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Hot take: the design-to-dev handoff is software's most expensive lie. You mock it in Figma, someone rebuilds it in code, it ships 70% right, and everyone shrugs. Design engineers skip the handoff and build in the real thing. Maker is their canvas: your whole project is live and clickable on one infinite canvas, you point at what's wrong and it edits real code instead of a mockup, and it runs your dev server and maps every route automatically. Stop drawing rectangles and actually ship.
I'll say the thing everyone in the design-to-dev pipeline is too polite to say: the handoff is broken. You spend days perfecting a Figma file, hand it off, and watch it ship looking 70% right, because a mockup was never the real thing. It was a picture of the real thing.
Design engineers already figured this out. They don't draw the product and pray. They build it. So I made the tool I wanted for that:
🎨 One infinite canvas. Every page of your real project is a live, clickable preview, pan, zoom, and see your whole site as a map, not one tab at a time.
👉 Point at what's wrong. Click any element on the canvas and describe the change, it edits your actual code, not a throwaway prototype.
⚙️ It runs your real project. Maker starts your dev server, finds your routes, and drops each one onto the canvas automatically. Astro, Next, Vite, whatever you build with.
🛡️ You stay in control. Approve every change, or let it run and undo any step. It's your code the whole time.
It's an early alpha for Apple Macs, and I'd genuinely love to be told I'm wrong. So: is the design-to-dev handoff actually fine and I'm just bad at it? Or have you felt this pain too? I'm here all day, roast it, question it, ask me anything. 🙏
how does this actually handle routing for apps that use something like dynamic params or middleware-heavy setups? curious if it breaks down beyond the basic happy path
Pointing at a layout and having it edit the real code feels like cheating in the best way. The auto-mapped routes saved me from the usual config grind.
Finally tried this on a side project and pointing at a broken layout to edit the actual component felt like cheating. The route mapping saved me an hour of clicking around.
This hot take is honestly not that hot :)
We felt this a lot while building our product. the hard part is not making something look good once in a mockup, it is getting the actual product to feel right after states, edge cases, responsiveness, real content, and implementation details show up.
The “picture of the real thing” line is strong. Figma is great, but there is always a moment where the real product becomes the source of truth and the mockup starts falling behind. Maker feels interesting because it starts from the actual running project, not an imaginary clean version of it.
Curious how it handles existing design systems and messy codebases. if a project already has components, tokens, and layout conventions, does Maker learn to work inside those patterns or does it mostly make direct changes?
About Maker Design on Product Hunt
“Where design engineers build and ship”
Maker Design was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #50 on the daily leaderboard. Hot take: the design-to-dev handoff is software's most expensive lie. You mock it in Figma, someone rebuilds it in code, it ships 70% right, and everyone shrugs. Design engineers skip the handoff and build in the real thing. Maker is their canvas: your whole project is live and clickable on one infinite canvas, you point at what's wrong and it edits real code instead of a mockup, and it runs your dev server and maps every route automatically. Stop drawing rectangles and actually ship.
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Sunny ☀️
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Sunny, the maker of Maker.
I'll say the thing everyone in the design-to-dev pipeline is too polite to say: the handoff is broken. You spend days perfecting a Figma file, hand it off, and watch it ship looking 70% right, because a mockup was never the real thing. It was a picture of the real thing.
Design engineers already figured this out. They don't draw the product and pray. They build it. So I made the tool I wanted for that:
🎨 One infinite canvas. Every page of your real project is a live, clickable preview, pan, zoom, and see your whole site as a map, not one tab at a time.
👉 Point at what's wrong. Click any element on the canvas and describe the change, it edits your actual code, not a throwaway prototype.
⚙️ It runs your real project. Maker starts your dev server, finds your routes, and drops each one onto the canvas automatically. Astro, Next, Vite, whatever you build with.
🛡️ You stay in control. Approve every change, or let it run and undo any step. It's your code the whole time.
It's an early alpha for Apple Macs, and I'd genuinely love to be told I'm wrong. So: is the design-to-dev handoff actually fine and I'm just bad at it? Or have you felt this pain too? I'm here all day, roast it, question it, ask me anything. 🙏