Mowgli
Figma for the agent era, with Claude Code and design export
Details
- External ID
- 47197662
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mowgli
- Website domain
- mowgli.ai
- Launched
- Feb. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! We're excited to announce the public beta of Mowgli, a spec-backed, AI-native design canvas for scoping and ideating on products.The productivity gains unleashed by coding agents have made everything else an unexpected bottleneck. In an effort to make the most out of this new paradigm, we ceded a lot of ground in product thinking, thoughtful UX, and design excellence. In other words, the pace of tooling for deciding what to build has not kept up.Mowgli is inspired by, in equal parts, Figma and Claude's plan mode. It evolves a detailed specification and designs for every screen and state of the product on an infinite canvas. Owing to this UI, it can quickly mock up new features and flows, redesign existing ones, and show you variations side by side. LLMs are amazing at helping you explore vast solution spaces, but most current tooling focuses on getting narrowly perfect output based on a well-defined spec. We try to bridge that gap with Mowgli.When you're ready to build, Mowgli offers a .zip export with a SPEC.md and unopinionated design .tsx files for your screens, in a perfect format for coding agents. Or alternatively, full, pixel-perfect export of all screens to Figma.In this early stage, we support two entrypoints: (1) building a product from scratch through a guided experience, or (2) importing an existing product from Figma. We have a powerful, almost pixel-perfect Figma to code + spec pipeline that works on files of any size - from 0 to 300+ frames.We're working hard on other ways to get your existing products into Mowgli (and would appreciate hearing about what you would like!)- Timelapse of making a functional second brain app in Mowgli + Claude Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOoy8WDmMA- Sample project designed and specced entirely by Mowgli (demo, no login needed): https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmluzdfa0000v01p91l5r61e3?the...- Sample Figma import of the whole Posthog product, ready for iteration: https://app.mowgli.ai/projects/cmkl0zqng000101lo8yn2gqvd?dem... (thanks PostHog for being radically open with public Figma files!)
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- design tool for ai agents with code export
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an AI chat canvas UI is buildable, translating freeform prompts and Figma schemas into high-fidelity editable vector canvas elements and pixel-perfect React exports requires complex visual ASTs and canvas rendering engines.
What it would actually take: Building Mowgli requires an infinite canvas engine (Pixi.js/WebGL or custom HTML5 Canvas) coupled with a bidirectional schema translator between Figma's REST/plugin format, custom vector nodes, and semantic React component ASTs. The hard part is generating structured layout trees (flexbox/autolayout) reliably from LLMs without overlapping or broken coordinates. It requires senior frontend engineering with deep expertise in canvas architecture and compiler/AST transforms.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Design agents (integration potential mentioned)
Concerns raised: Browser history pollution from iframe state changes breaks back button navigation, No way to transfer billing between team members after signup, Subscription model inflexible for pay-per-download use case
Feature requests: USDC and alternative payment options beyond Stripe, Teams and organization member management, Pay-per-download or pay-per-credit instead of subscription, Better browser history handling to avoid redundant back states
Competitors
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Attention rank: #65 of 81 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 115 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Anti-Slop Kit · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.