shadcn.io

[boggye]

Hello shadcn-ui owners,

Not sure if you are aware, but a new site poped up, https://www.shadcn.io/ . I think it is a disingenuous website that appropriated the name shadcn and now they pretend to be "The AI-Native shadcn/ui Component Library for React".

I connected to their discord group and I asked why they used the name shadcn and they deleted my message. Then I called them out and they kicked me out of their discord server.

It is like the world needs more AI slop. Now every Tom, Dick and Harry can pretend they can write software and unfortunately, they cannot even come up with an original name. They want to leech off of existing products created by humans. What does it even mean "AI-Native"? AI has been trained on content made by humans.

If you can do something about it, please do. At least, if you are not already aware of it, you are now.

[rizaldywirawan]

I hope they have shadcn consent, otherwise it's so unethical.

[boggye]

I don't disagree with you that it is unethical, but unfortunately, unethical or not, shadcn-ui is open source. I am not not sure if they, i.e. the org behind shadcn-ui (is it vercel?, can do anything about it. I really hope nobody is going to use shadcn.io and pay them any money.

[michael-masarik]

I guess because they have an MCP, they can get away with changing for it - but in my experience, ais are already pretty good at building shadcn/ui components (no need for the MCP). I also think that open source registries are better because the ai can go to the repo and read the spec directly (so it knows exactly what it is installing).