alexdanilowicz

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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
co-founder of Magic Patterns here, saw were were mentioned, figured I'd chime in: We don't use Trigger for marketing at all and I actually never thought of it for that use case. We're an AI design tool - prompt to create an i
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
As someone who currently "bricks" his phone and has gamified it a bit by sharing my stats with my brother-in-law who also does that, this is cool. I do think "not spending time on your phone" needs to be celebrated more.
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Love this one! Thanks for sharing! Lol at: > You and Max have liked each other!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
that's great feedback, thanks!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
We always iterating and definitely need to improve! Anything you can point to explicitly that makes the canvas feel clunky/half finished? We're using a simple div under the hood! To add some color: while we do generate code, we do
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
100%. This is what we hear and see from our customers, many now skipping Figma entirely. I shared this post before below, but to share it again: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephenwitmer_you-gotta-love-...
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
oof! this is a bad bug that seemed to tick up overnight! Fixing this, thanks for flagging. If you create a support chat via "Get Support" or DM me happy to throw you some credits and regenerate it for you.
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
I mention this in another comment: v0 has been around as long as we have (October 2023), so it's very cool seeing how we have both iterated on the same problems, especially given Vercel is a $3B company and we are a team of two :-) We
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
We have been around for 2 years and at one point had "contact us for pricing", so don't worry not changing anything on n=1!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
ah thanks for letting me know, that happened to me once too. will adjust the logic!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Yep! It's all React under the hood, and the default is Tailwind. You can also sync to Github directly.
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
I wouldn't be scared because in practice we don't see this! Instead we see 1. devs appreciating getting an interactive mockup and 2. the PM having a better sense of what it's like to build technically. (It's pretty cool
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
> How did you manage to cut through the noise? In startup land, I think it's really important you love your customer. Because you cut through the noise by having your existing customers tell their friends about you. 30% of new use
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
On https://www.magicpatterns.com/ you should see an input box. Type anything you want, hit enter, and then you'll get hit with our regular login panel. But at the bottom, for today online, you'll see a "Comin
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
> or even easier, the number of subscription months/years. We do offer 20% off on annual plans! ;) We're very proud to be largely self-serve and have pricing that is completely transparent right now. Of course, we're open
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Two features that are the direct result of customer feedback and consistent product iteration!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
I don't think generating images would be faster than generating code, plus you lose all the interactivity. Many designers tell us where they get the most value out of Magic Patterns is that the designs are interactive by default, unlik
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
> Maybe capping the size of a team on the "pro" plan would be an inbetween That's interesting. We already have teams with 20+ folks on it today at very large companies, but haven't thought about that type of stuff too
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
I love what you wrote in the other thread too: > "The hard part of being an engineer is not writing JavaScript. It is building a solution that addresses the essential complexity of a problem without adding accidental complexity.&quo
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
I wrote answer to that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43752176#43757543 - let me know if I can answer anything specifically! What I'll add is we are seeing customers use Magic Patterns + other 'vibe cod
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
1. We're using Sonnet 3.7 for the first prompt. I've noticed with some prompts that require lots of files it can be PAINFULLY slow. Our servers also might be getting slammed from the HN traffic. We have a "fast" mode tha
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
v0 is an amazing product. They've been around as long as we have (October 2023), and it's cool seeing how we have both iterated on the same problems. Some differences with v0: - Magic Patterns has a Figma-style canvas for collabor
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
What do you mean by "single shot?" Are you referring to one-shot prompting? I should have clarified in my post — we do have customers who one-shot designs - but that's very rare (it's usually landing pages because Sonnet
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
> have you found the benefit of large LLMs already having detailed React training is just too high? This. We've tried a lot. We have been around since Oct 2023. First tried fine-tuning, but it's very hard to teach an LLM someth
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Good to hear from you and see you on here!
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
If it's helpful, the styling will be in the "jsx" file vs the css file! So when you use that "manual click-to-select-objects" feature in the chat bar, you can click on "Highlight Code" and then that will t
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Our largest customers generally use us to prototype brand new UIs versus existing ones, so you're spot on. We're certainly better at new UIs versus existing UIs. Existing UIs are tough because you need to first recreate what you h
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing. I like how Gemini used pure HTML/CSS to start. While we certainly do constraint it, it still should be able to manage creating a Rubik cube solver (even though that is definitely not the i
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Well the good news is you can export to Figma! https://www.magicpatterns.com/docs/documentation/get-started... Feel free to DM me if anything else comes to mind, can even hop on a Zoom too. Appreciate the response
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by alexdanilowicz 1y ago
Nice of you to comment! Website looks awesome. In the earliest days of the product, we were hyper-focused on custom component libraries. We connected to Github repos and then fetched the relevant components for every prompt. We no longer do

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