: Rails UI

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Post by bdcravens »

moron4hire wrote: post #77
reactordev wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.
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