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Tempo is a Visual Editor for React, which gives PMs, designers, and engineers the ability to collaborate visually on code. It offers the familiar UX of a design tool but functions like an IDE under the hood. Tempo is optimized for Vite and Tailwind.
So far this has been my favorite full stack AI IDE provider. I am still surprised that these tools all have the same early user issues of building the authentication flow out incorrectly and getting in loops of wrong instructions. Tempo Labs suggests Auth0, which is great for it's simplicity, but doesn't provide the correct instructions off the bat for redirect URIs and env keys. Every tool I've used for AI development gets lost in this step. I end up having to put in the URL for the project saying, "Shouldn't the redirect be this URL instead of localhost ?" Then it acts like it is something it looked over.
At Chorus AI we were early partners with Tempo Labs (YC S23) for their Agent+ plan. It's cut our front end development costs in half and increased or velocity by 3x.
Amazing service! A lot of time was saved by generating and editing templates from scratch, and the needs of UI designers were fully met. There is a great balance between when you need to do prompt-editing of the UI elements on the preview and when you need to go into the code to make custom adjustments.
Using Tempo Labs has been a game-changer for me. The AI-powered UI generation makes building React components incredibly fast, and the drag-and-drop editor lets me tweak designs effortlessly. I love the one-click deployment feature—it’s perfect for quick feedback and testing. While it’s currently focused on React, it integrates seamlessly with tools like Storybook, making collaboration easier. It’s saved me so much time and completely transformed how I work!
Seems very promising, but not really living up to the claims made by the company or even the docs. You follow the process, exactly as described, only to realize when you're trying to launch anything that "Oh, Tempo didn't actually build out an auth structure," and "Oh, it keeps saying it is doing things, but not actually doing them, changing any code, or anything else, even though it says it is." Meanwhile, your credits shrink and the app freezes (losing you more credits). I know we are all spoiled by really powerful AI tools for app development now, but at the very least the product should do what it claims to. Which at least in my case, this doesn't. It has huge potential, but I think it is overpromising by a lot.
