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Design Rails
Get an agent-ready brand in minutes
109 followers
Get an agent-ready brand in minutes
109 followers
Chat with an AI creative director. Get a complete brand identity in minutes—logo, colors, typography, voice & tone, UI styles—all packaged as agent-ready files. No more generic UI. Drop the files into your project, and tools like Claude and Lovable generate on-brand UI from day one.
PRDKit
Big thanks for the launch lift, YC & @garrytan!
Hey Product Hunt 👋,
Here's the backstory - last year, we needed a new brand for a product we had built quickly and were going to ship within days. We couldn't justify paying thousands of $'s on a brand before PMF, nor could we afford waiting weeks for the full design cycle.
Plus, we wanted more than a visual reference in Figma, or a homepage template. We needed a design system that we could handoff to agents to carry the brand consistently across app workflows, and marketing channels. It needed to include UI styles, voice & tone guidelines, a logo and logo derivatives that'll work well for a favicon, and light and dark themes.
We talked with other builders who were in the same boat and realized this was a common problem. So, we built Design Rails.
Looking forward to hearing how it works for you, and happy to answer any questions!
@garrytan @ehudhal When I'm in a tight MVP sprint, the agent starts freelancing, new spacing, new radii, slightly different blues. Design Rails shipping a design-context folder with agent-instructions.md and W3C design-tokens.json is the kind of handoff that actually works. Do you also generate CSS variables or a Tailwind theme from the tokens so the app and landing page don't drift apart? That last mile is where brand kits usually fall apart.
PRDKit
@piroune_balachandran Design Rails generates markdown files with usage instructions and examples including CSS snippets, and a structured design tokens json file. The design tokens format was designed to be stack agnostic, and you can instruct your coding agent to use it to create a tailwind (or other frameworks) files from it.
Check out Style Dictionary for a non-AI library to convert design tokens to different formats: https://styledictionary.com/examples/basic/
PRDKit
@t1m0slav Thanks for giving it a try, and for the feedback!
The logos are a fun problem :) If you gave a thumbs down to those that weren't helpful that'll help us look into the specifics and tune it up further. Or, if you're open to sending over the thread ID (URL) over to hello@designrails.com that would be much appreciated.
In many of the runs, we've been blown away by the creativity the AI achieves (looking at you, nano banana) in capturing concepts, and reflecting the desired style. It fails at times, and there's more work to do! What often works well is going beyond the single-shot, asking for (free) variations and steering it with revision guidance to hone-in on the concept you have in mind.
Ammersive
Why are you lying about being backed by YC?
PRDKit
Hi @sam_alexander1 Design Rails is the name of the product. Company is Chordio. https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chordio
Ammersive
@ehudhal bit misleading tbh
I liked onboarding and user flow, but logos are very generic. Hope improve it soon
PRDKit
@vasilbo thanks for checking it out and for the feedback. 🙌
Product Hunt
PRDKit
@curiouskitty- that's pretty much the process. You provide the partial brand (e.g. hex values, typography, visual concepts) as an input to give an initial direction, and you get a more complete brand system. If we define "stable system" as "the UI I'm building doesn't look generic and the AI consistently follows the brand guidelines" - once you're happy with the brand and add the exported package as design context, the LLM picks it up immediately and does a really good job following it.
ResumeUp.AI
Congrats on the launch, Team! 🚀
Love the idea - getting a full, agent-ready brand in minutes is super practical.
PRDKit
@rohithreddy Thanks, Rohith!