Hi everyone! Please welcome today's Maker's Corner feature, @kian_karazmoudeh , Founder of @YoinkUI

Feel free to chime in below in the comments with questions on his product or journey or anything else that comes to mind!

1. Tell us about what your product is and what makes it special?

   YoinkUI lets you copy any UI component from any web page and converts it to react + tailwind so you can use it in your own projects. What makes us unique is It doesn't rely on AI to "try" and replicate the UI, it gets the styles directly.

2. What inspired you to build your product? What problem were you trying to solve when you built it? Has that evolved?

   I ve made many AI wrappers in my indie hacking journey, and most of them flopped hard. This month I launched YoinkUI to do just one simple thing. The crazy part is that sooo many people actually loved the idea and resonated with the pain of dealing with AI slop.

   As a solo developer, I found myself spending way too much time focusing on UI, rather than creating features that actually matter. Everytime I tried to ask AI, it came up with generic and boring styles. So I thought to myself, I wish I could just take an existing landing page and modify it to fit my needs. That's how YoinkUI was born.

3. What s a feature or detail you obsessed over that most users will never notice but you're really proud of?

   Most DOMs contain hundreds of invisible elements that don't affect the UI. Coming up with a mechanism that removes all those elements without breaking the layout of the page proved to be more difficult than I anticipated. This is one of those features which you won't notice is there, until it's not. Then you'll definitely notice.

4. What s something that didn t make it into your product for this launch, but you'd like to build?

   I want to add an AI agent to help with updating the copy and styles of the yoinked page/component. So you Yoink a landing page and tell the agent "hey change the copy to match my own product, and make the theme purple" and it will do it.

5. Is this your first product? If not, what else have you built, or are currently working on?

   This is my second product. I realized the need to build YoinkUI while building my first product actually. It was a competitor marketing analysis tool, but I abandoned the project.

6. What s your secret weapon or go-to when you get stuck while building?

   Going for a walk or taking a shower always helps me clear my mind and oftentimes the solution comes to me instantly afterwards.

7. When did you decide to launch on Product Hunt, and how did you prep for it? Do you have any advice for someone thinking about launching?

   I had been thinking of launching for a while. I was very confident in my product so I launched within a few hours notice. It hasn t even been a month yet and I ve gotten 1000 users. My reddit launch post went viral getting 200k views. I placed 4th product of the day on Product Hunt, despite basically having no audience.

   In hindsight I wish I had set up a teaser page for a few days, and promoted my launch on my site and told some friends. That's exactly what I recommend people do.

8. What's the most surprising or unexpected learning and/or feedback you've received?

   Sometimes the things that seem obvious to us, are not to our users. I gained some really valuable insight as to how people use my product by talking to them and the parts of the interface I can make clearer.

9. Share a few Products and/or Makers that inspire you and why.

   @jackfriks and @marclou are huge inspirations. Love their enthusiasm and energy and the way they tackle problems.

Let s settle this once and for all.

Do you spend 3 hours trying to find a clever .com before writing a single line of code? Or do you ship the MVP and slap on whatever domain wasn t taken at the time?

Cast your vote and tell us why.

Let s settle this once and for all.

Do you spend 3 hours trying to find a clever .com before writing a single line of code? Or do you ship the MVP and slap on whatever domain wasn t taken at the time?

Cast your vote and tell us why.

When my kids were really young, I had subscriptions to things for them like Kodable and @Tynker My oldest daughter had fun trying out the free Codemonster page, and then moved on to building her own games. I think she did stuff in Swift playground etc. then I recently shared @Lovable and @bolt.new with her so she's excited about that, but she's also asked for a @Raspberry Pi 5 kit.

For those more tecchy folks in this community, is a Raspberry Pi kit a good investment? (she's about to turn 11). Or should I get her a paid subscription to one of the AI coders instead so she can just vibe code things to her delight? Or are there other resources folks recommend, e.g. coding classes where she'll get more guidance to build something on her own?