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Builder.io
Company blog · builder.io/blog · on HN as ca136programmingwebai
Builder.io is the company blog at builder.io, writing about programming, web and ai. Since 2019, 66 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times, most often “Builder.io – Drag and drop experience builder – Builder.io”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention builder.io as a visual CMS and page-builder product, often alongside Plasmic and Figma plugins. A few comments link its JavaScript blog posts, such as structured clone and signals vs observables.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
One codebase for engineers, designers, PMs, and marketers. Everyone works from one source of truth, on brand and in code, with no handoffs to clean up.
Most-linked posts?
- Builder.io – Drag and drop experience builder – Builder.io7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-12-22
- Deep cloning objects in JavaScript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-19
- Visual Copilot: A Better Figma-to-Code Workflow3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-12
- Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-07-29
- Training Your Own AI Model Is Not as Hard as You (Probably) Think2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-22
- The Unintended Consequences of Open Sourcing Software2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-29
- Builder.io: Design to Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-26
- Valibot, a < 1kb Zod Alternative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-25
- Safer URL reading and writing in modern JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-10
- My best Claude Code tips2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-12
What Hacker News says?
Here are some other exciting products in the space: https://www.plasmic.app/ https://www.builder.io/ https://clutch.io/ https://builderx.io/ https://dynaboard.com/ Each one has a slightly different take on the problem, and some of these are turning out to be quite useful for teams. I'm very curious to see how things will shape up. I find Aspect to be particularly beautiful, a nice clean UI great work!
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on “Show HN: A Visual IDE for React”Submitted Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring as a story · 226 points
HN discussionThere are a lot of Figma plugins to do that. Anima or Builder.io (not builder.ai) is one I've used before. I'd like to add a simple plugin for us to use if we ever have the capacity. - https://www.animaapp.com/figma - https://www.builder.io/c/docs/builder-figma-plugin
Comment linking /c/docs/builder-figma-plugin
on “Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers”Submitted Deep cloning objects in JavaScript as a story · 201 points
HN discussionBuilder.io | San Francisco, CA or Remote | Software Engineer, Tech Support, Head of User Operations Builder.io ( https://www.builder.io ) is a visual editor and CMS that connects to any platform or tech stack allowing anyone to create and edit content visually. We're a small team of experienced developers backed by leading Silicon Valley VCs. We currently have 3 open roles: - Software Engineer (React + Node.js): htt…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)”Submitted Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site as a story · 109 points
HN discussionClasses generally point you towards writing more performant code. Factory functions allow you to achieve the same performance, you just have to be a bit more careful not to cause a depot :) For example, 1. field declarations [1] make sure that the fields are always initialized in the same order. That way most of your functions end up monomorphic, instead of being polymorphic [2] 2. Method declarations are also (almo…
Comment linking /blog/monomorphic-javascript
on “Proposal: JavaScript Structs”Submitted Hydration is pure overhead as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI think there's a typo in the cloneDeep example[1]. cloneDeep is imported but never used, and structuredClone is used instead. [1]: https://www.builder.io/blog/structured-clone#why-not-code-cl...
Comment linking /blog/structured-clone
on “Deep cloning objects in JavaScript”Submitted Show HN: Builder.io – Drag and drop page building for any site as a story · 15 points
HN discussionClicking on the builder.io link redirects me to: https://uc.appengine.google.com/_ah/conflogin?state=%7E ... which says: An application is requesting permission to access your Google Account. Please select an account that you would like to use. EDIT: you can see it if you go to http://builder.io (https works fine)
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on “JavaScript hydration is a workaround, not a solution”Submitted Show HN: Turn Figma into working apps without coding (Designer –> Production) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionNot at all - you can easily balance your usage of Builder and your own code as much as you like. You can put Builder content within your code components, and you can easily use your code components within the Builder content. Take a look at this for a real example you can play with on how you can have some pages powered by Builder and some fully in your react/typescript code https://codesandbox.io/s/github/BuilderIO…
Comment linking /c/docs/custom-react-components
on “Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site”Submitted My best Claude Code tips as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThanks! And what you ask for is actually possible in two ways - One is to use webhooks to side load the data. Aka when people publish content in Builder, it will trigger a webhook sending the data to an API of yours to store and then serve how you like. You can see some docs on that here https://builder.io/c/docs/webhooks (and feel free to reach out for further explanation - I'll create a detailed guide on this at s…
Comment linking /c/docs/webhooks
on “Show HN: Drag and drop page building for any site”Submitted Qwik and Qwik City have reached beta as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAs long as it’s still difficult to create a (usable & reliable) site editor, these services will keep being subscription only. It annoys me when they try to make it look open source but it’s only a glorified api client.. same with builder.io [0] [0] https://www.builder.io/m/visual-cms
Comment linking /m/visual-cms
on “Plasmic – A headless page builder”Submitted Why React Server Components Are Breaking Builds to Win Tomorrow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThere’s a difference, see https://www.builder.io/blog/signals-vs-observables
Comment linking /blog/signals-vs-observables
on “State-based vs Signal-based rendering”Submitted Don't blame the developer for what the frameworks did as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou might like Builder.io ( https://www.builder.io/m/developers ) - they let you embed drag-n-drop powered sections within your regular page markup, and it looks like they support most frameworks like svelte.
Comment linking /m/developers
on “Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG”Submitted A Guide to Server-Side Rendering as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnd builder doesn’t force you to use the steaming pile of comically bad abstractions that is React! https://www.builder.io/m/svelte
Comment linking /m/svelte
on “Show HN: React Bricks, The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing”Submitted I Didn't Become a Developer to Review AI Slop as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing." is a very, very bold statement. https://www.builder.io/
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on “Show HN: React Bricks, The only headless CMS with true Visual Editing”Submitted Visual Copilot: A Better Figma-to-Code Workflow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is really slick! A really fluid and intuitive interface. We use https://react-page.github.io/ (also MIT licensed) extensively at my startup; it attacks the same problem, and it's been incredibly effective (and hackable!). Generally speaking, owning your own CMS data, in your own database, with a well-documented JSON data format, and adding the ability to take any React component you've written (that itself may…
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on “Show HN: An open source visual editor for React”Submitted Is OpenAI's o1 model worth it? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://www.builder.io/ can drop into existing websites, static and framework. Pretty cool stuff, though unfortunately the interesting part is closed source. You can request the page once from their API and then save it for serving (rather than using their default method / setup). https://grapesjs.com is an open source option, but will require some investment to get it working for your situation. There is also Wordp…
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on “Ask HN: Tools that enable non-technical users to edit simple static HTML pages?”Submitted The Unintended Consequences of Open Sourcing Software as a story · 3 points
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