AIDesigner
AIDesigner is an AI design generator, a web app that draws a finished visual design from a sentence of text. You describe a landing page, a mobile app screen, a logo or a brand kit, and it returns a design that you can edit on a canvas, export, or publish as a website on your own domain. It is aimed at people who practise vibe coding, which means building software by describing it to an AI coding assistant instead of writing the code. The home page promises "Designs that don't look AI-generated": screens without the uniform look of interfaces that AI tools write. It also offers an MCP server. MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets an AI assistant call outside tools, so Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot or Windsurf can ask AIDesigner for a design from inside a developer's project.
The founder appears as Wiz on his profile at TrustMRR, a site that reads revenue directly from a company's payment account, and in the site's own page data (X account @bowlcutWiz). The author box of the company blog names him as Tyler Yin, "the founder of AIDesigner". The business runs through Friend Technologies, LLC, a US company named in the terms of service. He gave 14 November 2025 as the founding date. Stripe, the payment processor, shows the first sales in December 2025, US$638, and between US$1,155 and US$3,019 a month until March 2026. On 29 March 2026 the npm package that installs the MCP server was first published; npm is the public registry for JavaScript code, and its record shows the date. April revenue reached US$14,082, 12.2 times March. On 16 October 2026 the MRR (monthly recurring revenue: what the active subscriptions bring in each month) was US$8,563 from 293 active subscriptions. That is a run rate, the monthly figure times 12, of about US$102,756 a year.
The revenue figures are grade A. TrustMRR reads them from the company's Stripe account through an API key, a password that lets one program read another program's data, and the same account code appears in the Stripe identifiers of the prices on AIDesigner's pricing page. The trend is down: September 2026 revenue, US$8,841, was 37.2% below April, and MRR fell 5.3% in the 30 days to 16 October. The founding date, the team of one, the user counts and the account of how customers came are statements by the founder or the company, or come from a compiled page that is not an interview; they are grade C. The page also shows five earlier companies that promised to automate web design or to turn designs into code.
The numbers, graded
Each row shows the evidence grade and the source numbers from the list at the end of this page. The grades are explained in How Aiolum verifies.
| Fact | Value | Grade | How we know | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly recurring revenue (MRR), 16 October 2026 | US$8,563 | A | TrustMRR reads the company's Stripe account through an API key; last synced 16 October 2026 at 20:46 UTC. TrustMRR gives it as a current snapshot. | [1] |
| Run rate from that MRR | about US$102,756 a year | calc | Calculated: US$8,563 times 12. This is the headline figure of the page. | [1] |
| Active subscriptions, 16 October 2026 | 293 | A | Stripe data through TrustMRR. | [1] |
| Average MRR per active subscription | about US$29.23 a month | calc | Calculated: US$8,563 divided by 293. Close to the US$25 price of the smallest paid tier. | [1, 2] |
| Revenue in the 30 days to 16 October 2026 | US$10,378 | A | TrustMRR shows +17.0% against the 30 days before. One day, 7 October 2026, brought US$2,405, about 8.7 times the average of the other 29 days (US$275), and that day is larger than the whole gain. | [1] |
| Revenue all time, December 2025 to 16 October 2026 | US$79,038 | A | Equal to the last 12 months: the Stripe account shows no sales before December 2025. | [1] |
| Best month | April 2026, US$14,082 | A | 12.2 times March 2026 (US$1,155). December 2025 to March 2026: US$638, US$3,019, US$1,715 and US$1,155. | [1] |
| Revenue in September 2026 | US$8,841 | A | May to August 2026: US$10,639, US$11,417, US$10,762 and US$9,383. October to the 16th: US$7,390. | [1] |
| Fall from April to September 2026 | 37.2% | calc | Calculated: US$14,082 minus US$8,841, divided by US$14,082. From the best month after April (June, US$11,417) the fall is 22.6%. | [1] |
| MRR change in the last 30 days | minus 5.3% | A | TrustMRR snapshot, 16 October 2026. | [1] |
| Stripe account compared with the product | the same account code | calc | Calculated: the Stripe icon link on the TrustMRR profile decodes to the account acct_1STWoUIJSxbVg0Q6, and every Stripe price ID in AIDesigner's pricing script contains its last ten characters, IJSxbVg0Q6. The profile lists only aidesigner.ai as the website. | [1, 2] |
| Users | 18,000+ | C | Home page, 16 October 2026, which also claims 90,000+ designs created. The founder's TrustMRR profile estimates 15,000 users. Free users are counted: the 293 subscriptions are 1.6% of 18,000. | [3, 1] |
| Compiled MRR claim, 1 May 2026 | US$9,500, up from under US$1,000 in 30 days | C | Not verified. From a page that says it is compiled from public sources and written as an interview; it attributes the figure to an announcement by the founder. It agrees in size with the Stripe revenue of April 2026. | [14, 1] |
| First version of the MCP package on npm | 29 March 2026 | C | Registry record of @aidesigner/agent-skills: created 29 March 2026, five versions up to 11 April 2026, maintainer tyleryin. | [12] |
| Entry price | US$25 a month for 100 credits, or US$250 a year | C | Pricing page. The largest tier is US$2,250 a month for 10,000 credits. The free plan gives 5 lifetime credits. | [2, 7] |
| Affiliate commission | 20% of each referred subscription, every month | C | Affiliate page: 20% recurring, a 30-day cookie and monthly payouts. | [13] |
| Team | 1 founder, 0 employees | C | Not verified: only the compiled page gives the headcount. The company's own pages name one person, the founder, and no source mentions staff. | [14, 5] |
| Outside funding | none reported | C | No source mentions investors. The compiled page calls him a solo indie hacker. | [14, 1] |
| Operating company | Friend Technologies, LLC | C | Terms of service: the laws of the United States apply, and there are no refunds unless the law requires one or the company decides otherwise. | [4] |
| Time from founding to the October 2026 figure | 11 months | calc | Calculated: November 2025 to October 2026. The founder entered the founding date, 14 November 2025; the Internet Archive's first copy of the site is from 7 January 2026. | [1, 17] |
How to read this table: a grade A value comes from the company's Stripe account through TrustMRR. A grade C value is a statement by the founder or the company on its own pages, a registry record, or a compiled third-party page that says so. A "calc" value was computed on this page from the rows above it.
| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 0 | 5 lifetime credits, no credit card |
| Pro, 100 credits | 20.83 | 25 | 100 credits a month; US$250 a year |
| Pro, 200 credits | 41.67 | 50 | 200 credits a month; US$500 a year |
| Pro, 400 credits | 83.33 | 100 | 400 credits a month; US$1,000 a year |
| Pro, 800 credits | 166.67 | 200 | 800 credits a month; US$2,000 a year |
| Pro, 1,200 credits | 245 | 294 | 1,200 credits a month; US$2,940 a year |
| Pro, 2,000 credits | 400 | 480 | 2,000 credits a month |
| Pro, 3,000 credits | 587.50 | 705 | 3,000 credits a month |
| Pro, 4,000 credits | 766.67 | 920 | 4,000 credits a month |
| Pro, 5,000 credits | 937.50 | 1,125 | 5,000 credits a month |
| Pro, 7,500 credits | 1,406.67 | 1,688 | 7,500 credits a month |
| Pro, 10,000 credits | 1,875 | 2,250 | 10,000 credits a month |
There is one paid plan, Pro, sold in eleven sizes by the number of credits, which are spent on generations. The page text shows only the 100-credit tier; the other tiers and the yearly prices were read in the page's script. A yearly plan costs ten times the monthly price, so two months are free. The page lists these Pro features: credit rollovers, unlimited published websites, custom domains, WebGL effects and backgrounds without a watermark, advanced image tools, high-quality exports, unlimited projects and priority support. The free plan gives 5 lifetime credits without a credit card. The terms say there are no refunds unless the law requires one or the company decides otherwise.
The timeline
From a founding date in November 2025 to a twelvefold jump in April 2026 and a slow decline after it, in eleven months. Each entry carries its grade.
- 14 November 2025CThe founding date that the founder entered on his TrustMRR profile. [1]
- December 2025AFirst Stripe revenue: US$638. [1]
- 7 January 2026CEarliest copy of aidesigner.ai in the Internet Archive. The archive has no earlier version of the site. [17]
- January to March 2026ARevenue of US$3,019, US$1,715 and US$1,155 a month. [1]
- 29 March 2026CFirst version of the npm package @aidesigner/agent-skills. One command installs the MCP server, so coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor can request designs from AIDesigner. [12, 9]
- April 2026ARevenue reaches US$14,082, 12.2 times March, the best month so far. [1]
- 1 May 2026CA compiled page reports that the founder announced US$9,500 MRR, up from under US$1,000 in 30 days, after posting a demo of each new feature on X, Threads and Reddit, and that he named churn as his biggest problem. Not verified. [14]
- 2 May 2026CThe company blog publishes a guide to front-end design with Claude Code that pairs Anthropic's own Frontend Design plugin with AIDesigner's MCP server. [8]
- June to October 2026CThe founder writes comparison posts on the company blog against Figma, Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Canva, Bolt and other tools. [7, 5, 6]
- May to September 2026AMonthly revenue goes from US$10,639 to US$8,841. [1]
- 16 October 2026AMRR of US$8,563 from 293 active subscriptions, US$10,378 in the last 30 days and US$79,038 in all. The latest blog posts are from 7 October 2026. [1, 6]
Why it worked
Four causes, in the order they mattered. Each one is a reusable lesson.
A problem stated in one line
The home page promises "Designs that don't look AI-generated". That speaks to people who build with AI coding assistants and get screens that all look alike. The company blog quotes Anthropic's own front-end guidance, which says that models "tend to converge toward generic" outputs.
Sold inside the coding tools
The MCP server puts AIDesigner inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code with Copilot and Windsurf. One command writes the configuration files, and the agent can then ask AIDesigner for a design and put the result into the project. The npm package appeared on 29 March 2026, and Stripe revenue in April was 12.2 times March.
Credits that grow with use
One paid plan with eleven credit tiers, from US$25 to US$2,250 a month, and a yearly price of ten months. Heavy users pay more without a sales call. The average active subscription brings in about US$29 a month, close to the entry tier.
Search pages and affiliates
The blog index lists 52 posts, many of them comparisons with Figma, Canva, Lovable, v0, Bolt, Framer and Webflow, written by the founder. The site also has single-purpose tool pages, such as an ASCII art generator and a website cloner, and an affiliate program that pays 20% of each referred subscription every month.
How it was built
These details come from the company's own pages and page code, the npm registry and a compiled third-party page. They are grade C. [2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]
- A Next.js web app. The page code loads Clerk for sign-in, and the checkout uses Stripe prices.
- Generation uses what the site calls "top design models" and "Fine-tuned models"; no page names the model provider. The API can first generate a reference image from the prompt, and the design model then works from that image. Its error list includes "upstream model failure".
- A compiled page says the pipeline uses fine-tuned image models such as Stable Diffusion or Flux. Not verified.
- Designs come out as Tailwind CSS code, the MCP page says, and can be edited on a canvas, exported, or published as a website on the user's own domain.
- The MCP server installs with npx -y @aidesigner/agent-skills init. For Claude Code it writes .mcp.json plus an agent, a command and a skill file. Sign-in uses OAuth, so no API key is stored in the user's project.
- A public API streams results in the OpenAI server-sent-event format, for developers who call it from their own code.
- Marketing: the founder's posts on X, Threads and Reddit (from the compiled page), the comparison posts on the blog, single-purpose tool pages, and a 20% recurring affiliate program.
Tools named in the sources
Each one opens its page in the Tools tab, with every story that uses it.
The dead that came before
Five companies in the Loot Drop database promised to automate web design or to turn designs into code. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.
The Grid
The promiseWebsites designed by AI, without a designer's fee.
Why it diedIt bet on AI before the AI was ready. Its designs looked clumsy next to polished and easy alternatives.
Pagedraw
The promiseTurn Sketch designs into React code automatically.
Why it diedIt built on Sketch while designers moved to Figma, and developers preferred to write the code by hand.
Haiku
The promiseTurn designers' detailed animations into code.
Why it diedFigma and Adobe XD covered the same ground, and the 2020 downturn ended it.
Pixate
The promiseMobile app prototypes for designers, without code.
Why it diedGoogle bought it and then set it aside, while design work moved to the web and to Figma.
Invision
The promiseClose the gap between designers' files and developers' code.
Why it diedFigma offered real-time collaboration in the browser, and the users moved there.
What changed
The Grid promised websites designed by AI in 2014 and died because the AI was not good enough. Pagedraw, Haiku and Pixate tried to turn designs into code and lost to design tools that more people used. AIDesigner makes both promises again, and two things are different. AI models in 2025 and 2026 can produce a layout from a sentence that 293 subscribers pay for, and many buyers now build with AI coding agents whose screens, the company's blog argues, look generic by default.
The second difference is distribution. Pagedraw and Haiku asked developers to add a new tool to their work. AIDesigner plugs into the coding agents that developers already run, through an open protocol, so a design request is one more command in the same session. The risk that ended the predecessors is still present: Figma, Vercel, Lovable and the model makers can add the same feature to products with far more users, and AIDesigner's revenue has fallen since April 2026.
Can one person copy it now?
The method, yes. The timing, not easily.
The April 2026 jump came while AI coding agents were new and their screens looked generic, and that space is now crowded with funded tools. What can be copied is the method: name a visible weakness of a popular AI tool, sell the fix inside that tool through MCP, and price by usage so that heavy users pay more.
Where it is still open: Other weak spots of AI coding agents that users complain about in public: accessibility, copywriting, charts, animation, and a consistent brand across many generated screens.
- 1Find a weakness that users of a popular AI tool complain about in public, and state it in one line on your home page.
- 2Ship the fix as an MCP server, so that it runs inside the agents that people already use, with one install command.
- 3Record a short demo of each new feature and post it where those users read, such as X and Reddit.
- 4Price in credits with many tiers and a yearly option, and pay affiliates a recurring share.
What to watch
The risks are the mirror image of the causes above.
Revenue is falling
September 2026 revenue was 37.2% below April, and MRR fell 5.3% in the 30 days to 16 October 2026. The last 30 days show +17.0% in revenue only because of one US$2,405 day. The compiled page says the founder calls churn his biggest problem (not verified).
Large funded competitors
Vercel's post of 11 October 2023 announced v0, introduced a few weeks before, which makes a website from a description of the idea. Lovable, an AI app builder, raised US$200 million at a US$1.8 billion valuation in July 2025, US$330 million in December 2025 and US$400 million at a US$13.3 billion valuation in August 2026. AIDesigner's own blog compares it with Figma, Figma Make, Canva, Uizard, Framer, Webflow and Bolt.
Dependence on model providers and coding agents
The site does not name the models it uses, and its API lists "upstream model failure" among its errors, so a provider's price change or outage reaches AIDesigner directly. Its MCP channel runs through Claude Code, Cursor and other agents that it does not control. Anthropic publishes its own Frontend Design plugin for the same problem, and AIDesigner's blog tells readers to install it first.
One person and a small paying base
No source mentions staff; only the compiled page gives a headcount, 0 employees. The 293 subscriptions at about US$29 a month are 1.6% of the 18,000 users that the home page claims.
Which revenue is counted
The Stripe account behind the TrustMRR figures is the one that AIDesigner's pricing page uses. The compiled page says the founder also built two other AI tools, and the TrustMRR profile does not say whether any other product sells through the same account.
A website cloner
One of the site's tools promises to "Clone any website's design instantly". Copying another company's design can raise copyright questions for the user and for AIDesigner.
Sources
The grade next to each source is the best grade that the source can support. "Read in full" means that the text of the page was downloaded and the numbers were checked in it.
- A TrustMRR markdown profile: AI Designer, revenue verified through a Stripe API key, last synced 16 October 2026Read the markdown profile. The revenue, MRR, subscription and monthly rows come from Stripe (grade A). The founding date, country, founder name, description and user estimate are written by the founder (grade C).
- C AIDesigner pricing page, read 16 October 2026Read in full. The page text shows the 100-credit tier; the eleven tiers with monthly and yearly prices and their Stripe price IDs were read as text in the page's script file.
- C AIDesigner home page, read 16 October 2026Read in full. Source for the user and design counts, the product list, the free credits and the quoted posts from X and Reddit users.
- C AIDesigner terms of serviceRead in full. Source for the operating company, the governing law and the refund policy.
- C AIDesigner blog, 22 August 2026: Figma Make Alternatives: 6 Better Tools, Tested (2026)Read in full. Written by Tyler Yin; its author box says that he is the founder of AIDesigner. Source for the founder's name and for the rivals that the company names.
- C AIDesigner blog index, read 16 October 2026Read in full. Lists 52 posts, many of them comparisons with other tools; the latest are dated 7 October 2026.
- C AIDesigner blog, 8 June 2026: AIDesigner vs Figma: Which AI Design Tool Wins? (2026)Read in full. Written by Tyler Yin. Source for the free plan's 5 lifetime credits.
- C AIDesigner blog, 2 May 2026: a guide to front-end design with Claude CodeRead the sections on why Claude Code interfaces look generic and on Anthropic's Frontend Design plugin.
- C AIDesigner MCP server documentationRead in full. Source for the install command, the files it writes and the supported coding agents.
- C AIDesigner MCP product pageRead in full. Source for the definition of MCP, the fine-tuned models and the Tailwind CSS output.
- C AIDesigner API referenceRead the sections on streaming, reference images and errors.
- C npm registry record for @aidesigner/agent-skillsRead in full. A registry record: created 29 March 2026, five versions up to 11 April 2026, maintainer tyleryin.
- C AIDesigner affiliate program pageRead in full. Source for the 20% recurring commission and the plan prices that it lists.
- C MRR Story, May 2026: From $1K to $9.5K MRR in 30 Days: The Solo AI Tool Fixing Ugly 'Vibe-Coded' AppsRead in full. The page says that it is compiled from public sources and presented in an interview format; it is not an interview. Used only for leads; every claim taken only from it is marked not verified.
- C Vercel blog, 11 October 2023: Announcing v0: Generative UIRead in full. Source for the date and purpose of v0.
- C Lovable blog index, read 16 October 2026Read the list of announcements: US$200 million at US$1.8 billion (17 July 2025), US$100 million ARR (23 July 2025), US$330 million (18 December 2025) and a US$400 million Series C at US$13.3 billion (12 August 2026).
- C Internet Archive availability record for aidesigner.aiRead in full. The closest copy to 1 January 2024 is from 7 January 2026, so the archive holds no earlier version of the site.
- C Loot Drop database export, 1,749 failed startupsLocal export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.