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Once UI is becoming more than a design system

The tools I built as separate answers to separate bottlenecks are becoming one system.
Updated 7h ago
Designing for Humans. Building for Agents.
Hi {{first_name|Oncer}}, Once UI started as the thing underneath my work. Over time, that foundation turned into a much larger stack: Aveiro for publishing, Chirio for distribution infrastructure, Frametic for product visuals, and now more experiments growing around them. I kept thinking about what Once UI Pro should mean in that world.
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I don't want Pro to become just another download

The people who bought Once UI Pro supported the foundation before most of these products existed. So instead of treating every new product as a completely separate relationship, I want that early support to carry forward. Once UI Pro members get 50% off the first 6 months of every new product I release. That includes Aveiro, Frametic, Chirio, and future products as they launch. I'll also personally help you get set up and onboarded.

Don't have Once UI Pro?

You can still try the new products at an early rate. Use code FRAMETICS for 50% off your first 3 months. The Pro member offer is intentionally stronger because I want long-time supporters to keep benefiting as the ecosystem grows, but I also want there to be a low-friction way in if you're discovering these products now.

Why now

The products are starting to connect in ways that make this more useful than a generic discount. Aveiro can now work much more deeply with AI through its MCP server, handle publishing workflows, social review, monetization, and increasingly large multilingual content systems. Frametic turns live product interfaces into visual assets and videos. It is also free to use, so you do not have to pay anything to try it on a real project. I would love to see what people make with it: published work can appear in the showcase, and any setup can be released as a reusable template for the community. Chirio handles the publishing rails underneath social workflows. The interesting part is not owning three subscriptions. It is being able to use them together as one small creative stack.

The broader idea

I've spent the last few years building tools whenever I hit a bottleneck: interface, publishing, distribution, visuals, automation. At first they looked like separate projects. Increasingly, they look like parts of the same system.
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We are also building Once UI 2.0 now. It is a major architectural overhaul that will open our ecosystem for pure React and Tailwind users. We will take this opportunity to standardize component APIs, improve performance and reduce reliance on client components whenever possible. A codemod will handle migration wherever it can.
The Once UI Pro offer is being rebuilt alongside it. The ecosystem benefit in this email is one part of a broader rethink of what Pro should become in 2.0.
Once UI is still the foundation. I want Pro membership to reflect that — not as a loyalty badge, but as a practical advantage whenever the ecosystem grows.

If you're already on Once UI Pro

Reply to this email and tell me which product you want to try first.
I'll help with the onboarding personally and make sure you get the 50% rate for the first six months.
If you're building something that could use several parts of the stack, tell me what you're working on. That's especially useful for me right now because I want to see where the products genuinely connect in real workflows.

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See you next week.
— Lorant