3 Weeks In
Three weeks in and I'm genuinely blown away, I finally have the design tool I always wanted. I've been using Scamp to design Scamp itself, which feels like the right kind of dogfooding. It's been the perfect companion for working alongside coding agents and staying close to my actual development files. I've shared early builds with a few designers and I'm waiting to hear back. It's available to download now, but I'm holding off on pushing the marketing hard until a few more features land.
It is so much more efficient when you can "dogfood" your own product to build itself because you feel every minor friction point as a user and a developer at the same time. Most designers don't realize that the "handover" process is usually where the best ideas die, simply because traditional design tools don't actually understand how CSS behaves in a real browser environment.
Since you are working directly in CSS alongside coding agents, does Scamp allow you to import your existing stylesheets so you can visually tweak classes that are already live in your codebase?
Hey thanks for the comment! Unfortunately right now the import stage is a little rough, I'm working on it. The best way to do this is to give a page+ the stylesheet to Claude code running in your project folder and ask it to create a scamp page that matches your design. I'm trying to build scamp in a way that isnt very opinionated but we do have a few rules, each element needs its own class and data attribute, and they have to include a unique identifier.
Dogfooding a design tool using AI agents is a masterclass in modern product development because it exposes layout friction that static tools simply never see.
The strategy of using Claude to bridge the gap between live stylesheets and Scamp is a smart workaround since it maintains your code's integrity while you solve the data attribute mapping.
By the way the way I work with digital PR and media placement helps technical founders turn these developer focused tools into industry standards by securing features on high authority platforms like Yahoo Finance or MSN.
Focusing on a non-opinionated structure is the right move because developers value flexibility over rigid frameworks every time.