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I built a free and open source alternative to paper.design and pen.dev.

Developer Nic Touron has released Marver, a free and open-source alternative to paper.design and pen.dev. The tool aligns AI with users visually on a shared canvas computed from local files, enabling spec, wireframe, and design workflows using actual code. Marver is available on npm as @marver-design/marver.

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I built a free and open source alternative to paper.design and pen.dev.
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