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Plasmic Blog
Company blog · plasmic.app/blog · on HN as yaaangwebprogramming
Plasmic Blog is the company blog at plasmic.app, writing about web and programming. Since 2020, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “Show HN: Plasmic — web design tool that plugs into React and other codebases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link plasmic.app pages on its visual builder for React: the homepage, pricing, careers, integrations and a comparison page. None of the comments discuss the blog's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Plasmic lets you build powerful web apps super fast, from internal tools to user facing products. Integrate with your codebase for unlimited possibilities.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Plasmic — web design tool that plugs into React and other codebases11 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2020-07-17
- /4 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2021-03-01
- /3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-01-09
- How React server components work: an in-depth guide2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-24
What Hacker News says?
A tool I've experimenting with a lot recently is https://www.plasmic.app/ It outputs React code as well. But the approach is more similar to Figma. You can create components with variants etc. It can automatically sync changes to your local repo or create a pull request on GitHub.
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on “Utopia, a visual design tool for React, with code as the source of truth”Submitted Show HN: Plasmic — web design tool that plugs into React and other codebases as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI think Plasmic is doing that for React. https://www.plasmic.app/
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on “Six programming languages I’d like to see”Submitted Show HN: Plasmic – visual builder that can drag-and-drop your React components as a story · 17 points
HN discussionHere 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 Show HN: Plasmic – visual builder that can drag-and-drop your React components as a story · 11 points
HN discussionPlasmic | Bay Area | Full-time, Remote | https://www.plasmic.app/ We are an early stage software startup funded by NEA and other esteemed investors. We are creating a visual builder for React - something that is as easy to use as a design tool like Sketch/Figma (which you can also import from!) but builds production-ready React components. We want to fix design/development collaboration and simplify product developm…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted How to choose a localization approach for your React application as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI don't follow how HTML comes anything close to expressing dynamism, composition, state, Turing completeness, etc. Sure, you can encode whatever you want inside of data attributes, but that's just ignoring the problem. You still have to decide on a language to express all that within your data attributes. React server components also does not is not trying to serialize this. Quite the opposite. We have an in-depth w…
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on “Figma Alternatives”Submitted Show HN: Plasmic – all-in-one React design tool / page builder / UI builder as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPlasmic | Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time Plasmic ( https://www.plasmic.app ) is a new visual page/frontend builder that integrates with real-world production codebases. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but wonderful distributed team of 8 from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, MIT, Berkeley, including 3 ex-founders with exits and 3 ICPC world finalists. We received outlier funding offers from a n…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Plasmic – a fast and fun visual builder for React as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPlasmic | Founding Developer Advocate | Remote | Full Time View full posting on our site (HN limits comment length): https://www.plasmic.app/careers/founding-developer-advocate Plasmic is a visual builder that plugs into React and other codebases. We aim to lower the barriers for anyone to create software, but our initial wedge is the headless content management market. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Plasmic – the visual UI builder for React as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPlasmic | Bay Area | Full-time, Remote | https://www.plasmic.app/ We are an early stage software startup funded by NEA and other esteemed investors. We are creating a visual builder for React - something that is as easy to use as a design tool like Sketch/Figma (which you can also import from!) but builds production-ready React components. We want to fix design/development collaboration and simplify product developm…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)”Submitted High Performance Personalization with Next.js Middleware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPlasmic | Product Designer, Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time Plasmic ( https://www.plasmic.app ) is a new visual frontend builder / design tool that integrates with real-world production codebases. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but wonderful distributed team from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, MIT, Berkeley, including 3 ex-founders with exits and a couple of ICPC world finalists. We received…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted A/B Testing with Next.js middleware as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn the pricing page, what is "Content Ownership" and why is that only granted for enterprise customers? https://www.plasmic.app/pricing/
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on “Figma to React”Submitted How React server components work: an in-depth guide as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFramer is an awesome prototyping tool (I use it), but I would've wanted to know up-front that "export to React" comes with two huge caveats: - There's nothing stopping you from using it in production, but it isn't designed for this. What you create does not even use real layout, does not use normal HTML elements, etc.: see https://www.framer.com/support/using-framer/creating-real-ap... . - Inevitably in any real-wor…
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on “Figma to React”Submitted Plasmic.app – the visual builder for your tech stack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPlasmic ( https://www.plasmic.app ) enables this workflow—you can visually edit the design while editing behavioral code side-by-side—but with a different approach than what you described, since we want to include non-developers. (I work on this.)
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on “Figma to React”Submitted Show HN: Plasmic – visual builder that can drag-and-drop your React components as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKudos to the author for making this, these are not easy to build! I noticed this doesn't yet support a number of things in Figma: autolayout, SVG shapes, masking, blend modes, transforms, filter effects, etc. There are also numerous other Figma-to-React tools out there, but of varying quality. You need heuristics to address the impedance mismatch between the different representations and to yield something usable. I…
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on “Figma to React”Plasmic | Multiple Roles (Software Engineer, Developer Relations, Head of Growth) | Remote | Full Time Plasmic ( https://www.plasmic.app ) is a visual page/frontend builder that integrates with real-world production codebases. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but wonderful distributed team of 8 from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, MIT, Berkeley, including 3 ex-founders with exits and 4 ICPC world fina…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Plasmic | Multiple Roles (Founding Developer Advocate, Head of Growth) | Remote | Full Time Plasmic ( https://www.plasmic.app ) is a visual page/frontend builder that plugs into production codebases. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but wonderful distributed team of 8 from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, MIT, Berkeley, including 3 ex-founders with exits and 4 ICPC world finalists. We are well-funded b…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Plasmic is a web design tool / visual page builder that works deeply with code, builds web apps as well as websites, and doesn't lock you in (exports anywhere). https://www.plasmic.app It plugs into React stacks, including SSGs like Gatsby/Next.js, and continuously generates code that you can override/extend. (I work on this!)
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on “Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?”Plasmic | Founding Developer Advocate | Remote | Full Time View full posting on our site (HN limits comment length): https://www.plasmic.app/careers/founding-developer-advocate Plasmic is a visual builder that plugs into React and other codebases. We aim to lower the barriers for anyone to create software, but our initial wedge is the headless content management market. We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”> If it’s a Saas company, tech startup, design agency, or enterprise, I strongly strongly recommend Webflow for their marketing site even though they think they want JAMstack Yeeeah but no. Companies (especially those ones) can have plenty of good reasons to need more control / custom code / integrations / etc. I think a lot of people don't realize how crippling and limiting committing to Webflow can be, and how muc…
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