30 Products
128 Avg Interest
LastBasic 2.0 Top Launch
0.23 Avg Engagement

30 Prototyping products launched in 2023. Products below are sorted by engagement ratio, which weights discussion depth over raw popularity. 50 detailed conversations matter more than 500 drive-by clicks.

2025 2023

Q1 2023

Build your own professional services marketplace in a day
219

The most powerful solution to build service marketplaces from scratch. 3veta Marketplace Builder handles everything - from marketplace listings to managing bookings, in-app video calls, payments, and much more.

API Prototyping Tech
Feb 2023 180 discussions 0.82 engagement
Generate customized, realistic mock data & APIs, via GPT
86

Use GPT to generate a mock REST API backed by a realistic dataset – with just one phrase. Craft the dataset to your needs, plug in the generated API into your demos and prototypes to ship better and faster.

API Prototyping Developer Tools
Mar 2023 23 discussions 0.27 engagement
Transform your idea into the exact software product
81

Axactly provides a ready development plan for your future software product. Get a high-fidelity prototype tested with real users and ready-to-use software requirements. Build the right product on time and within the budget.

Prototyping Tech Development
Mar 2023 10 discussions 0.12 engagement
Usability Testing within your app on your real users
71

Usability Testing within your app on your real users: Don’t waste your time recruiting users for usability tests. Load your Figma prototype in your app and conduct your usability testing on your real users.

Design Tools User Experience Prototyping
Mar 2023 8 discussions 0.11 engagement
A collection of free Figma kits
109

FREE Figma templates to kick-start your next project. Easy to use and completely customizable. Start designing with a great foundation and stop wasting precious time.

Prototyping Design resources Design templates
Jan 2023 6 discussions 0.06 engagement
gRPC and HTTP mock APIs in the cloud
103

Mock.qa is a cloud-based service that offers gRPC and HTTP mock servers. Describe your backend with a single configuration file and use a fake API, simulate a variety of scenarios, take advantage of advanced request matching and dynamic templating.

Web App API Prototyping
Jan 2023 5 discussions 0.05 engagement

Q2 2023

Stunning mock dashboard in minutes
329

Mokkup is a cloud based mock dashboard creation tool that helps analysts create aesthetic wireframes without any design experience. With 100+ built-in templates and easy element replication in BI tools, this tool is ideal for turning facts into stories in mins

Design Tools Analytics Prototyping
Jun 2023 162 discussions 0.49 engagement
One-click export of Figma prototypes to GIF, webM or MP4
503

The only Figma Plugin that lets you export smart animations to GIF or MP4. Crafted with love, care and attention to fit into your favorite design app like a glove. Share videos with your team, create a slick marketing video or delightful micro-interactions.

Design Tools GIFs Prototyping
Apr 2023 197 discussions 0.39 engagement
Product photography made trivially easy
95

VirtualSnap is your own private virtual product photography studio! Take professional-level photographies of your own products or create brand new photos from a simple description with with the help of AI.

Prototyping Marketing Photography
Jun 2023 23 discussions 0.24 engagement
Get real in real time, drag and drop photo-real mockups
71

Visualize reality. See your ideas in real-world scenes, with photo-real inks, lighting and textures. Work fluidly and animate with snapshots. Present your branding, packaging and marketing like never before. Get real in real time with the all-new LiveSurface.

Design Tools Prototyping Marketing
Jun 2023 11 discussions 0.15 engagement
Generate mock data using AI
84

Save a lot of time creating mocked JSONS to test your apps You can create your classes or interfaces in any code language based on a JSON Or you can just ask for certaing mock data in a JSON The data its interpreted and giving accurated results using AI!

Prototyping Artificial Intelligence Tech
May 2023 12 discussions 0.14 engagement
A camera that takes photos using location data
282

Paragraphica is a context-to-image camera that uses location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a "photo" of a specific place and moment. The camera exists both as a physical prototype and a virtual camera that you can try.

Prototyping Photography Artificial Intelligence
Jun 2023 39 discussions 0.14 engagement
Keep track of iterations in FigJam and Figma
94

The sticker-widget for FigJam and Figma to timestamp your work so you can easily track iterations and understand your progress, now with additional statuses, colors, and date formats. Designed with unreasonable care for just enough control and joyful details.

Design Tools Productivity User Experience
Apr 2023 12 discussions 0.13 engagement
Gather feedback on prototypes, designs, mockups easily.
95

Protome is a free tool for UX designers, product managers and developers to create, share, collect comments and track interaction for Figma prototypes, images or PDFs.

Prototyping Developer Tools Design
May 2023 11 discussions 0.12 engagement
Dev tool - from prototype to production in seconds
85

Znote is the perfect sandbox for prototyping Break the codes with your Markdown and Javascript notes to explore your ideas with incredible productivity. πŸš€οΈ And now, you could forget the production step and deploy directly from your markdown 🀯

Prototyping Developer Tools Artificial Intelligence
Apr 2023 7 discussions 0.08 engagement
Test your designs with real users in the moment
82

In-product prototype testing empowers you to test designs, validate ideas and uncover pain-points with real users before you build. Launch features that your users love with in-the-moment prototype testing. Get started for free at https://ribbonapp.com

Design Tools User Experience Prototyping
May 2023 5 discussions 0.06 engagement

Q3 2023

Your gateway to seamless API mocking and robust development
21

Simplify API mocking with ease. Generate mock APIs effortlessly, customize responses, and boost development efficiency. Try it today!

Productivity API Prototyping
Sep 2023 8 discussions 0.38 engagement
All-in-one ad mockup generator
118

With Ad Mocker at your fingertips, easily create stunning previews for Facebook, Instagram, Google Display Network, and YouTube. Craft visually captivating ads with dynamic elements effortlessly.

Design Tools Prototyping Advertising
Aug 2023 18 discussions 0.15 engagement
Instantly make presentations from Figma frames
89

Prototype This! removes the pain of connecting frames one at a time. This allows you to easily connect tons of frames. This allows you to create smart animate presentations with a snap, or set up more advanced prototypes by establishing the initial connections

Design Tools User Experience Prototyping
Aug 2023 12 discussions 0.13 engagement
Pitch your ideas against each other to find a clear winner
86

Let your ideas compete against each other. Evaluate the effort, time spent, market access, resources, development costs, human workload, and overall feasibility. Then, pick the winner.

Prototyping A/B Testing Consulting
Aug 2023 5 discussions 0.06 engagement

Q4 2023

Your unconventional space to invent
127

For inventors: Bring ideas to life, collaborate, thrive in our ecosystem for unconventional inventions. Connect with design, creation, and market experts. For experts: Boost income with community support on the platform built for you. Unlock your innovation!

Freelance Prototyping Internet of Things
Oct 2023 142 discussions 1.12 engagement
No sign-up, unlimited AI & no-code MVP recipes
146

For makers who want to craft MVP effortlessly, Get unlimited AI-generated No-Code MVP recipes for your idea, and explore over 5000 No-Code and AI tools to bring it to life effortlessly. No sign-up required.

Prototyping Side Project No-Code
Oct 2023 51 discussions 0.35 engagement
Create landing pages in minutes, not hours
109

Swiddle generates mock ups, revisions based on your feedback, an editor (visual or code) to perfect your site and the ability to publish your website with 0 code or export it in React+JS/TS or HTML/JS. Go from idea to a live landing page in under 15 minutes.

Design Tools Prototyping Artificial Intelligence
Nov 2023 30 discussions 0.28 engagement
Build the right thing with AI-powered user interviews
118

Interview your customers at scale with Wondering's AI-Moderated User Interviews. Gather actionable user insights and grow your product by conducting and analyzing hundreds of user interviews at the same time.

User Experience Prototyping SaaS
Nov 2023 30 discussions 0.25 engagement
Marketplace for all things Framer, designed by top creators.
158

Explore collection of templates, components, overrides, tutorials and more, designed by top-tier creators. Become a seller and earn money by selling your Framer products.

Design Tools Prototyping E-Commerce
Nov 2023 33 discussions 0.21 engagement
Simple & easy to use mock api endpoints
84

Create mock API endpoints to use in your apps while you are actively building. Don't wait for API endpoints to be created, and outsource the burden of creating mock endpoints to spacehook. Utilise the power of deta space and get your own private instances!

API Prototyping Developer Tools
Oct 2023 15 discussions 0.18 engagement
Sketching with hardware
100

blokdots is a no-code software to enable everyone to create interactive hardware prototypes. No technical barriers, just pure creative exploration. It even seamlessly connects to your favorite design tools like ProtoPie and Figma!

Prototyping Hardware No-Code
Oct 2023 17 discussions 0.17 engagement
Convert Figma designs into Tailwind CSS code in 1 click
145

Automate Figma to Tailwind CSS translation, save time, enhance collaboration, and focus on exceptional user experiences with the Figma to Tailwind CSS plugin.

Design Tools Prototyping No-Code
Oct 2023 22 discussions 0.15 engagement
Craft beautiful UI tables in Figma or copy HTML Tailwind CSS
79

Customize tables with shadows, borders, and more – it's like giving your tables a makeover! ✨ Striped rows, highlighted header, and pixel-perfect columns are a breeze. Plus, we've got a magic button that serves up HTML and Tailwind CSS code for you!πŸͺ„

Design Tools Prototyping Web Design
Nov 2023 11 discussions 0.14 engagement
No-code prompt engineering
100

No-code prompt engineering tool designed to simplify the process of composing prompts with product data for generative AI. The product is aimed at teams who need to prototype new generative AI features with LLMs.

Prototyping Developer Tools Artificial Intelligence
Nov 2023 9 discussions 0.09 engagement

Prototyping in 2023: The Data

The category grew by 150% compared to 2022, moving from 12 launches to 30. Average interest score across all 2023 launches: 128. Average engagement ratio: 0.23.

Frequently Asked Questions

More products means more competition for attention. The average drops as a category gets crowded, even if the best products keep scoring higher. That divergence is worth watching.

Use the year navigation at the top of each category page. The trends page for each category also shows top products by year in a single view.

Engagement ratio captures discussion quality. A product can game interest with a well-timed launch. It can't fake 200 substantive discussion threads. We default to engagement ratio because it's harder to inflate.

Highest community engagement at launch, measured by interest score and engagement ratio. These are traction rankings, not editorial picks.

Launch timing matters. Q1 products face different competition than Q4 products. Seasonal patterns affect both launch volume and community attention. Quarterly grouping makes comparisons fairer.

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