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Dessn
The design canvas that runs your real code.
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The design canvas that runs your real code.
21 followers
When product teams ship fast with AI, it's hard to keep track of what's live and keep it consistent. Dessn runs your codebase on a design canvas, always in sync with prod, so your team and agents work from one shared source of truth. • Audit your product and find inconsistencies • Map user flows with states and personas • Comment, branch and iterate together • Share prototypes for reviews, user tests or sales demos. Connect GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket in one click. Works with every tech stack.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Gab, co-founder and co-CEO of Dessn. Dessn brings your real product onto a design canvas, so your whole team can see what's live, spot what's drifting, and design what comes next.
My whole life, I never had access to the product I was building. As head of product, I used to live in Figma and docs while Nim, my co-founder, lived in the codebase, and our users lived in prod. I spent so much time keeping Figma up to date, only for it to be outdated the next day.
And this problem is only getting worse now that everyone is vibe-coding like there's no tomorrow. Designers and PMs are supposed to keep standards high and the product consistent, and most of the time they don't even know what's live in production.
Two years ago I had to convince people production is the source of truth. Now everyone agrees, but there's still no design tool anchored in it. So Nim and I built one.
How it works 🌼
Dessn sits where design and dev tools meet. You design with your production codebase, on a canvas built for design workflows.
Connect GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket in one click. No local setup headache.
We render your frontend 1-1 and mock your backend, so your whole product lands on the canvas, always in sync with production.
Ask Dessn to audit where your design is drifting.
Make changes with your teammates, and with your agents through Dessn's MCP.
Hand the code diff to your coding agent to ship.
Dessn only reads your repo, so anyone can explore safely. Works with web apps on any tech stack; iOS is in closed beta.
Dessn exists because we want every builder - technical or not - to have access to their source of truth. As a member of the PH community, you get 50 free credits: just enter the code PHBLOOM in Dessn. Try it on your own repo and tell us: what's the first thing you'd fix?
Gab
PS: a huge thank you to our early users who've lived through every version, and to the Creative Machines community in London, SF and NYC. You shaped this. ❤️
The mocked states sound useful for reviewing screens that are hard to reach with live data. Keeping the state used for a review attached to that screen would help the next person reproduce what everyone saw.
@oleksii_sekundant Thanks Oleksii! And yes, that's exactly right. It's about helping you and your team design better, with all the context and complexity of your product. And that's typically so hard to get access to.
A happy path is not enough, and Dessn makes it very easy for you to visualize every single edge case. Not just as a static mockup but as the real interactive flow, with animations and everything.
I have been using Dessn for almost a year now and I can say that this is the best AI design tool out there because the output is very relevant to the design system in the actual codebase. It is also because the process of prototyping is so seamless, intuitive, and creative.
The fact that we can ideate on a canvas makes the exploration process way much faster and way more enjoyable as well.
Kudos to the Dessn team for putting such a cool product together 👏
Congrats on the launch and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the product evolves ❤️❤️❤️
THE launch of the week! 🚀🚀🚀
Thank you@riccardohelfrecht ! Stay tuned we have some fun stuff dropping today!