Onlook
Onlook is a YC Winter 2025 (W25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Onlook
Summary
Onlook builds a visual, open-source code editor that lets designers and developers build, deploy, and iterate on websites and web apps in one place. It merges design tooling, front-end development, and AI into a single interface, replacing the back-and-forth handoff between design software and code editors. The target user is anyone building for the web who currently splits work across separate design and engineering tools.
Go-to-market
Onlook targets designers and developers who work on web products, reaching them through open-source distribution on GitHub and developer community channels such as Hacker News.
From the Y Combinator listing
Cursor for Designers
Onlook is the fastest way for anyone to build, deploy, and iterate on websites and web apps. We built an open-source, visual editor for code that merges design, development, and AI. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek—and has earned over 8,500 GitHub stars. Founded by Daniel Farrell, a designer of 10+ years and former Head of Growth, and Kiet Ho, an ex-Amazon and ex-ServiceNow engineer, Onlook is on a mission to finally solve the gap between design and development.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (1)
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