Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I quit my job in the spring to work on UI design software where designers visually build real component and design system implementations, and engineers can collaborate by editing the code.

The goal is to eliminate the massive chasm that exists in design-to-engineering hand-off by having a single source of truth.

If you're doing this as a business, you should consider how you think this is different from e.g. Figma (for designers/PMs) or Framer (for design-implemented-as-actual-usable-component-on-a-low-code-site). What you're describing sounds very similar to Figma's developer mode, at least framed the way you frame it here. Is the idea that, say, the design files are loaded as CSS or React components or whatever directly into your site, rather than being copied or imported?

(If this is just a personal project, disregard! But "quit my job" makes me think you're thinking of this as a business.)