As a web designer, I get better by paying attention to great websites - the layouts, the type, the little details that make me think "I want to be that good."
Collecting them is how I build my taste. But there's a catch nobody talks about: websites don't last. The site that inspires you today can be a 404 tomorrow.
Redesigns, dead domains, projects quietly taken offline - and just like that, the design is gone. You didn't just lose a bookmark. You lost the reference, and a little piece of what was shaping your work.
So I built SiteSnap - a tool to collect website designs as inspiration, save them for whenever I need them, and preserve them before they disappear.
- A Chrome extension captures any site in one click (full-page, plus a Behance capture mode).
- A web gallery keeps every site searchable and organized - the one I saved in March is still there in October.
- A Figma plugin drops those references right onto my canvas, where I design.
It's the whole loop: see great work, keep it, and actually use it - long after the original site is gone.
I started building SiteSnap a few months ago, as a tool I genuinely needed for my own work. For the Config Makeathon, I built its landing page by driving Figma through MCP with Claude, so the build matched the design file exactly. Built with Figma and Figma MCP.
Try it here:
https://sitesnap.nii.design/
Community file:
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1605968559008417745
Social post:
https://x.com/eugeneniidesign/status/2066510342939722179?s=20