I just launched my GitHub as a designer

I just launched my GitHub. As a designer.

For years the line was clear. Designers ship Figma. Engineers ship code. My GitHub was a placeholder with a broken avatar.

That line stopped making sense a while ago. With Claude Code, Cursor and a decent sense of product, I can take an idea from a rough thought to something real and deployable in a weekend.

So I stopped treating GitHub like someone else's house.

What is up there now: - web-app-starter - an opinionated React + Vite template. React 18, TypeScript, Tailwind, TanStack Query, Zustand, Zod. Clone it and start building, no setup overhead - jewelry-ai-advisor - an AI product advisor built with Next.js 15 and Claude

What is next: - a small design-to-code toolkit that turns Figma components into production-ready React - a Claude Code subagent pack focused on product design workflows - a public build log for each repo so the process is visible, not just the output

None of this replaces design. It extends it. The Figma file is still the thinking. The repo is just where the thinking stops being a mockup.

If you are a designer sitting on an empty GitHub, this is your sign. Ship one ugly repo this week. The second one gets easier.

github.com/petermarciniak