We built uirip because rebuilding UIs from scratch is one of the biggest time sinks in frontend development.
The Problem: Rebuilding UIs Is the Biggest Time Sink
Consider how many times you’ve needed to:
- Migrate a marketing site from one framework to another
- Recreate a competitor’s layout for a pitch or prototype
- Rebuild an internal tool that only exists as a running application
- Extract design tokens from a live product
Each of these tasks involves the same tedious loop: open DevTools, inspect elements, copy styles, write markup, repeat. It’s mechanical work that doesn’t require creativity — just patience.
Our Approach: DOM-Based Extraction, Not Screenshot Guessing
Instead of building another AI that guesses code from screenshots, we built a pipeline that works with the real DOM. Paste a URL into ui.rip and each stage runs automatically:
- Capture — renders the page in a real browser, collecting the full DOM tree, computed styles, and assets
- Inspect — runs inside the browser to extract what DevTools shows you, but programmatically
- Analyze — identifies component boundaries and relationships from the captured data
- Generate — produces idiomatic Next.js code with proper design tokens
- Verify — closes the loop by visually comparing output against the original
What’s Next
We’re focused on improving component detection accuracy and expanding framework support beyond Next.js. Follow along on GitHub.
Try it: ui.rip — paste any website URL, get a Next.js project with extracted components and design tokens.
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