Usman Bashir

Building the future of design @trysvglab

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

Today, I am launching SVG Lab.

I kept opening a whole-ass design suite just to move a logo, clean an SVG, or prep an asset for animation.

Absurd.

So I built the browser SVG editor I wanted: tools up front, one artboard, clean exports, imagination unblocked.

Video made with @HyperFrames_ and Codex.

[SVG Lab @trysvglab]

Every modern UI is full of SVGs.

icons, logos, illustrations, empty states, tiny visual details.

but editing one still means opening a heavy design app or touching path data by hand.

SVG Lab is a browser editor for drawing, cleaning, tweaking, and exporting SVGs fast.

[SVG Lab @trysvglab]

You drew a gradient, a blur and a mask. You exported SVG. You got a PNG in an SVG wrapper.

The spec has a defs block for exactly this. Most exporters render past it.

How to tell, in a 20 second check: https://t.co/qgZsltLI4j

[SVG Lab @trysvglab]

We traced a logo back from its own PNG.

It came back almost 8x bigger, one colour off, with the corners of a plain rectangle cut away.

What an image to SVG trace actually gives you, measured: https://t.co/5tWTOBruwN

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@SamVale29 Can you call yourself a founder if a freelance developer built your whole product?

Yes you can. The same logic applies to building with Claude.

[Rajiv Ayyangar @rajivayyangar]

As CEO of Product Hunt, I see hundreds of launches a week. One trait separates winners from losers.

Every few months, new models come out. Some products become better, effortlessly. Some don't improve, or become irrelevant.

This property needs a name. I'm calling it Buoyancy.

Buoyant startups rise with model improvements the way a boat rises with the tide.

Anti-buoyant startups come in two flavors: over-scaffolded (which hinders the new, smarter models) and too thin - which makes them redundant when models improve.

To be buoyant, you need a "hull" - usually proprietary data, a vertical-specific harness, network effects, or distribution advantage. This hull keeps you buoyant as models improve.

Hulls are the new moats.

My number one advice to startups in 2026: Be buoyant. Find your hull.

(Full essay on my blog)

[Jacob Counsell @JacobCounsell]

My agent is using LaunchChair to build a new marketing tool for social growth that Claire and I actually want to use daily.

Entire product created with just a short sentence, LaunchChair handles all the rest and it won’t be slop. 😎

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@JacobCounsell Really awesome 😎

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

Bots get triggered when you call them bots.
Many commenting under this post are not even heavy users.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@TJeparskis Bot again. Only a bot can say this.
Tricking people into thinking that current weekly usage is a good idea, which runs out in 10 hours, then you have to sit for a reset from Tibo for like days. At least, this is giving us 2X weekly usage which basically increases 5h usage too.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@lucas_builds Send Haiku and Sonnet subagents at high efforts for code review. Should be multiple agents.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@iamshubhransh @figma SVG Lab also shows when an agent is working on a design using SVG Lab MCP. Take a look here: https://t.co/7lag4uvtiL

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@maxkalashnikoff Actually, I was at your stage a few months ago when I saw people yapping about this & thought why not give it a try. Thankfully it saved my product because I was going to shut it down.

If people don't know about your product outside of X, they can't sign up or buy it.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

Why not call them "SI Parties"?

[Elshayib @elshayib_]

Data Centers are called that because it's mostly storage for data, the Centers used for SI are SI Factories. At least that's what Jensen calls it.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@Rasmic I need free GPUs.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@adriel_solo @TJeparskis Dude, ok lets set the model to high or medium because below that its just GPT 3.5 all over again. You will still run out in 2 days, not a week. Also xhigh & high is where GPT 6.1 Sol gives some performance in coding, below that, better use Luna then.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

X feels like it has more bots than humans.

Whoever controls these bots is pushing narratives, manipulating public opinion, and convincing people to support things that go against their own interests.

People think they're thinking for themselves.

Somebody gotta stop this.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@alexmichaelio Its the same as burning your weekly limit in 10 hours only on Max Plan and then waiting for a reset. 2X usage increases 5 hour usage limit. So stop whinning about it.

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

I am pretty sure the guys hitting "same usage" option are Bots.
No one can be as dumb as these guys are.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Pro users, would you rather have

[Usman Bashir @usman_basheers]

@weswinder Ok, I guess we already had something like this in Claude:
An Overseer session and Executor Session.
But I guess this Coordinator agent takes that a step further.