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Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by alexdanilowicz »

pelagicdev wrote: post #19

Why would you limit the tool to strictly be for React? "As per my limitations, I am designed to work specifically with React and TypeScript/JavaScript only. I cannot provide direct conversions to plain HTML/CSS or other frameworks."

Mainly to narrow the problem space: there's a lot of logic in our backend that we call "post processing" which is cleaning up the code after the AI generated it to fix hallucinations. For example, the AI often gets import statements wrong or misspells icon names.

It's pretty interesting because every model seems to introduce a new set of hallucinations, so this is a problem that requires a lot of maintenance. We have this internal mantra to "use AI as little as possible" especially it's a problem that can be solved deterministically.

Also, because we are more focused on PMs, designers, and product leaders the code is largely an implementation detail. What they care about is being able to visually communicate their ideas, and React just happens to be a great way to do that because LLMs are great are outputting it + we have a pipeline to render it. (We are React developers ourselves.)

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by alexdanilowicz »

pglevy wrote: post #20
alexdanilowicz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While we target the PM, it's a healthy mix of personas. We have many founders and designers who use us as well. Some of the designers are indeed now skipping Figma, a direct quote from one of them ( https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephenwitmer_you-gotta-love-... ): > "I spend 80-90% less time drawing boxes in Figma - and more time using my insights, creativity, and words to create working prototypes [...] - to shorte…

Not using Magic Patterns but absolutely +1 this workflow. I'm a designer working across multiple teams and it's so fast and fluid to get react prototypes out of an LLM. I put together a vite project to drop the resulting typescript files into. Much quicker iteration with PMs and then we capture spec from the prototype. I see this as a way to scale our design efforts across the org since we can get higher resolution i…

which tools are you using? And if you do end up trying us, let me know what you'd like to see or if we can help with anything!

It is remarkable how fast pure prompting can get you an interactive prototype.

We recently added the ability for our system to reference markdown files, so one thing you can do is paste a PRD into Magic Patterns and then tell it to reference that PRD as it builds out your spec.

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by sumitkumar »

Hi, Thank you for sharing.

I tried this prompt.

``` create a Rubik's cube app with all available moves and show the cube and the animations. add a scrambler and a solver. Also add timer to time the moves. ```

I got this.

https://www.magicpatterns.com/c/psesccrmk41jibfhwp7wh1

Which looks like a good starting point but doesn't work at all. After this it is daunting to look at code. I still have to figure out how to tell the chatbox to fix it.

Gemini 2.5 pro did much better in one shot. (the prompt was different and without the scrambler/solver/timer)

https://sumitkumar.github.io/llmgenerated-static/

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by jonplackett »

sumitkumar wrote: post #25

Hi, Thank you for sharing. I tried this prompt. ``` create a Rubik's cube app with all available moves and show the cube and the animations. add a scrambler and a solver. Also add timer to time the moves. ``` I got this. https://www.magicpatterns.com/c/psesccrmk41jibfhwp7wh1 Which looks like a good starting point but doesn't work at all. After this it is daunting to look at code. I still have to figure out how to tel…

I’m constantly intrigued how people are getting funding for entire companies that are essentially going to be a feature of all LLMs pretty soon.

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by tibbar »

jonplackett wrote: post #26
sumitkumar wrote: post #25

Hi, Thank you for sharing. I tried this prompt. ``` create a Rubik's cube app with all available moves and show the cube and the animations. add a scrambler and a solver. Also add timer to time the moves. ``` I got this. https://www.magicpatterns.com/c/psesccrmk41jibfhwp7wh1 Which looks like a good starting point but doesn't work at all. After this it is daunting to look at code. I still have to figure out how to tel…

I’m constantly intrigued how people are getting funding for entire companies that are essentially going to be a feature of all LLMs pretty soon.

If the company can build a big user base first, then they become a possible acquisition target in the future by the LLM company for their distribution, ala Windsurf selling itself to OpenAI.

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by teddarific »

esafak wrote: post #7
dhruv3006 wrote: post #3

So how are you different?

It looks neat, but it has to be asked. There's Lovable, Bolt, v0, etc.

other Magic Patterns co-founder here —

to add on to Alex's answer above, we also differ in that we have a lot of features focused around brainstorming / exploring ideas, versus just spinning up a fullstack app. For example, we have a "Commands" feature that lets you get four variations (that are guaranteed to be different!) of a prompt.

We also have a Chrome extension that lets you import designs from your existing product to ideate on top of existing content.

Re: Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

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Post by teddarific »

lgas wrote: post #28
airstrike wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

different from _____?

All of the other products in this space.

Other tools are AMAZING for spinning up actual fullstack apps and use cases that require persistent storage. But actual product teams aren’t asking for that.

Also, our customers tell us that anecdotally it feels like we error less compared to other tools because we are focused entirely on frontend (there’s less room for error). Of course, we still error a lot - not easy when natural language is your input set!! - but it helps to stay focused and theres less dependencies on a backend & database.

p.s. one of my personal favorite parts of Magic Patterns is that you can very easily revert to a previous version, which is possible because no backend or database!

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