Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

Hi HN! We're Jared and Gabe (YC W18), the founders of Pagedraw ( https://pagedraw.io ). Pagedraw is a UI builder that turns mockups into React code. Pagedraw lets you annotate mockups with extra information (like how to connect to the backend, resize for different screens, etc.) to get full, presentational, React Components. They’re React Components just like any others, so they can be interleaved freely with handwritten ones. They don’t require any new dependencies and work well with any existing JSX build system. You can import the mockups from Sketch or Figma, or draw them from scratch in Pagedraw. Working as full stack devs, we constantly had to do this translation by hand. It was our least favorite part of our jobs, since the creative work had already been done by the mockup designer. It's so repetitive and mechanical that we decided to stop hand-coding divs and css and write a program to do it instead. There have been many attempts to automate this stuff in th