Pluck
Dev tools
ui prototyping
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RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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Useful for fast prototyping
From 2 comments
Well, that does sound quite useful.
salomonk_mur on HNWhen you just copy the html, you get a ton of useless repeating data. This tool removed a lot of duplicated things, structures the styling in a better way where we don't spam the…
bring-shrubbery on HN
Objections
Copyright violation concerns
From 1 comment
This sounds like a copyright violation machine. I say that both as someone who writes vooyrighted code and someone responsible for ensuring my company’s code doesn’t violate…
apothegm on HN
Mostly a wrapper any LLM could do; paid pricing questioned
From 2 comments
Right, but that sounds like something any frontier LLM could one-shot. It’s a basic browser extension that wraps elements in the DOM and sends them to an LLM API embedded in a…
thepasch on HNWhat does this do other than copy the selected HTML into a new API prompt that says “describe this”?
thepasch on HN
Requests
Open source the project
From 1 comment
Right, but that sounds like something any frontier LLM could one-shot. It’s a basic browser extension that wraps elements in the DOM and sends them to an LLM API embedded in a…
thepasch on HN
WordPress plugin version
From 1 comment
I'd wish there will be a wordpdress plugin can do simialr thing: one click to export any website's design to own theme.
terrycody on HN
Questions
How it differs from taking a screenshot for an AI tool
From 2 comments
Nice idea. Is 'plucking' something and pasting the prompt into Claude the same as taking a screenshot and uploading it to Claude? I tend to upload screenshots a lot. If…
aj-newcode on HNIt's not, it actually currently doesn't even take screenshots. It actually looks at the html and includes actual structure and values from the webpage. Thanks for asking, maybe I…
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Whether it handles complex Tailwind layouts
From 2 comments
does this handle complex tailwind layouts or just
JaceDev on HNYeah, it should perform well with complex tailwind classes, and if not, there's a "this did not work" feedback button. I'll work on fixing anything that get's lost in translation…
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Alternatives named
Screenshot tools and pasting into AI
From 1 comment
Depending on your OS/screenshot tool, you can bind a key to select an area and copy it to the clipboard, then paste directly into Claude (Ctrl/Command+V). No cluttering.
4m1rk on HN