Vecti
Creative
ui design tool
SHOW HN2026
386points
183comments
#95of 4,366 in 2026
Top 3%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
26 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 22 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Idea: 8 for, 8 againstDesign: 5 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Polished, beautiful design
From 3 comments
Congratulations on shipping a beautiful product
replwoacause on HNIt's beautiful. Great job. Congrats on having the persistence to see this through.
popalchemist on HNBeautiful design! (makes sense for someone that does UI design). Congrats, I'll check it out.
willparks on HN
Respect for solo persistence
From 2 comments
Congrats on launching. I spent a decade trying to build a design tool. I think I built almost 40 prototypes, to various degrees of completion. Never got to a point where I felt…
danielvaughn on HNIt's beautiful. Great job. Congrats on having the persistence to see this through.
popalchemist on HN
Privacy-friendly analytics approach
From 1 comment
I use some basic analytics (page views, referrers) but zero tracking inside the app itself. No session recordings, no behavior analytics, no third-party scripts beyond the…
rkagerer on HN
Objections
Too similar to Figma, possible lawsuit risk
From 3 comments
Since this is a commercial product, I'm naturally inclined to compare it to other competing commercial products. Why would I want to use this over figma? The sidepanels and…
TonyStr on HNEx-Figma. I'd be worried about a lawsuit here, primarily due to the overall app architecture and property panel on the right. While there are differences between your…
jjcm on HNA Figma competitor is a really good thing - many people are waiting to jump ship for a decent competitor. However, for the sake of longevity & lawsuits, maybe tweak the UI a…
joduplessis on HN
Single maintainer may limit features and support
From 1 comment
Since this is a commercial product, I'm naturally inclined to compare it to other competing commercial products. Why would I want to use this over figma? The sidepanels and…
TonyStr on HN
Missing components, auto layout, prototyping
From 2 comments
Since this is a commercial product, I'm naturally inclined to compare it to other competing commercial products. Why would I want to use this over figma? The sidepanels and…
TonyStr on HNGreat work. As a European designer, really happy to see competition. Figma is slowly jacking up prices and companies are starting to lean on seats. Figma has pretty much reached…
karhuton on HN
Subscription pricing
From 2 comments
It looks really nice, but it is subscription based, so ... no thanks. I refuse to give in to this horrible cycle started by Adobe, lo so many years ago.
NoSalt on HNGreat work. As a European designer, really happy to see competition. Figma is slowly jacking up prices and companies are starting to lean on seats. Figma has pretty much reached…
karhuton on HN
Slow performance and heavy home page
From 2 comments
Congrats! I tried it and some feedback: 1. Every action seems slower than Figma and Sketch-my main tool 2. Some short cuts didn't seem to to work, like how I can't copy and paste…
phmagic on HNI have one observation that doesn’t seem to be reported on this thread. The home page is very heavy, loading several MBs of images. It took half a minute to load completely for…
AnonHP on HN
Requests
Auto layout and components
From 2 comments
Great work. As a European designer, really happy to see competition. Figma is slowly jacking up prices and companies are starting to lean on seats. Figma has pretty much reached…
karhuton on HNSince this is a commercial product, I'm naturally inclined to compare it to other competing commercial products. Why would I want to use this over figma? The sidepanels and…
TonyStr on HN
Self-hosted or open-source version
From 2 comments
Any chance this will be open-sourced or have a self-hosted version available? I'm interested in modding tools in this space in pursuit of finding weird new ways to create and…
cobertos on HNComparing this to penpot, which is free as long as you self-host. Not sure why I would pick this over a self-hostable battle-tested option.
ramon156 on HN
MCP server
From 1 comment
Congrats on launching, looks cool for sure, I'll certainly check it out! Have you considered adding an MCP server? I've had good results recently using the Figma one just
jmkni on HN
Desktop app with files rather than browser
From 1 comment
Nice. My gripe with designer apps is that they are online first. I'd want to save designs to files, close to other files of the project. I'd want to open each file in their own…
aerzen on HN
Questions
Why WebAssembly instead of plain JS for the renderer
From 1 comment
Why Webassembly for the renderer? Why not just JS? Nowadays performance is similar if not better than native
grougnax on HN
What the product actually makes (image editor, React builder, or HTML/CSS)
From 1 comment
Maybe its obvious but I can't tell it this is an image editor, a React builder, an HTML/CSS designer, ...? What does it make?
contrast on HN
How features were chosen and validated
From 1 comment
> I kept finding myself using a small amount of the features while the rest just mostly got in the way. So a few years ago I set out to build a design tool just like I wanted. So…
crazygringo on HN
Alternatives named
Figma
From 2 comments
Since this is a commercial product, I'm naturally inclined to compare it to other competing commercial products. Why would I want to use this over figma? The sidepanels and…
TonyStr on HNEx-Figma. I'd be worried about a lawsuit here, primarily due to the overall app architecture and property panel on the right. While there are differences between your…
jjcm on HN
Penpot
From 2 comments
How does it compare to https://github.com/penpot/penpot?
tarcon on HNComparing this to penpot, which is free as long as you self-host. Not sure why I would pick this over a self-hostable battle-tested option.
ramon156 on HN
Sketch
From 1 comment
Congrats! I tried it and some feedback: 1. Every action seems slower than Figma and Sketch-my main tool 2. Some short cuts didn't seem to to work, like how I can't copy and paste…
phmagic on HN
Bootstrap Studio
From 1 comment
Reminds me of https://bootstrapstudio.io/
ranger_danger on HN