# ion design

> ion design is a San Francisco AI company (YC W24) building tools that let non-engineers ship real UI changes to a live codebase. It started by turning Figma designs into clean React code, grew into a Figma-like visual editor that opens branches and pull requests against your GitHub, and now runs autonomous AI product-design agents that create and test on-brand pages to grow revenue. Founded in 2023 by Samraaj Bath, it targets the gap between people who can ship code and the PMs, designers, and marketers who cannot.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Samraaj Bath (CEO & Founder), Samuel Barnholdt (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 3-5
- **Products:** ion visual editor, Figma to React code, ion design system, Ruby - autonomous AI product designer, ion VS Code extension
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch., Shipped a Figma-to-React product plus a VS Code extension and a 5,000+ component design system., Launched multiple times on YC and Product Hunt as the product evolved.

## Products & services

- **ion visual editor** — A Figma-like visual editor that connects to your GitHub, understands your design system, tokens, and components, and lets non-engineers edit UI and ship changes as automatically generated branches and pull requests reviewed through your normal process.
- **Figma to React code** — Converts Figma designs into clean, production-ready React code that fits an existing codebase, with automated PR generation. Marketed as speeding teams up by roughly 40%.
- **ion design system** — A customizable design system and component library (5,000+ Figma components) tightly coupled between Figma and React, syncable with a codebase for consistent, out-of-the-box code generation.
- **Ruby - autonomous AI product designer** — An AI agent that works in Slack: clarifies requirements, researches, designs multiple options, iterates, and ships pull requests - designing and launching on-brand pages to grow revenue.
- **ion VS Code extension** — A Visual Studio Marketplace extension that generates React components from Figma directly inside VS Code.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
- Shipped a Figma-to-React product plus a VS Code extension and a 5,000+ component design system.
- Launched multiple times on YC and Product Hunt as the product evolved.
- Backed by Founders, Inc. as an autonomous AI product designer.

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Launched on Y Combinator (W24) - Figma designs to clean React code.
- **2024** — Released ion as a visual editor over a live codebase for non-technical teams, with GitHub PR automation.
- **2025** — Introduced Ruby, an autonomous AI product designer working in Slack, and moved toward autonomous page-generation for ecommerce growth.

## Links

- Website: https://ion.design
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ion-dot-design
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/iondotdesign
- GitHub: https://github.com/ion-design

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