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I Take AI Slop and Turn It Into Product
At SanganakHQ, I've done this at least half a dozen times now. Same story every time.
Founder builds with Claude, Codex, Bolt, Replit, Lovable, v0. And it works. Real users, real payments, real data.
But under the hood? 50K, 100K+ lines of AI-generated code glued together. Functions duplicated dozens of times. Auth mixed into UI. Hardcoded secrets. No tests. Fix one bug, three more appear.
It works the way a house of cards works.
Then they message me: "We're scaling. Can you make this production-ready?"
So I audit every line. Separate what's solid (usually 20%) from what needs to be rearchitected. Build a day-by-day migration plan with exact pricing. Move it to a real stack: Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, proper auth, proper RLS, proper CI/CD.
The irony: the AI features are usually the cleanest part. The mess is everything around it. Business logic, payment flows, membership tiers. The stuff AI generated fast but never thought through.
Smart founders, solid ideas, AI got them to a working product. But "working" and "production-grade" are two very different things.
If your app runs on AI-generated code and you're about to scale, get it audited before you find out the hard way.
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Every AI engineer knows the pain. You spend days perfecting your model, your logic, your integrations , then your app goes live and looks like every other generic AI tool out there. The design is an afterthought. Not because you don't care ,but because there's no bridge between great design inspiration and the code your IDE understands.
That's the problem I built YeeraAI to solve.
What YeeraAI does?
Drop in any website URL, screenshot or Figma file — and YeeraAI instantly generates:
+ A structured design.md file — capturing colors, typography, spacing and components
+ A tailored prompt for AI coding tools like Cursor — so you can build interfaces that look intentional, and not templated
How I built it — the full workflow:
Figma Design Agent — Designed the entire UI in one click. Described what I needed, the agent built it. No manual frames, no wrestling with auto-layout. Just instant, production-ready UI.
Figma Make — Took that design and turned it into a real working React application. Vite, Tailwind, components — all generated. I went from design to live codebase without writing a single line of boilerplate.
Figma Weave — Used to create the video elements for this submission. Bringing the story of YeeraAI to life visually, showing the workflow from idea to deployed product.
Supabase — The entire backbone of YeeraAI. Handles user authentication, stores user data, and hosts the Edge Functions that power the AI analysis — securely connecting to Gemini and Context.dev without ever exposing sensitive keys to the frontend.
🔗 Try YeeraAI: yeeraai.figma.site
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