The main trick that helps is to install the frontend-design plugin (it's in the official plugins list now) and ask Claude to generate multiple (~5) designs.
Find what you like, and then ask it to redesign another set based on your preferences... or just start iterating on one if you see something that really appeals to you. Some details about my setup and prompting:
- I use Tailwind
- I ask it to only use standard Tailwind v4 colors
- It should create a totally new page (no shared layouts) so it can load whatever font combinations it wants
My company makes a few products - one of them is just forms, lists, and links. When the codebase was really small we tried using htmx, then alpine ajax, then datastar. We stuck with datastar and I really enjoy it for projects that don't have a highly complex client state. Overall it's a really simple build and deploy process. I find it easier to secure and to reason about. Additional bonus: I'm able to lint the whole thing with biome since it's just typescript and jsx templates.
Edthena makes products that improve teacher performance at scale. We have a small team, and have been operating for 10 years. You'll get the benefits (healthcare, 401k, vacation) of an established company with the freedom and independence of a small company.
* The technical interview is read-only (no whiteboards, trick problems, or take-home tests)
* You'll be working directly with the CTO (https://stackoverflow.com/users/635981/)
* Automated testing is easy to run, thorough, and maintained
* Code quality and getting the details right are of critical importance to us
Building this product means helping teachers everywhere. If you want to make a difference in education, please email me: dave@edthena.com
Edthena helps teachers get better at teaching. We bring observation and feedback online using recorded videos and specialized collaboration tools. We are currently working with thousands of teachers across the country. Our ultimate vision is a marketplace to enable coaching for teachers anytime, anywhere.
We've got a product that top-name customers are using, paying for, and renewing because what we built actually solves their problem.
If you're interested, email dave@edthena.com or apply here:
Groovy? There's a transpiler called "Grooscript" that generates Javascript from Groovy syntax, if you don't like Coffeescript's indentation take on javascript.
https://youtu.be/f2FnYRP5kC4?si=MzMypopj3YahN_Cb
The main trick that helps is to install the frontend-design plugin (it's in the official plugins list now) and ask Claude to generate multiple (~5) designs.
Find what you like, and then ask it to redesign another set based on your preferences... or just start iterating on one if you see something that really appeals to you. Some details about my setup and prompting: