Skip to content
repository radar
Coding & Dev Tools

🎨onlook

ACTIVE STEADY

onlook-dev/onlook · homepage ↗

The Cursor for Designers • An Open-Source AI-First Design tool • Visually build, style, and edit your React App with AI

⭐ Very popular: 26k stars, gaining about 56 a week

View on GitHub ↗

repo profile

vintage 2024 2 years old
delivery product
language TypeScript
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 26k
stars added last week +56
HN peak 408 pts 1y 2mo ago
binary downloads 443k total · GitHub releases
used by 2 repos & packages
commits / week 0 cooling · -100% vs prior mo
issues closed 38% ~3d to close, median
contributors 108
release cadence fortnightly
last activity 25d ago

durability

backing VC-backed Y Combinator
openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 57% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 598/mo (+3%/mo) · + 9k total since PR#10

why it's a big deal

  • Bridges the designer-developer gap with visual editing that writes real, production-ready code.
  • Full GitHub integration: import repos, create branches, and open PRs directly from the editor.
  • Open-source under Apache 2.0 with an active YC-backed team.

under the hood

  • Built with Next.js, TailwindCSS, tRPC, Supabase, and Drizzle ORM.
  • Uses the CodeSandbox SDK for dev sandboxes and Freestyle for hosting.
  • AI powered by OpenRouter and fast-apply models from Morph and Relace.

our take from PR#25, 2026-01-14

star history

PR#10 · 18k PR#25 · 24k26k now Jun 2024Aug 2026
  1. PR#10 18k 2025-06-11
  2. PR#25 24k 2026-01-14
  3. now 26k + 9k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-47 understory score output 12 · clout 59
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#25 2026-01-14 on the radar

    Visual code editor for React + Tailwind

  • PR#10 2025-06-11 on the radar

    he cursor for designers: a visual-first AI code editor for building React apps

similar projects

compare these →
  • 🤖 Sim Studio

    Sim is the collaborative workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and workflows. Used by 100,000+ builders.

    29k ACTIVE
  • 🎨 taste-skill

    JavaScript · 2.9× the stars

    Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop

    77k ACTIVE
  • 🧠 oh-my-opencode

    2.6× the stars

    omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, for your OpenCode

    68k ACTIVE

comments

Sign in with GitHub to add your blip on onlook.

loading comments…