Mowgli – Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export
Hi HN! We're excited to announce the public beta of Mowgli, a spec-backed, AI-native design canvas for scoping and ideating on products. The productivity gains unleashed by coding agents have made everything else an unexpected bottleneck. In an effort to make the most out of this new paradigm, we ceded a lot of ground in product thinking, thoughtful UX, and design excellence. In other words, the pace of tooling for deciding what to build has not kept up. Mowgli is inspired by, in equal parts, Figma and Claude's plan mode. It evolves a detailed specification and designs for every screen and…
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Hi HN! We're excited to announce the public beta of Mowgli, a spec-backed, AI-native design canvas for scoping and ideating on products. The productivity gains unleashed by coding agents have made everything else an unexpected bottleneck. In an effort to make the most out of this new paradigm, we ceded a lot of ground in product thinking, thoughtful UX, and design excellence. In other words, the pace of tooling for deciding what to build has not kept up. Mowgli is inspired by, in equal parts, Figma and Claude's plan mode. It evolves a detailed specification and designs for every screen and state of the product on an infinite canvas. Owing to this UI, it can quickly mock up new features and flows, redesign existing ones, and show you variations side by side. LLMs are amazing at helping you explore vast solution spaces, but most current tooling focuses on getting narrowly perfect output based on a well-defined spec. We try to bridge that gap with Mowgli. When you're ready to build, Mowgli offers a .zip export with a SPEC.md and unopinionated design .tsx files for your screens, in a perfect format for coding agents. Or alternatively, full, pixel-perfect export of all screens to Figma. In this early stage, we support two entrypoints: (1) building a product from scratch through a guided experience, or (2) importing an existing product from Figma. We have a powerful, almost pixel-perfect Figma to code + spec pipeline that works on files of any size - from 0 to 300+ frames. We're working hard on other ways to get your existing products into Mowgli (and would appreciate hearing about what you would like!) - Timelapse of making a functional second brain app in Mowgli + Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOoy8WDmMA - Sample project designed and specced entirely by Mowgli (demo, no login needed): https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmluzdfa0000v01p91l5r61e3?the... - Sample Figma import of the whole Posthog product, ready for iteration: https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmkl0zqng000101lo8yn2gqvd?dem... (thanks PostHog for being radically open with public Figma files!)
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