{"id":95471,"title":"Inspector—AI IDE for front-end","tagline":"Inspector helps front-end engineers ship faster with AI by automating the most frustrating part of the job — gathering context between the browser and the codebase.","body":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxd1kO10qz4\n\n\\\n\\\nWe’re [Michael](https://x.com/mkliku) and [Quentin](https://x.com/Qromerolauro) from **Inspector**, and we’ve spent the past few years building tools and interfaces that sit between humans and computers — from **HCI research** at **Carnegie Mellon** to products at **Character AI** and **Oracle.**\n\nWhen we started building web-based games, we were spending **12 hours a day tweaking front-ends** and going through the same loop over and over: wireframing in Figma, adding screenshots to Cursor, and debugging in Chrome DevTools. It felt like a constant game of telephone to get our agents the right context from the DOM, codebase, and how it actually looked.\\\n\\\nThat’s why we built **Inspector**, an AI IDE for front-end that connects your browser and codebase. Inspector lets you **select elements visually** and **prompt changes**, giving coding agents access to the same runtime context developers have: **visuals, elements, and logs**. With Inspector, you’re editing right in the front-end, not buried under tabs and screenshots.\n\n# \n\n# **Inspector lets you:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/3679fe55-2611-4093-9ef5-bc6d6cfbe022)\n\n**Take DOM-aware screenshots** that snap to elements and **auto-attach to chat.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/7673c2d3-c252-442c-8714-32468eeee92b)\n\nClick elements to use **their exact place in your codebase** as context for your agent run.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/4a9af745-7468-4584-88ae-3ad98c89a426)\n\nUse the terminal tool to **attach DevTools terminal output** straight to the conversation.\n\n# **Our Ask:**\n\n* If you’re a front-end dev, **check out Inspector** at [tryinspector.com](http://tryinspector.com) \n* Let us watch you code. If you’re a front-end developer email us at [founders@tryinspector.com](mailto:founders@tryinspector.com) so we can learn more about how you work!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/22f1298d-56d2-4949-a642-6443a28c4b0f)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/69870ad5-f57d-48f0-85fe-ef1b9382ea52)\n\n","slug":"Opr-inspector-ai-ide-for-front-end","created_at":"2025-11-12T23:10:49.777Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T02:47:52.815Z","total_vote_count":38,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Opr-inspector-ai-ide-for-front-end","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95471\u0026key=user_uploads/1799847/69870ad5-f57d-48f0-85fe-ef1b9382ea52","company":{"id":30929,"name":"Inspector","slug":"inspector","url":"https://www.tryinspector.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3a74c32ba5c193f4216d063ad72608f841e04786.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","Design","Design Tools"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30929"}}