Art Direction Daily · May 2026
Editorial coverage of Inspector as a live-page, browser-first visual editor that forwards changes to a connected coding agent and writes patches back to code.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Inspector (tryinspector.com) is a YC F25, San Francisco-based developer tool for visual front-end editing: it connects a live browser UI to AI coding agents so developers can click, drag, and prompt changes that are written back into the codebase.
Primary product
Visual front-end editor / AI IDE for front-end development
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI-powered front-end development tools
Business model
freemium
subscription SaaS
developer tooling
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Investors
Work & culture
Early-stage, founder-led, build-in-public culture with Discord-based community support and a local-first developer workflow.
Product & market
Pricing
Free core product with a paid AI-agent add-on reported in launch coverage; no detailed public enterprise pricing page was found.
Differentiators
- —Visual point-and-click editing on a live running frontend
- —Writes changes back to the local codebase instead of a throwaway DOM overlay
- —Works with multiple AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex
- —DOM-aware screenshots and element-to-code context
- —Source-control support for branches, commits, and pull requests
- —Local-first desktop workflow
- —PanelBench benchmark / published visual-accuracy testing
Technology
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
GitHub import / pull requests
React
Next.js
Vite
MacOS desktop app
MCP
local codebase workflows
Customers
front-end engineers
React/Next.js/Vite teams
developers using AI coding agents
product engineers
Competitors
Cursor
Builder.io Visual Copilot
v0
Onlook
Piny
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
14.7K
Latest news
LinkedIn / Michael Klikushin · Feb 2026
Founder post stating Inspector reached Product of the Day on Product Hunt.
LinkedIn / Inspector · Feb 2026
Founder/company post announcing the Product Hunt launch and asking for community support.
Y Combinator · Nov 2025
Official YC launch post describing Inspector as an AI IDE for front-end that bridges the browser DOM and codebase with visual selection, screenshots, and DevTools context.
LinkedIn / Y Combinator · Nov 2025
YC’s launch post repeats the product positioning and the founders’ origin story, including their HCI background and the browser-to-code workflow.
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