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Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes

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134 points miketromba | 8 comments | 25 Oct 25 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.295s | source | bottom

Hey, I built https://ShadcnThemer.com - a web app for creating and sharing themes for shadcn/ui, made with my some of my favorites, Next.js 15, Tailwind CSS 4, Drizzle ORM, and Supabase.

The goal was to make it easy to visually design shadcn color themes, preview them live across various example UIs, and export them straight into your projects (as CSS or via the shadcn CLI registry command).

I had a bit of experience going into this because I built the Theme Studio for VS Code in the past, but it was fun using a modern stack and leveraging Cursor to help me along the way this time.

GitHub: https://github.com/miketromba/shadcn-themer

1. imcritic ◴[25 Oct 25 20:11 UTC] No.45706612[source]▶
What is shadcn?
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2. QuantumNomad_ ◴[25 Oct 25 20:26 UTC] No.45706701[source]▶
A set of components to build web UIs out of

https://ui.shadcn.com/

3. icemelt8 ◴[25 Oct 25 21:27 UTC] No.45707114[source]▶
default UI of the internet
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4. ramon156 ◴[25 Oct 25 23:06 UTC] No.45707670[source]▶
A customizable component library built on radix.

Not sure why this upsets people, is it because it's popular and therefore bad?

5. rafram ◴[26 Oct 25 02:18 UTC] No.45708620[source]▶
The Bootstrap of the 2020s. Just the default components people copy-paste into Tailwind-based SaaS apps.
6. stravant ◴[26 Oct 25 03:41 UTC] No.45708965[source]▶
The key piece of the stack it gives you is sensible cross-platform component behaviors to put your styling / branding on to of.
7. deaux ◴[26 Oct 25 09:24 UTC] No.45710322[source]▶
I'm being very pedantic here in true HN fashion, but at most it's the default UI of VC-funded B2B SaaS startups. 95% of the internet-using world never comes across shadcn UIs.
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8. ivape ◴[26 Oct 25 15:33 UTC] No.45712710{3}[source]▶
It’s also looks like some shit you can make in a weekend. There must have been a boot camp behind pushing it.