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This is just selling components someone else wrote, right?

Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matter of seeing others work, taking a screenshot, asking ai to recreate it, and then packaging it into a “library” and selling it for $50.

Maybe I’m alone in the sentiment, but it just rubs me the wrong way.

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AI isn’t quite at the point where it can recreate high-quality UI components just from a screenshot. Everything in this library was built by hand — no AI, no copied code. Just pure design and engineering effort. There’s a lot of work you don’t see on the surface.

> Just pure design and engineering effort

Made my day. At least they have guts. I give them that.

Which model can recreate complex animations from a screenshot? That would be incredibly impressive.

Any leading model. Ask it to generate the ui from the screenshot. Follow up and describe the required animations, and it will give you the css/js. Do it all the time.

Oh, I see. I haven't had much luck generating UI from screenshots, but describing an UI (or animations) clearly does usually get me 75% or more of the way there. I thought I might have been missing something critical.

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