Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev?

I'm thinking of purchasing the Devin subscription, so I can give it screenshots of a web-app, and have it just implement the flows. But ... I don't know if it will be capable of doing so.

Has anyone used Devin for this type of thing?

19 points | by vsroy 4 days ago

10 comments

  • cheema33 4 days ago
    I have not used Devin. But from what I gather from the reviews, Cursor + Composer/Agent will take you a little further than Devin will, for a lot less money. Neither will take you where you expect/want to be. You will still have to do some/a lot of the work yourself.
  • neom 4 days ago
    I think https://www.tempolabs.ai/ (YC S23) might be closer to what you're looking for.
    • solardev 3 days ago
      Is it normal that I can't scroll at all on either their homepage or their product hunt page? Other sites work fine.

      Using Chrome on Android with Adguard.

      • uncomplexity_ 3 days ago
        same here cant scroll
        • SixClub 3 days ago
          Hey fixing this right now!
          • solardev 3 days ago
            Seems to work now! Cool product btw. Good luck on the launch :)
            • SixClub 3 days ago
              Thanks :) Our fancy draggable hero header didn't work on mobile. Fixed now haha
  • drudolph914 1 day ago
    My team tried it, my conclusions were: - it took just as much prompting as a using an LLM to get simple tasks done - took many hours to come to wrong conclusions for simple problems - the examples in their site are definitely cherry picked
  • csomar 3 days ago
    They are all wrappers around GPT-4/Claude. If you don't know what you and the AI is doing, you will not get anywhere. If you know what you are doing, you'll probably just use a regular editor with an AI auto complete.

    https://github.com/stackblitz/bolt.new/issues

  • miguelxpn 4 days ago
    The Primeagen had a stream to test it out where he found a pretty big security problem (that was fixed eventually)

    https://youtu.be/927W6zzvV-c?si=uerRK1czUIGZbJBn

  • runjake 3 days ago
    For others, like me, who don't know what Devin is: Devin is apparently like GitHub Copilot and Cursor IDE.

    https://devin.ai/

  • toddmorey 4 days ago
  • azlan692 4 days ago
    learn programming before using devin it doesn't make websites but just simple instructions, you need to know what you're making.
  • fragmede 4 days ago
    Claude w/ Aider will take you plenty far.
  • ldjkfkdsjnv 4 days ago
    o1 pro is 10x better