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jjcm 2 hours ago

Not to undercut the open source nature of this, but what makes this "beautiful"? From a design standpoint, it's basic tailwind. Neutral grey tailwind at that, using Lucide icons. There's nothing wrong with these, but it'd be more apt to say that the design is unopinionated. It's the default choice when design intent is the afterthought and a focus is on functionality.

Again, not trying to undercut - looks like a solid agent interface, it just struck me as strange that beautiful was the adjective chosen when design seems to not be the objective here.

ASalazarMX 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When I see "Beautiful", I automatically ignore it. Beauty is subjective, fashion changes. Bootstrap or React were considered beautiful in their time.

So basically an open source agentic GUI. Instead of "beautiful", it should emphasize what makes it special. Is it fast or lightweight? Does it do something other tools don't? Or does it do it better? What's it killer feature?

Lalabadie 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

(Designer here) I like checking up what a product looks like when it's pitched as "beautiful". Mostly there are two ways to really meet that promise:

    1. Masterful application of a trend (Stripe, Raycast)
    2. Strong and recognizable personality (!boring, Notion, OG Basecamp)
Option 2 is the most accessible to small teams, but it's not an intuitive conclusion to draw. Both need an experienced designer to succeed, but option 1 sounds like it's a safe bet instead of a leap.

Most claimed "beautiful" products result from work done without the experience & taste to tell option 1 apart from an attempt at option 1.

In reality, you can pull off a strong personality and a clumsy execution, whereas following a trend clumsily looks like failing to read the room, and leaves you looking dated almost instantly.

encodedrose 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do think it's possible for one to qualify/quantify the how and why they deemed their product "beautiful". Unfortunately...that wasn't done here and at first glance it seems very indistribution.

arikrahman an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have the same reaction, it goes into a discard pile for me.

jxxnhvcdd 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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