Show HN: Mowgli – Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export

Show HN: Mowgli – Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export(mowgli.ai)

6 points by thegeomaster 78 days ago | 4 comments

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!)

stoff81 73 days ago |

Just gave it a go, wonderful experience. Im about to get a 1 month sub, just to download the pack.

Some initial feedback: - Would be great if I could pay with USDC per download or per credit rather than a subscription. - I signed up with my agents email, now I have to pay, theres no way to hand off billing to another user (me). Team/members would be appreciated - Im begining to wonder how this might integrate with my design agent, reach out if you are interested to talk more. I emailed you about the team/member issue.

How can I keep up to date with your developments? X/Discord?

thegeomaster 70 days ago | |

Thank you so much for the kind words and for the feedback!

1. Duly noted on USDC and other payment options - I have to see how easy this is do to as we're using stripe.

2. Teams and orgs are very high on the priority list and we hope to have something on this front very soon.

To keep up with our development, Discord is probably the best place: https://discord.gg/ptDRKRJpPV

bhargav 78 days ago |

One UX concern: the app appears to push multiple entries into the browser history without meaningful route changes. This makes the back button require stepping through redundant states before returning to the previous site.

That behavior breaks expected browser navigation and can feel like back-button hijacking, which is generally considered a UX anti-pattern. It would be better to push history state only at meaningful navigation boundaries.

Sharing this in the spirit of constructive feedback.

thegeomaster 75 days ago | |

Thanks for the feedback! I'm trying to fix that. The trouble is actually that changing the src of an iframe on a page pushes an entry into the history implicitly. Since we use iframes to display the contents of designs, and they can update, this results in a lot of state history pollution. Will prioritize!