Subframe

Name: Subframe
Rating: 4.86 (8 reviews)

Ship beautiful product UI in minutes

4.9•8 reviews•

875 followers

Ship beautiful product UI in minutes

4.9•8 reviews•

875 followers

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Subframe lets you visually build your product UI using real components. Start with stunning templates personalized to your theme. Design your UI with our intuitive drag-and-drop editor. Then, save hours of engineering time by never having to write CSS again.

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Hey PH! I’m Irvin, CEO of Subframe (https://subframe.com/) Back in 2022, I started Subframe as a passion project because I was frustrated by the inefficiencies in building UI: 🤯 My team wasted hours drawing rectangles in Figma, translating mockups to CSS, and sitting in meetings correcting the mistakes. 🤯 I tried Figma plugins that promised design-to-code, but rarely produced high-quality code. 🤯 As a non-designer, I couldn’t get things to look good when I tried designing it myself. That’s why we built Subframe, a new way to quickly go from idea to production-ready UI. Here’s how it works: ✨ Browse hundreds of beautiful, designer-approved templates to kickstart your designs 🎨 Refine your designs by drag-and-dropping in Subframe’s visual editor using real components, not mockups 💻 Export your designs to high-quality React/Tailwind code by copy and pasting Subframe is unlike existing tools out there in that: ➡️ We help you build your actual product, not just marketing pages. You can create screens like dashboards, settings pages, chat bots, and more. ➡️ Our editor is easy and intuitive for non-designers. We are an alternative to Figma that gives you guardrails like choosing colors, which takes the guesswork of “making things look good”. ➡️ We work within your codebase. After you build something on Subframe, the UI code you copy/paste is all yours. You can hook it up to your custom business logic, without any lock-in. We’ve seen hundreds of companies build UI on Subframe already and are excited to now open up to the public. And that’s not all – we have an exciting roadmap ahead. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/@irvin_zhan/i... Thank you for your support PH 🙏

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2yr ago

Yesware

@irvin_zhan @irvin_at_subframe I love how easy this is to get started, especially with templates

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2yr ago

Valuemetrix

@irvin_at_subframe great, congratulations on launch! Supported

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2yr ago

Valuemetrix

@irvin_zhan @irvin_at_subframe congrats on the launch, supported

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2yr ago

Have you tried Framer? How is Subframe better then this and why should we switch? We don't fully enjoy Framer tho, that's why I'm asking if we might try to go 😁

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2yr ago

@mattisssa having used both, I could not recommend Subframe more highly. It's a) way faster to build interfaces in Subframe and b) Quality of the generated Tailwind is much higher c) much better for product UI (vs. just marketing pages)

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2yr ago

@dominic_whyte thought about the same after going through the demo

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2yr ago

🔌 Plugged in

I'm the kind of startup CEO that gets stuck doing all the design in the early stages until we hire a pro (we had one very successful exit using this model, so it's not all bad). I've been using Subframe in beta for about a month now (and am now on a paid plan) for some new ideas we've been working on, and I’ve been incredibly impressed with what I was able to accomplish super rapidly with subframe. It’s definitely a step above tools like Framer/Webflow in speed of use (and of course better at building tools as opposed to pure marketing sites), and a hundred steps above coding tailwind directly. Subframe has a (nearly) perfect abstraction of design. I don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can quickly build. The stack system is by far the most intuitive I’ve seen, is much quicker to implement than e.g. Framer and way better than the way Figma handles grouping layouts, and makes laying out the entire UX a dream. I've now found that I'm using Subframe to prototype UI instead of Figma. I think some of the best design emerges from constraint. When you are faced with the blank canvas of Figma, you can put anything on there. There are UI libraries out there but it’s a mess and you can’t easily just drag the important stuff on. So, you have freedom, but it’s slow. In contrast, with subframe, 80% of the things I’m likely to need on a page are there at my fingertips. I don’t need to think about organisation and layout, just about what the ideal UX would be. Most importantly, my cofounder/CTO has been able to take the code and implement it within minutes. No messing around with Figma to Tailwind plugins that require your Figma designs to be perfectly structured... There are features missing I'd love to see (mainly a bit more flexibility) but the team have been great at listening to ideas and feedback and none of the missing features stop this from being the very best tool out there in this space I've used so far. I can't wait to see where it goes from here. Congrats Irvin, and all the team.

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2yr ago

Subframe

Maker

@thomasrweaver Wow! I'm really humbled to hear this Tom, thank you so much for these kind words. We're just as excited to support you and Chris's journey – it's what motivates us to build every day. We couldn't have gotten to where we are now without feedback & support from users like you. Thank you.

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2yr ago

Stellar AI

Congrats on the launch! Love that we have access to the underlying code after building it - tired of twiddling with frameworks that don't actually work. How fast does it take to make something? Want to check it out!

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2yr ago

Subframe

Maker

@quanxzhou Go sign up! One of my favorite features is the "Snippets" tab in the Insert menu on the left – it gives you larger prebuilt building blocks like entire page sections :)

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2yr ago

Contra

Congrats on the launch! 🎊 Is this something that could replace either Retool or Figma from my tech stack? 👀

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2yr ago

Subframe

Maker

@communitymadi Yes! Those are tools that serve very different purposes, but we get users who do that all the time.

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2yr ago

Hey, Irvin, always interested in quick web building platforms. Subframe looks quite good, I will definitely try it out. I wanted to ask do you offer other CSS frameworks apart from Tailwind? I am familiar with Tailwind and I understand why it makes exporting the code easier. Otherwise congratulations on the launch. 🚀🚀🚀

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2yr ago

Subframe

Maker

@vincentm Thanks Vince, excited for you to try it out! We have support for other CSS frameworks but disabled in the product because...everyone stopped using it 🤯 Every single customer (except for one!) uses Tailwind today. But I'd love to understand your use case better – what do you use?

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2yr ago

@irvin_at_subframe Wow! Thats quite the vote for Tailwind. I use Bulma as I find it the middle ground of Bootstrap and Tailwind. But building quick UIs definitely needs something as fast as Tailwind. So no problem on my end. I will adapt.

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2yr ago

Llanai

Now this I like. Congratulations. Finally something that's not just a mockup. Would give you 5 upvotes, if I could!

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2yr ago

Subframe

Maker

@aris_nakos love to hear this! please sign up and personally reach out to me if you have feedback!!

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4.9

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Subframe is praised for its ability to simplify UI design, especially for teams lacking frontend expertise. Makers from

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credits Subframe with significantly reducing development time and costs. Users appreciate its clean interface, effective prototyping capabilities, and well-structured code output. While some note occasional slowness, the tool is seen as a promising step forward in product design.

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