KNOWLEDGE NOTES

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Indie Building / AI Products and Assisted Design

Codex + Figma Toolchain (Steps and Skills for Installing Figma Skill/MCP · Generating Chart Component Library Slides · Converting Prototypes to Figma · Automatic SVG Icon Replacement)

A complete operation manual compiled by Will (will-ai-note) on "using the Codex Agent to write real designs directly to the Figma canvas via Figma MCP". It covers three parts: ① Environment setup — installing the Figma remote/desktop MCP server for Codex (to grant Codex permission to operate Figma) + installing/managing the official Figma Skill; ② Uses and prompts for seven core skills — figma-use (directly modify the canvas: create Frames/components/variables/Auto Layout), figma-use-slides (generate PPT inner pages), figma-generate-diagram (text → editable flowcharts/sequence diagrams/ER diagrams), figma-generate-design (code/HTML → Figma UI), figma-generate-library (codebase → design system Library), prototype-to-figma (running prototype → frame-by-frame Figma state drafts), Community skills; ③ Combined workflows — two-way sync between code prototypes and Figma, direct interface output from base screenshots, interaction framework → new interface, scanning local SVG icons for automatic semantic matching and replacement. Each section provides the Why/when to use/reusable prompts/pitfalls (e.g., figma-use requires a paid Full/Dev seat, Dev seats can only write in drafts, prototype-to-figma has spacing bugs but can split pages frame by frame). Division of labor with [[newtype-ai-coding]]: that article covers AI Coding tool stack selection and core mindsets, while this article focuses on the concrete implementation down to skills and prompts for the "design/prototype engineering" segment.

FigmaPrototype designAI ToolsEnglish edition
AI Product Practice / Other Product, Design and Learning Materials

Going Global / AI Product Tools Collection Directory (Will's Product Hunt Ecosystem Tool Link Index Organized by Industry + Category, index_only)

This is a bookmark collection of going-global + AI product tool links exported by Will from Product Hunt / Notion. It is neither a design methodology nor a tutorial — each entry only contains "product name + official website URL + bilingual category title". It covers 26 major industry categories (AI Agents / LLMs / Voice AI / E-commerce / Finance / Design & Creativity / Engineering & Development / Productivity / Company Operations / Product R&D / Marketing & Sales / Social & Community / Consumer / Health & Fitness / Healthcare / Travel / Education / Real Estate / Industry / Government / Home / Physical Products / Plugins / Platforms / Web3, etc.) plus one Mobbin App/Web design reference list, with around 256 subcategories and approximately 2,600+ tool links. Its purpose is "when I need to find a certain type of tool (payment/translation/AI avatar/no-code website building/CRM…), quickly recall which benchmarkable references Will has bookmarked". Design knowledge such as i18n / global design patterns / ethics is not included here; see nngroup-patterns-ethics-global-emerging.

AI ToolsProduct DiscoveryTool directoryEnglish edition

newtype · AI Tool Stack in Practice and Evolution

Huang Yihe's AI tool stack usage and recommendation evolution from 2024-03 to 2026-05. Local model layer (Ollama/LM Studio/MLX) / Frontend layer (AnythingLLM/Open WebUI/LobeChat/ChatWise/Cherry Studio) / Knowledge base layer (MaxKB/RAGFlow/Obsidian Copilot) / Mobile (Enchanted/Apollo) / Configuration and performance (Mac mini M4 / 3060 / DeepSeek-R1 performance comparison) / Lao Huang's daily combo (Gemini + Grok + Raycast + Cursor + NotebookLM)

AI ToolsLocal ModelsTool selectionEnglish edition

newtype Planet Q&A Highlights (2025 H1)

30+ selected Q&A entries from Huang Yihe (newtype)'s Planet community from January to July 2025. Beginner learning path (Learning by doing: try all three models → ChatWise/Cherry Studio → OpenRouter) / Network conditions (US residential IP / Claude Code subscription vs API) / Multi-platform strategy (Domestic: WeChat Channels 68k + Bilibili & Douyin 40k combined + Xiaohongshu 10k / Overseas: YouTube + X + Medium + Reddit + newtype.pro) / Three reasons for not joining WeChat groups (filtering / education stage / time and energy) / AI Coding tool stack (Cursor + Claude Code complement each other) / Reasons for being bearish on Workflow vs bullish on MCP / Prompt House design philosophy (2-step MCP tool call) / Video production workflow (A Roll + B Roll + Screen Studio + OBS) / Three reasons for not subscribing to ChatGPT / RAG vs Fine-tune decision-making / Note structure Input-Processing-Output / Three things that don't rely on self-discipline (sense of mission + physical stamina + not forcing yourself). This is a "Q&A scenario" supplement to [[newtype-mindset-super-individual]] and [[newtype-knowledge-system]]

AI ToolsAI ProgrammingAgentsPromptsEnglish edition
Indie Building / Xiaohongshu Vibe Coding

Xiaohongshu / AI Tools + Skill Tutorial Collection

A collection of 18 hands-on AI tool/Skill tutorials from a Xiaohongshu vibecoding creator. Covers: ① Claude Code Pixel Sprite Agent (virtual office visualized agent) ② Codex + Remotion for making follower surge animations ③ Vibe Marketing Skill for batch video production (FFmpeg concatenation, Skill calling local services) ④ Automated intelligence system (self-evolving scoring Auto-Belief referencing Kafka) ⑤ Getting IELTS 7.5 without paid classes using Claude Code Skill (IELTS Diagnose/Speaking/Writing/Reading Skill suite + Gemini Live + Notebook LM) ⑥ Obsidian skill for diagramming (Skill from Obsidian founder, draws H16Z long-form article logic diagrams in 10 seconds) ⑦ Advanced HTML PPT (3 techniques) ⑧ Google POMLY AI marketing tool ⑨ Reproducing LM with Karpathy's 243-line nanochat ⑩ Gemini+Antigravity dual-platform game

Vibe CodingAI ToolsAutomationEnglish edition