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Show HN: Open-source sandbox for your product team

15 points by spacspade ago | 14 comments
Kshitij and Rahul here. We're building Playground, an open-source sandbox that lets your non-technical teams prototype directly on production codebases, without bugging you (developers) to spin up and maintain another repo.

The repo is here: https://github.com/B1u3B01t/design-playground.

We've been working together for six years. Last year we built an AI design agent because we thought designers were the biggest bottleneck. But we were wrong.

After talking to teams, we realised designers, PMs, founders and even sales people all wanted to quickly change and explore flows for their users, that looked and behaved like the real app.

But devs don't trust non-technical teams to work on production and not fuck up the code. Agree. So the other way is setting up another mock repo.

And that defeats the point. It adds maintenance cost of keeping both in sync. This is what happened when both of us were working together too. So we built an open-source Playground.

It has all the features out of the box: super intuitive, good ux, links to claude/codex, latest features, easy additions of skills, collaborative and best of all, safe guardrails so if you want, you can get the code in one click (unlike figma or other closed source shit).

I work on the Playground. Rahul on Conductor. We're super claude pilled and believe in this duo being the new product team size, something coinbase and square are already doing with "pods".

Right now it supports Nextjs projects. We will definitely add more frameworks and improve the developer experience. We'd especially love feedback from teams already maintaining internal sandboxes.

Go let your non-tech team play.

rohanrajpal |next [-]

alright we've been facing this issue for a while now, gonna see if this fits, also maybe have a gif on the readme on how it works? thats gonna give more clarity since you're targetting non technical folks who casually check out github repos for solutions like these

Harshit_UX10 |next |previous [-]

The due is so amazing....Been using it from last few days and it's works so crazy when it comes to being connected with your code and so consistent with design system

Something I felt other Vibe design tools missed

henryagi |next |previous [-]

This looks amazing. Keeping a separate mock repo in sync with production is always a nightmare. Can't wait to try this with our product team!

keen-owl-4072 |next |previous [-]

This is super cool!

yashwin31 |next |previous [-]

This would help me a lot with designers getting off my back to fix every small thing

raghavalanche |next |previous [-]

this is so cool! I can't wait to give this to our products team! not only will it let them quickly iterate on their ideas, but it would probably also help them appreciate how complicated some of their requests can be!! :P

daksh137 |next |previous [-]

Being a designer that would help a lot. To design without being a bother to the dev

AruneshSingh |next |previous [-]

can i have an app version of it?

oliviervroom |next |previous [-]

interesting, will check it out!

adix09 |next |previous [-]

let’s goo! This is an innovative solution for product teams, excited to try it out

sting123 |next |previous [-]

have to give this a go!

rahul17901 |next |previous [-]

Oh that’s interesting

maxgia |next |previous [-]

this is pretty sick actually, where can i test

interfasai |previous [-]

dude, i've been waiting for something like this, finallyyyyy