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THE DEATH OF COOLORS, And the rise of Claude
In short: SaaS as we know it no longer exists ⤑ or is about to disappear. Sad, because for a long time we were inseparable: them, me, and my wallet. A codependent, expensive, yet productive relationship.
This case is small, easy to picture:
For years I was an evangelist for Coolors, a web app I fell in love with the first time I hit [space]. What’s it for? Creating color schemes. It was one of my must-haves, and honestly, the prettiest part of starting a new project.
But then came AI and vibe-coding, and everything changed (for better and for worse). To be fair, we’re still far from shipping anything truly solid to production ⤑ but when it comes to building tools and saving time, it works so well it feels like cheating.
Here’s the thing: whenever I start a project, I build a moodboard first. It’s like a scrapbook where I throw images, textures, videos, data, graphs ⤑ basically anything Figma can handle. What goes in there represents the original idea of the business and what the business thinks it knows about its users (depending, of course, on the research budget).
Among all that chaos, there’s a small, elite group of images under the label “Color scheme.” When it’s time to design, one of those images defines the color language of the project. Simple ⤑ and a little insane.
Coolors is great, but I’m Figma-first; I hate leaving the canvas. And that’s the point! I told Claude about my little pain point, and in the time it takes to watch an episode of The Office, we built a plugin that extracts color palettes from images ⤑ without ever leaving Figma. No more copy/pasting hex codes, no more endless app-switching; now I tweak shades directly on the canvas and, in the end, just hit a button to get all the tokens ready for design.
Claude freed me from SaaS ⤑ And now I don’t know what to do with this traitor feeling, because it’s not just SaaS anymore. Besides being developers, Claude or Gemini (when the tokens run out) are teachers, consultants, editors, file cleaners ⤑ you name it. I spend more time listening to AI music than human music, ask Perplexity or NotebookLM more questions than my R&D team, and practice languages with my AI tutor more than with my actual one.
Um… I guess I’ll start an urban garden to make up for it.
Get the Figma plugin or explore the code on GitHub.
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Ultraligero / JS © 2025. / Bogotá ✘ Remote
Article
THE DEATH OF COOLORS, And the rise of Claude
In short: SaaS as we know it no longer exists ⤑ or is about to disappear. Sad, because for a long time we were inseparable: them, me, and my wallet. A codependent, expensive, yet productive relationship.
This case is small, easy to picture:
For years I was an evangelist for Coolors, a web app I fell in love with the first time I hit [space]. What’s it for? Creating color schemes. It was one of my must-haves, and honestly, the prettiest part of starting a new project.
But then came AI and vibe-coding, and everything changed (for better and for worse). To be fair, we’re still far from shipping anything truly solid to production ⤑ but when it comes to building tools and saving time, it works so well it feels like cheating.
Here’s the thing: whenever I start a project, I build a moodboard first. It’s like a scrapbook where I throw images, textures, videos, data, graphs ⤑ basically anything Figma can handle. What goes in there represents the original idea of the business and what the business thinks it knows about its users (depending, of course, on the research budget).
Among all that chaos, there’s a small, elite group of images under the label “Color scheme.” When it’s time to design, one of those images defines the color language of the project. Simple ⤑ and a little insane.
Coolors is great, but I’m Figma-first; I hate leaving the canvas. And that’s the point! I told Claude about my little pain point, and in the time it takes to watch an episode of The Office, we built a plugin that extracts color palettes from images ⤑ without ever leaving Figma. No more copy/pasting hex codes, no more endless app-switching; now I tweak shades directly on the canvas and, in the end, just hit a button to get all the tokens ready for design.
Claude freed me from SaaS ⤑ And now I don’t know what to do with this traitor feeling, because it’s not just SaaS anymore. Besides being developers, Claude or Gemini (when the tokens run out) are teachers, consultants, editors, file cleaners ⤑ you name it. I spend more time listening to AI music than human music, ask Perplexity or NotebookLM more questions than my R&D team, and practice languages with my AI tutor more than with my actual one.
Um… I guess I’ll start an urban garden to make up for it.
Get the Figma plugin or explore the code on GitHub.
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THE DEATH OF COOLORS, And the rise of Claude
In short: SaaS as we know it no longer exists ⤑ or is about to disappear. Sad, because for a long time we were inseparable: them, me, and my wallet. A codependent, expensive, yet productive relationship.
This case is small, easy to picture:
For years I was an evangelist for Coolors, a web app I fell in love with the first time I hit [space]. What’s it for? Creating color schemes. It was one of my must-haves, and honestly, the prettiest part of starting a new project.
But then came AI and vibe-coding, and everything changed (for better and for worse). To be fair, we’re still far from shipping anything truly solid to production ⤑ but when it comes to building tools and saving time, it works so well it feels like cheating.
Here’s the thing: whenever I start a project, I build a moodboard first. It’s like a scrapbook where I throw images, textures, videos, data, graphs ⤑ basically anything Figma can handle. What goes in there represents the original idea of the business and what the business thinks it knows about its users (depending, of course, on the research budget).
Among all that chaos, there’s a small, elite group of images under the label “Color scheme.” When it’s time to design, one of those images defines the color language of the project. Simple ⤑ and a little insane.
Coolors is great, but I’m Figma-first; I hate leaving the canvas. And that’s the point! I told Claude about my little pain point, and in the time it takes to watch an episode of The Office, we built a plugin that extracts color palettes from images ⤑ without ever leaving Figma. No more copy/pasting hex codes, no more endless app-switching; now I tweak shades directly on the canvas and, in the end, just hit a button to get all the tokens ready for design.
Claude freed me from SaaS ⤑ And now I don’t know what to do with this traitor feeling, because it’s not just SaaS anymore. Besides being developers, Claude or Gemini (when the tokens run out) are teachers, consultants, editors, file cleaners ⤑ you name it. I spend more time listening to AI music than human music, ask Perplexity or NotebookLM more questions than my R&D team, and practice languages with my AI tutor more than with my actual one.
Um… I guess I’ll start an urban garden to make up for it.
Get the Figma plugin or explore the code on GitHub.
MORE READS
Ultraligero / JS © 2025. / Bogotá ✘ Remote