| ▲ | Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers(marcua.net) |
| 80 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 10 comments |
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| ▲ | johnhtodd an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Works sporadically - some sites just have no "copied to clipboard" even after a 3-4 minute delay. However, works enough that it's quite useful to have in the inventory of tools - thanks, random internet link! |
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| ▲ | president_zippy 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Figma balls! https://youtu.be/IBA5hPbOw5I |
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| ▲ | burner420042 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I use bookmarklets for a number of simple things. My most used is to copy text where the formatting has been stripped, the bookmarklet prepends formatting instructions, and then I paste the whole thing into claude which sorts the formatting. Me thinks I've underestimated what can be done with these. |
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| ▲ | hahajk 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Absolutely. If your account has access to the data, you can basically rewrite a website using a bookmarklet. I wanted a friends feed in eBird (its social model is inscrutable) and ask Claude to make a bookmarklet that showed the most recent lists of my friends sorted chronologically. One shot and done. Our internal corporate CRM is siloed data queries spread across overlapping views. I have a bookmarklet overlay my own interface on top and fetch data using the existing session token. (which is transparent/automatic - your browser just hangs on to the session cookies for the fetch calls) | |
| ▲ | robby_w_g 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Bookmarklets were definitely more powerful than I anticipated, but they’re tricky to version and upgrade. I’ve deployed a bookmarklet for non-technical users to some success, but I’d generally lean towards browser extensions for anything that needs to be maintained and distributed long-term. |
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| ▲ | noobplus 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The authenticated-page support is what caught my attention. Being able to grab an internal dashboard or admin UI and get editable Figma layers from it could save quite a bit of tedious recreation work. |
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| ▲ | dataviz1000 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That is a good way to get sued for breach of contract. Have you ever read the contract you had to click agree to in order to get access to the internal dashboard? Most likely you agreed to not do what this product does. It is also a very easy win for a company to just focus on the one stolen element or component in a lawsuit to knock competition out of the space and has happened multiple times. | | |
| ▲ | ffsm8 19 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Fwiw, you may be misunderstanding them. In large corps you usually have separate teams for the UX design to the frontend devs and the people specifying the features. In such a scenario the UX designer can utilize such a bookmarklet to get a quick copy of the existing dashboard into figma to then iterate on the UX and try out different approaches for that specified feature. This scenario would not be in violation of any terms and it's unclear what noobplus was actually thinking of |
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| ▲ | Uptrenda 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not much to add here but wanted to say I very much support having more people show video demos when they do show hn. |
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| ▲ | ggangsir 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is cool. How do you implemment it? |
