Designbase (YC W23) — Design and build great interfaces
Designbase is the interface design tool that gives early teams design and development superpowers. Create stunning interfaces, immediately available as code, regardless of resources.
Designbase is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Design and build great interfaces. The founders listed are Alexandru Antihi (Founder), Ryan Xie (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 7, 2023).
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Designbase is the interface design tool that gives early teams design and development superpowers. Create stunning interfaces, immediately available as code, regardless of resources.
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Designbase – Stop Explaining Your Product To Your Tools
Designbase is a visual design environment built on top of your real product. Capture patterns, rules, and decisions once, then give every designer, engineer, and AI agent the same product context.
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Alexandru Antihi
Founder
I spent the last 17+ years designing and building successful products and design systems for Palantir, Two Sigma, Mosaic.tech, Checkout.com, Thomson Reuters, Bitdefender and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Ryan Xie
Founder
Ryan is a co-founder at Blocksfabrik. At Facebook, he led a team driving strategic growth, and at Palantir he led several teams including core search, pharma, and user research.
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