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Studio 03 · Tom Huang, Open Design: "Stars are not revenue wearing a trench coat"
Eleven days after Anthropic shipped Claude Design, a Shanghai team shipped the open-source alternative. It has since crossed a million installs on 77,000 stars, and the first build cost about $200. Tom Huang on the file-first method that let agents write all the code, why giving the product away was the plan, and the part no agent can do for you.
Built by Tom Huang · Open Design
The Proof · AI tool
Web Anatomy: the annotations are worth your time, the statistics are not
A design library of scored, annotated landing-page sections from real companies, plus a free MIT-licensed skill pack for your coding agent. We ran its own audit rubric three times on the same page to test its reproducibility claim, ran the hosted analyzer on our own homepage and timed it, and checked its published analyses against the live sites they describe. The section-level work is better than almost any free CRO content. The scores and leaderboards deserve a more careful read.
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A Studio build we checked: it is live and its receipts hold up. Hands-on when we can run it ourselves, independently confirmed when it is a B2B build we cannot.
A Proof verdict on a tool we used ourselves: signed up, ran real tasks, and logged what it costs.
The Primer · Tools & Stacks
Hooks, skills, subagents, plugins, CLAUDE.md: what each is for
Five ways to extend Claude Code, and the confusion is real: hooks or skills, skills or subagents, CLAUDE.md or a skill. They differ on one axis that decides everything else, when each one enters the context window. Anthropic just published that axis and rebuilt around it. Here is the tested taxonomy, with the token cost of each measured on a clean session.
The Study · Economics
What it costs to run a vibe-coded app
The catalog prices building, pricing, and selling, and never once prices running. The managed default keeps a small app at $0 while it is a hobby, then sets a $45 floor the moment money changes hands. A plain server runs the same app for roughly six euros at every stage. Each side wins a stage, and the number that flips the math at scale is the one nobody quotes: the marginal transfer rate.
The Signal · Issue 5
A worm is after your AI keys. The install is the door.
A self-spreading npm worm tore through more than 400 packages this month, and the tell is what it reached for: past your cloud and Git tokens, straight to the API keys in Claude, Cursor, and Codex. Nothing was breached. You ran an install, the install ran its code, and that was always the deal.
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