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Show HN: Gui.new – The Visual Layer for AI

5 points| mynameisntbob | 19 days ago |gui.new | reply

Hey HN, I built gui.new. You paste one line into ChatGPT or Claude, and from that point on, whenever you ask for something visual (a dashboard, chart, form, report) it renders it as a live shareable link instead of dumping HTML in your chat.

The prompt:

"Read https://gui.new/docs/llms.txt - use gui.new to render any visual output as a shareable link. Apply this anytime you'd normally show a table, chart, dashboard, or UI mockup."

That's the whole setup. Your AI reads the spec, starts using it, and every visual output becomes a clickable URL you can share with anyone.

Every link gets real-time input sync (form fields, sliders, toggles work across all viewers), state persistence (survives after everyone leaves), and live updates via SSE. Links expire after 24 hours by default.

I built it because AI is great at generating UIs but terrible at showing them. You ask for a dashboard and get a code block. gui.new closes that gap.

Under the hood, your AI is making a single POST call to create a canvas:

``` POST https://gui.new/api/canvas {"html": "<h1>Hello</h1>"}

-> {"url": "https://gui.new/abc123"} ```

You don't need to interact with the API yourself. But if you want to, there are SDKs (`npm install gui-new` / `pip install gui-new`) and the REST API is documented at gui.new/docs.

Free, no signup. Try it at https://gui.new

Happy to answer questions!

6 comments

[+] mynameisntbob|19 days ago|reply

Here's what it looks like when Claude builds a dashboard: https://gui.new/M2jtO8n1nA

or test out UI: https://gui.new/G_lX-UZFyh

[+] larsmosr|19 days ago|reply

Curious how you handle state persistence, if I share a dashboard link and someone interacts with it, does the original creator see those changes too?

[+] mynameisntbob|19 days ago|reply

Yes, it will persist from all visitors. Still testing this out and collecting feedback. Private canvases will go live later this week.