I led design teams at big tech companies. Vibecoding broke our Figma feedback loop so I built the missing piece.
I led product design teams at big tech companies for years, and over the last year the prototypes changed. Designers stopped building click-throughs in Figma and started vibecoding real SwiftUI apps. The prototypes got dramatically better and the feedback loop got dramatically worse.
When the work moved to real builds, none of the Figma Feedback loop came along. And our builds weren’t going through TestFlight, they went out through internal distribution tools or got manually installed on somebody’s test device so we didn't have access to the TestFlight loop. As the person reviewing the work, I had nowhere to put feedback. And the designers had no way to manage what did come in, or ever close the loop on it.
So I built Hot Takes. Ship your build to your users and add one line of Swift (SPM, iOS 17+). Anyone reviewing it shakes the phone (or taps on a button), draws on the screenshot or records the screen and talks over it, then hits send. Everything lands in a web gallery for the project, auto-grouped by screen, tied to a real verified person. The designer filters by reviewer, tags what matters, and archives what’s handled. Feedback has a home again, and the loop actually closes.
The beta just opened and it’s free while it runs. Request an invite at https://www.hottakes.app/beta.
If you try it and it doesn’t fit how your team works, tell me exactly where it breaks.