The open-source Cursor for Designers • Building tools for AI-native Designers • Join the waitlist for the next era of Onlook 🔻
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Jun 11
BY ORDER OF THE ODYSSEY
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO ATTEND
THE ONLOOK PREGAME
AT THE ONLOOK STUDIO IN SAN FRANCISCO
ON THE FATED, INEVITABLE EVENING OF
THURSDAY JUNE 25, 2026
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Jun 11
a config postgame pregame for the config postgame
Jun 11
BY ORDER OF THE ODYSSEY
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO ATTEND
THE ONLOOK PREGAME
AT THE ONLOOK STUDIO IN SAN FRANCISCO
ON THE FATED, INEVITABLE EVENING OF
THURSDAY JUNE 25, 2026
VI • XXV • MMXXVI
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Jun 11
BY ORDER OF THE ODYSSEY
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED TO ATTEND
THE ONLOOK PREGAME
AT THE ONLOOK STUDIO IN SAN FRANCISCO
ON THE FATED, INEVITABLE EVENING OF
THURSDAY JUNE 25, 2026
VI • XXV • MMXXVI
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
Jun 8
designing from a codebase that has brand assets and fonts already
just iterating on different layouts with a single prompt
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May 25
constraints can get some solid creative output in @onlookdev
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May 19
drafting a longform take on the state of design in 2026
having too much fun playing with the header image options
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May 18
a good visual can make it a lot easier to decide where hotkeys should go
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
May 1
Thank you for the amazing demo! A lot of us gasped out loud
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May 1
had such a great time sharing @onlookdev with this incredible community last night!
May 1
Yesterday, 50 of the most talented designers in SF met up to share their work. Exploring the symbiotic nature of machines and their designers.
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🎯 Another milestone hit! Onlook @onlookdev now has 25,000 stars! Amazing work 🌟
Visual React editor with real-time code updates
openalternative.co/onlook
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Apr 30
fade-out recent projects horizontal scroll to see more
in @onlookdev
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Apr 17
the next version of Onlook is a completely new approach to design in code
join the waitlist to give it a try soon!
onlook.com/waitlist
Apr 17
Figma charges $15/user/month.
Webflow charges $29/month.
Someone built an open source design tool where you visually edit your React app and the code writes itself. 23,900 stars. Free.
It's called Onlook. The Cursor for Designers.
You see your live React app. You click on any element. You drag, resize, restyle. The code updates in real time. In your actual codebase. Not a mockup. Not a prototype. Your real app.
No exporting. No handoff. No "developer please rebuild this from my Figma file."
Here's what Onlook does:
→ Open your existing React project. See it visually.
→ Click any element. Edit styles, layout, spacing, colors. Visually.
→ AI generates new components, pages, and sections from prompts.
→ Every visual change writes clean code directly to your files.
→ No separate design file. Your design IS your code. Your code IS your design.
→ Works with your existing React and Next.js projects. No migration.
→ Desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Here's the wildest part:
Designers and developers have been fighting over the same problem for 20 years. Designer makes a mockup. Developer rebuilds it from scratch. Designer says "that's not what I designed." Developer says "that's not how code works."
Onlook kills this loop. The designer edits the actual app. The code updates automatically. There's nothing to hand off. There's nothing to rebuild. There's nothing to argue about.
Figma: $15/user/month. Webflow: $29/month. Framer: $20/month. Design agencies charge $150/hour.
This is free. Open source. Apache 2.0 License.
23.9K GitHub stars. 1.8K forks. 1,634 commits.
100% Open Source.
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
Apr 14
the latest @onlookdev converges on a vision we've been working towards for so long – taking a real codebase, allowing you to edit it visually (and extremely quickly), and creating a real PR back to the codebase.
cannot wait to share what we've been working on with the world
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Feb 23
It's a big part of why I'm personally so driven by what we're doing at @onlookdev -- I want designers to lead this convergence, not get swallowed by it.
Design and engineering are merging. The question is who's driving.
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
Feb 23
The companies that win aren't replacing designers with engineers who have Claude Code. They're giving designers superpowers.
A visual canvas AI primitives design principles captured as prompts. That's the stack. That's leverage engineers can't replicate.
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
Feb 23
Here's what I'm seeing: engineers AI are already cannibalizing design roles. They ship faster, skip the system, break the details. They won't wait for a designer to catch up.
But rapid progress without design taste creates debt that kills products in the medium term.
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Onlook (YC W25) retweeted
Feb 23
The question isn't whether design becomes engineering. It's whether designers ship faster than engineers learn taste.
Engineers AI won't close the gap on design thinking and org-level craft. Designers with the right tools? They absolutely close the engineering gap.
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