Design to code in 1 click

Happy Tuesday! What does it take to build a Golden Kitty Award-winning product? Check out our interview with Bobby Pinero, founder of Equals, to find out. 

📷 Wyze says a breach allowed people to briefly see into other people’s homes. 

💍 Samsung is reportedly working on a smart ring and it could launch by July. 

🕹️ If you’ve got a Vision Pro, you can play a GameBoy on it.

No matter how much time and effort you put into optimizing the designer-to-developer pipeline, your team will likely still encounter bottlenecks. Converting a design into a product, pixel for pixel, is no easy task, but what if you could automate most of it? 

Locofy is a Singpore-based, front-end development platform that wants to help makers ship their products 10x faster by employing AI, and it’s got the backing to do it, too, after raising $7.5 million from investors like Accel and Northstar Ventures.

Having originally launched in 2022, the team is back with its latest product, Locofy Lightning. Locofy Lightning is a Figma plugin that takes your design and converts it into deploy-ready, front-end code with just a single click.

It’s built upon the company’s own Large Design Models (LDM), which analyze visual assets before transforming them into code, similar to how GPT-4 understands what you’re asking and responds appropriately.

According to co-founder Honey Mittal, Lightning is an evolution of the team's original offering, which at the time made users go through a number of steps before getting the final output. After receiving feedback from over 250k developers, designers, and builders, the team set out to build a more seamless experience by condensing all these steps, like tagging, grouping, and class names, into a single click. 

Once you generate your code, you can then review it along with your team of developers and designers with an interactive preview so you can make sure there isn’t a pixel out of place. 

Locofy Lightning is currently only available on Figma, but it might be making its way to other platforms like Sketch, Adobe XD, and even Notion later on in the year.

• Shopper lets you create synced shopping lists and store discount codes. 
• Yearly lets you visualize your habits and moods on a heatmap calendar. 
• Pushup Quest is a mobile app that helps you achieve your fitness goals.

• Stey uses AI to help you optimize your site’s copy for conversion.
• CodeEdit is a code editor that comes with code completion, a terminal, and more. 
• Supergrow helps you build your LinkedIn audience by crafting engaging content.