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Onlook

Winter 2025 · Active

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Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2024

Team size: 2

About

Onlook is the fastest way for anyone to build, deploy, and iterate on websites and web apps. We built an open-source, visual editor for code that merges design, development, and AI. Since launching, Onlook hit #1 on Hacker News, was the #1 trending repo on GitHub—above DeepSeek—and has earned over 8,500 GitHub stars. Founded by Daniel Farrell, a designer of 10+ years and former Head of Growth, and Kiet Ho, an ex-Amazon and ex-ServiceNow engineer, Onlook is on a mission to finally solve the gap between design and development.

Founders

  • Daniel FarrellFounder

    Cofounder and CEO of Onlook. Designer, GTM strategist, and micromobility maniac now building in the design <> dev space. Professional designer for over a decade, first 100 employee at Bird on the Global Expansion Strategy team, cofounder of Wanderlift (long-distance ridesharing) and former Head of Growth at DIMO.

  • Kiet HoCo-Founder / CTO

    Co-Founder, CTO at Onlook Immigrant. Open-source. Martial arts practitioner. Perpetually messed-up shoulders.