Show HN: SnipCSS – Extract CSS from any website section, turn into components

by mrieckon 7/25/2023, 4:31 PMwith 0 comments

Hello HN! SnipCSS is a Free Chrome extension (with pro version) that I think many web developers would find useful!

If you ever tried to copy styles from devtools to recreate a design you know it's very tedious to select each element needed and copy styles. SnipCSS automates that better than anyone. Nothing else merges/splices styles into a usable snippet that stays true to the original design.

After getting the extension working well enough to collect snippets, I took it a lot further. I added features to scope the CSS, templatize repeating items, inject lorem ipsum data, and then convert snippets to React/Vue with ChatGPT.

I'm even building a template directory of snippets based on the designs I've collected from random websites.

Making a universal tool to componentize anything on a web is a big project so it took me a couple years to get here.

During that time I've gotten very little feedback. I really suck at talking to users. So please let me know your thoughts and leave a comment!

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