Stagger
Production SaaS generating React loading animations from natural-language prompts.
Live at stagger.dev: describe an animation, get production-ready TSX.
Stagger is a live SaaS, running under the AKBUILDS banner. The idea for stagger came from a struggle to build production-ready vector graphics and animations that didn't look exactly like every other animation on the web. It takes a natural-language prompt and produces a self-contained TSX component using motion/react and Tailwind CSS. No runtime dependency on Stagger required. There's a curated library of 100+ pre-built animations, Sandpack-powered in-browser previews, and a Brand Kit system that applies your brand tokens to anything generated. Full production stack: Clerk auth, Stripe billing, rate limiting, background jobs, validation, and observability.
Output is self-contained TSX using motion/react and Tailwind. Copy, paste, ship. Zero runtime dependency on Stagger.
- 01Live, paying SaaS with three pricing tiers
- 02100+ curated animations shipped in the library
- 03Self-contained TSX output. No runtime tie-in for customers
- 04Full production stack: auth, billing, rate limiting, validation, observability
01. Core product
- AI generation: describe any loading state in plain English, get production TSX back
- Curated library of 100+ pre-built animations across loaders, icons, transitions
- Sandpack-powered in-browser preview of every generated component
- Brand Kit system: apply your brand colors, typography, and design tokens to generations
- Copy-paste output with zero runtime dependency on Stagger
02. Asset library
- Loaders: skeletons, spinners, dots, progress bars, shimmer, AI states, chat indicators
- Icons: state-toggle icons and status icons with full state-machine animations
- Transitions: page transitions, modals, drawers, notifications, toasts
03. Platform
- Clerk auth with social providers
- Multi-tier stripe billing with usage-based pricing
- Upstash Redis rate limiting per user
- Inngest background jobs for async generation
- MCP server (v2) planned for Cursor and Claude Code
- API access planned for the Studio tier
04. Quality & observability
- Validation pipeline checks generated code for correctness before serving it
- Sentry for error tracking
- PostHog for product analytics
- Defined performance budgets for load time and bundle size
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Turborepo Monorepo |
+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| apps/web | packages/shared | packages/prompts |
| Next.js App | Zod schemas | System prompt |
| (marketing + app) | Drizzle schema | Few-shot examples |
| | Shared types | Prompt builder |
+-------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| packages/library: 100+ curated animation components |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
User Prompt
|
v
+------------------+
| Prompt Builder |
| (system prompt + |
| few-shot + |
| brand kit) |
+------------------+
|
v
+------------------+
| Claude Sonnet |
| (generation) |
+------------------+
|
v
+------------------+
| Validation |
| Pipeline |
| (syntax, deps, |
| Tailwind, a11y) |
+------------------+
|
v
+------------------+
| Sandpack Preview |
| + Copy TSX |
+------------------+Prompt builder shapes the request, Claude generates, validation gates the result.
