Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases
Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise ( https://stagewise.io ), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases. You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `npx stagewise` from the project root. The agent lets you then click on HTML Elements in your app, enter prompts like 'increase the height here' and will implement the changes in your source code. Before stagewise, we were building a vertical SaaS for logistics from scratch and loved using prototyping tools like v0 or lovable to get to the first version. But when switching from v0/ lovable to Cursor for local development, we felt like the frontend magic was gone. So, we decided to build stagewise to bring that same magic to local development. The first version of stagewise just forwarded a prompt wi
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Hey HN, we're Julian and Glenn, and we're building stagewise ( https://stagewise.io ), a frontend coding agent that lives inside your browser on localhost and operates on local codebases. You can spawn the agent into locally running web apps in dev mode with `
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- juliangoetze
- Ended
- 2025
- Source
- hackernews