Intro
OrangePi is an AI-powered prototyping platform built for fast-moving product teams. PMs need to create prototypes quickly, but existing tools that attempt to replicate your product require building new Figma screens from scratch, which defeats the purpose of rapid prototyping. In addition, training these tools to recognize your screens and design philosophy can take 2-3 hours and only works for one person at a time. OrangePi solves this by reading your company’s legacy Figma files, design specs, and design philosophy. When you need a new prototype, it can instantly generate high-fidelity screens and demos that align perfectly with your existing product. Simply prompt the system with your product spec, and OrangePi produces accurate, demo-ready prototypes that maintain your brand and design consistency.
About the project
Prototyping has become a central part of a product manager’s workflow. Modern PM programs and companies expect PMs to rapidly build and iterate on prototypes to validate ideas, align stakeholders, and communicate product vision. Yet, creating high-fidelity prototypes is often slow, tedious, and inconsistent. Current tools either require starting from scratch or extensive setup, and even when you prototype quickly, the result often doesn’t fully replicate the existing designs and is not client-facing, creating confusion and extra work to explain differences. OrangePi was created to bridge this gap. The platform lets PMs leverage their existing design assets, past Figma files, and company design philosophy to generate new, high-quality prototypes instantly. This ensures prototypes look and behave like the real product while still allowing for rapid iteration. By removing the friction of manual setup and imperfect replication, OrangePi enables PMs and teams to prototype faster, iterate smarter, and deliver demos that are both accurate and client-ready.
Inspiration
Prototyping has become a core responsibility for product managers, but current workflows are often slow, inconsistent, and cumbersome. PMs frequently struggle to create demos that faithfully reflect a company’s design standards, and these demos are typically not client-facing, limiting their use to internal teams and requiring extra explanations to stakeholders. Daniel’s experience as a PM intern highlighted these challenges firsthand. When presenting demos, he was often asked why his prototypes didn’t fully match the company’s designs, requiring him to explain that these were internal working prototypes rather than finished products. During hackathons, creating a single flow that looked like the intended product required 2–3 hours to export individual Figma screens and send them through Builder.io, just to get a starting point. Only after this setup was it possible to start iterating on new screens without needing to rebuild them in Figma. Seeing these struggles made it clear that other PMs and teams must be facing the same issues. OrangePi was created to solve this problem by leveraging existing design assets, legacy Figma files, and company design principles to generate high-fidelity prototypes instantly. This allows teams to iterate faster, test ideas confidently, and maintain consistency with their product’s design, while keeping prototypes suitable for internal team use without the overhead of building client-ready designs.
What it does
- Upload your figma files and generate a database
- Prompt a prototyping tool (lovable, etc)
- Generate your working prototype based on your previous designs!
Challenges
Figma API Limitations The Figma API wasn’t fully compatible with the workflow we needed, which made it difficult to pull design assets directly for prototyping. To create a working demo within a tight timeframe, we had to design a workaround that could reliably extract the necessary screens and components. Rate Limits and Data Parsing Parsing exported Figma screens to feed into a database repeatedly ran into daily rate limits, which slowed down the process of building prototype flows. Managing these limits required careful orchestration of requests, batching, and optimization to ensure all design assets could be processed efficiently.
What’s next
OrangePi is continuing to expand its capabilities to make prototyping even faster and more seamless: Integration with Lovable and Other Prototyping Tools – Allowing PMs and designers to directly generate new screens and flows using AI-powered prompts.
Importing an Entire Figma Repository – Enabling teams to leverage all past design assets at once, rather than importing individual screens, for faster prototype generation.
Connecting with GitHub – Streamlining the workflow between design and development by linking prototypes directly to code repositories for smoother iteration and handoff.
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