langcss.com is a site that let's you use AI to design tailwind CSS interfaces. It is very early right now, I did a Show HN post, and got 40 people sign up from the waitlist.
I intend to work solely on this and not switch. Getting the initial interest from HN has made me decide do this, based on the power of sticking to one thing (and people seeing the same thing mentioned again and again is good for marketing), vs. pivoting all the time.
However I can't guarantee I wont pivot. But I don't intend to, and frankly I enjoy the middle part of coding something more than the beginning part!
If you want to try what I have made as a very rough prototype - visit https://langcss.com/demo
Pricing has not been figured out, but I feel something like $30/m per user, maybe more, once it is decently featured (i.e. not what is there now) to attract people who really want to use it, and have fewer better customers than a $5 or $10/m product. There would be some usage based element to it too obviously as AI costs money!
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3.00Update: new release that just adds pricing and a way to pay, restricts the demo. Will prompote a bit and see if anyone bites! They probably wont at the full price. I will then throw some discounts out in the usual places. I'll share hear when they exist. Demo: https://langcss.com/demo
If anyone is using the site, and has comments I would love to know what you think. I am dogfooding it, and I think the next steps are to polish it, both in terms of handling curved balls thrown by the AI and just making the editing experience nice.
Then my thought is to add a library of standard solutions which can be accessed via lookup (RAG) or feeding some questions to GPT3.5-turbo to decide which to include in the prompt. So when you say "can I have a gradient text header that says "Cool"" it is supplied with a stock answer for a good gradient text header.
Eventually if it takes off I would look at it running the tailwind compiler in the browser. But that is advanced!
@Undox I remember testing out the tool when this market came out and now can't seem to find where to access it, so I've added my e-mail to the waitlist in case I haven't already done that.
@LuisCostigan thanks Luis. Please let me know if it is helpful, or if there is something that you hit that made you lose interest (which is OK, but I am curious to see what it is). I am always wanting to see how it can be improved. I know it isn't "production ready" yet in the sense there are a lot of missing basic features, but I am working on them!
I have done nothing on this for a month or so due to moving family and house 300km! I will try and send an email to the list explaining that and that new improvements might come soon. I got an email with a $11 bill from OpenAI for January which can only be from this so it proves there are some users (or hackers using the credits for general AI!).
@maxhumber yes good point. The goal is to specialise enough that this is a much better experience than ChatGPT at this one thing. The analogy would be buying food at the market vs. Vietnamese restaurant.
@LuisCostigan thanks. The wait list is there on the home page. It will not be spammy (I dislike writing emails!) and just some occasional updates about once a month.