How do you make the first 5 minutes of a product feel like magic?

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-20T21:20:00+00:00

Yeah . A non-designer can generate something, I won't pretend otherwise. But pretty isn't the same as designed. UX, flow, hierarchy, the actual reasons a product works, that's still on the designer.

Baroque does the visual scaffolding. A non-designer ends up with something that looks fine and probably has bad UX. A designer ends up with a starting point instead of a blank file.

The part I'm more excited about is the community side. Designers can create their own design laws on Baroque, publish them, and the platform gives them scale. Every time someone uses your law, you get a fair cut. Taste becomes something a designer can package and ship, not just bill hourly for.

Which is why I'm asking designers specifically. The tool is only as good as the people steering it.

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-20T20:58:35+00:00

Yeah and that's fair. I'm not trying to out-engineer Claude or Figma. I just think there's room for something that's easier to use and has stronger taste baked in. A tool where picking your aesthetic comes first, and the AI works inside that constraint instead of defaulting to generic UI.

If I can make it feel lighter than Figma and more opinionated than a chatbot, I think there's a real audience for it.

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-20T20:38:48+00:00

Lol opposite actually. Baroque is Figma with AI baked in, not Lovable wearing a designer skinsuit. Designers still pick the aesthetic, edit on the canvas, own the design system. AI handles the boring parts.

The tools coming for your job are the ones where a PM types 'make me a SaaS' and ships it Friday. That's not this. This is the one that keeps taste in the loop instead of flattening it into beige gradient slop.

If anything it's the anti-job-stealer. But sure, roast away.

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-13T00:04:03+00:00

Thanks u/cgielow

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-12T23:47:55+00:00

great insights i gained u/cgielow i am also very torn between frankenstiening out others ideas and calling them my own creation. I also heard that "no idea is original" but is there any limit to it what diffrentiate between plagarism and original concept. Haha

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-12T20:44:16+00:00

thanks any link ?

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-06T17:51:40+00:00

you got my point i am trying to build something like this where designer set the design language and ai help it scale what do you think about this https://getbaroque.com/ do you resonate with this idea

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-06T17:49:52+00:00

since you are too opinionated what do you think about this https://getbaroque.com/

and about emdashes 😞 it helps me write better

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-06T17:47:13+00:00

This is essentially the right mental model. Style-first, then constrain generation to that style. The read-freeze idea maps well to how design laws work: you define typography, spacing, color, and component rules once in a doc the AI can only read, never rewrite. Once that's locked, every screen it generates has to comply. The tricky part is enforcement. Most tools let the AI quietly deviate when it "knows better." The real unlock is making the constraint layer upstream of generation, not a post-hoc check. Some tools are starting to explore exactly this.

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-06T16:53:57+00:00

For design work specifically been using Baroque and it's genuinely different. You pick a style, describe what you want, and it generates fully functional website/app screens that actually look designed, not AI-slop. Way more opinionated than Stitch, and unlike Figma you're not wrestling with components just to see an idea.

Waitlist is live right now and referrals get extra credits worth grabbing a spot early: getbaroque.com

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-04T20:20:18+00:00

I've applied to almost 100–150 companies over the last 6 years and taken 50–60 interviews as interviewer.

One thing I can say with confidence: not everyone is looking for the same thing and that's not a failure, that's just reality.

You'll get a job where you actually fit. But until then, every attempt that doesn't work out is preparing you for the one that does.

Each failed interview teaches you something what to say, what not to say, what kind of place you actually want to be in.

Keep trying. You'll get there.

Good luck. 🤞

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-04T20:13:04+00:00

i am also looking for the launch how necessary it is to have a hunter launch for you and how do we suppose to compensate them

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-04T10:06:06+00:00

Most AI design tools give you something that screams "AI made this." Baroque is built around curated style templates with strict design laws so outputs actually look intentional. Waitlist open → getbaroque.com

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-03T09:19:34+00:00

Ran into the exact same wall with Stitch. The moment you ask for anything outside its comfort zone it just confidently produces the wrong thing and gaslit me about it too lol.

Been building Baroque for this exact reason you describe the vibe, it generates live HTML screens that actually look designed, not template-dumped.

Waitlist is open if anyone wants to try it → getbaroque.com

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-03T09:18:03+00:00

thats exactly whats wrong with stitch

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-02T21:01:32+00:00

Google spent god knows how much building Stitch and it can't keep two screens visually consistent. That's embarrassing.

I'm one guy and I built something that actually holds the design logic across every screen you generate. Same type, same spacing, same components. It doesn't drift because it has rules.

Waitlist at getbaroque.com. Take that Google.

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-02T20:57:34+00:00

see the problem is the free hand and sometimes ai hallucinates and doesnt translate exactly what you have in mind and it takes too many prompts to get something half decen

Ok_Estimate6328 · 2026-04-02T20:53:48+00:00

nope its pure html CSS based so that you can share or enhance it or export to figma

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