Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

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_345•18 minutes ago

What inspired you to make this?

benswerd•13 minutes ago

gonna use it on my websites homepage

techpression•13 minutes ago

I fully expected this to be complements for the output you get from those tools for some reason, that AI generated look. No idea why anyone would want that though.

sim04ful•about 1 hour ago

I love this!

dprkh•about 2 hours ago

Why did you choose to use shadcn registry?

benswerd•about 2 hours ago

Generally, when using these components I ended up wanting to customize a lot. I switched around the options, coloring, the words in the loading, I mix and matched the components from different CLIs, etc.

I think these are more useful as baselines than as final destinations, and I expect production users to customize them far more than options in components.

I also separately don't really believe in traditional components anymore, code is cheap. The value in these components is that I took the time to pixel match a bunch of the CLIs, not the specific interface used to integrate them.

tipiirai•about 1 hour ago

What are traditional components? How are untraditional better?

benswerd•about 1 hour ago

Think MUI, heroUI, traditional components have you install their package, import the component and configure it through arguments.

ShadCN components have you copy the component code into your codebase, you own it. They come with the ability to configure arguments, but also because the code is yours its expected that you change the internal logic/styling/structure of the component.

I believe in the era of AI code the ladder just makes more sense.

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

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