Cue

Cue is an Awwwards-tier UI component library for anyone building to stand out. It gathers best-in-class components from across the internet and curates them by hand, offering bold hero sections, smooth interactions, unique layouts and thoughtful micro-animations that help teams ship websites that do not just work but stand out. Cue is made not only for AI builders but also for designers, developers, agencies, solo makers and product teams who refuse to ship generic-looking work. It describes itself simply as the taste layer on top of the tools people already use, and today every component ships with an AI prompt so users can recreate what they see inside their own projects. The starting point for Cue is a familiar frustration: most component libraries, template packs and AI-generated interfaces look interchangeable, and shipping something distinctive usually means hours of reverse-engineering interactions spotted on award-winning sites. Cue approaches that problem from the opposite direction. Rather than generating components to fill a grid, the library is assembled from hand-picked references, sourced from an Awwwards Site of the Day, a Behance-featured interaction, or a production output the founder considered best-of-class. The editorial section describes the collection as the best web interactions from Awwwards, CollectUI and X, delivered together with the code and prompt needed to recreate them in your own project. The stated bar is taste, not volume: if a user finds a better reference for the same component, the founder replaces the existing item, so the catalogue keeps improving instead of merely growing. The library itself is organised around the building blocks of a high-end marketing site. Cue lists bold hero sections, smooth interactions, unique layouts and micro-animations, and the site exposes tags for sections and interactions alongside filters for new versus old entries. At the time of writing the library advertises 75+ components with daily drops, so the collection is presented as a growing, frequently refreshed catalogue rather than a fixed download. A dedicated Editorial stream highlights a new drop each day. An email signup lets visitors be notified when new components ship, described as no spam and unsubscribe anytime, and the founder states that every drop is hand-picked personally. What makes Cue unusual among reference galleries is that every component ships with an AI prompt. Those prompts are designed to be dropped straight into Bolt, v0, Cursor, Framer AI, ChatGPT or Claude, so instead of studying a screenshot and rebuilding an animation by hand, a user can hand the prompt to the AI tool they already work in and adapt the result to their own project. The free tier of Cue allows visitors to browse the whole library and copy two AI prompts every 24 hours, which lets people test the workflow before committing. Because the prompt travels with the component reference, the interaction and the implementation guidance stay together. Beyond prompts, Cue states that React source code and an MCP server are actively rolling out. The MCP server is described as giving native access from Cursor, Claude Desktop, or any MCP-aware AI tool, which means an assistant can reach the component library directly rather than relying on copy and paste. React source code targets the developers who want the underlying implementation rather than only a description. Together these additions move Cue from a browsable gallery toward a resource that plugs into the toolchain of AI-assisted development. Cue's positioning is deliberately narrow. It does not host projects, deploy code, or run an AI model of its own; it is the taste layer sitting on top of the tools people already use. It also states plainly what it is not: not a template pack, not a subscription, not a course, not an AI wrapper, and not a marketplace. Curation is done by founder Alok, a founder-designer who hand-picks every drop and describes the work as building the taste layer for AI components. Because access is offered as a one-time lifetime payment rather than a recurring fee, the emphasis stays on singular, vetted references instead of a constantly billed content feed. The promised outcome is straightforward: build less and create more. Teams that struggle to produce distinctive interfaces get a shortcut to the interactions and layouts that define award-winning sites, without spending days dissecting how they were built. Designers gain a curated reference library that reflects a single, consistent point of view rather than an unfiltered dump of community uploads. Developers get prompts and, as they roll out, React source and MCP access, which shortens the distance between seeing an interaction and shipping it. AI builders get a way to raise the visual quality of what their assistants generate. For solo makers and agencies, the appeal is the same: differentiate visually while keeping the existing toolchain. Concrete uses follow from the components on offer. A designer putting together a portfolio can browse hero sections and unique layouts for a starting point rather than a blank canvas. A developer building a landing page in React can copy a prompt, paste it into Cursor or v0, and adapt a micro-animation that would otherwise take hours to recreate. An agency can use Cue as a reference source when pitching or producing client work that needs to look handcrafted. A solo maker launching a product can pull in an interaction that lifts the site above a default template. Teams working inside Claude Desktop or another MCP-aware client can eventually reach the library natively. Community activity is part of the workflow too: a Discord invitation lets members pick the next drop, and the founder is directly reachable for questions or for hire. Cue is aimed at designers, developers, agencies, solo makers and product teams, as well as AI builders, who refuse to ship generic-looking work. Pricing is structured as a free tier plus one-time lifetime access. Free browsing includes the full library with two AI-prompt copies per 24 hours. Cue+ Founding Lifetime is USD $99 as a one-time payment, capped at the first 50 members. Cue+ Lifetime at the standard rate is USD $249 one-time after the founding tier sells out. Promotional pricing has been offered at $79 lifetime, and the site also mentions custom pricing where you pay only for the components you pick. Technically, Cue centres on AI prompts for Bolt, v0, Cursor, Framer AI, ChatGPT and Claude, with React source code and an MCP server rolling out. The takeaway is that Cue sells taste rather than volume. By hand-picking Awwwards-tier components and pairing each one with an AI prompt, and soon React source code and MCP access, it gives designers, developers and AI builders a faster route to interfaces that stand out, while staying a layer on top of the tools they already use.