What NextUI does

NextUI Inc., commercially operating as HeroUI, is an early-stage open-source software company that builds UI component libraries for React and React Native. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Boston, the company maintains a single integrated codebase that ships pre-built components (Dashboard, Mail, Chat, Finances templates, form elements, navigation, data display, feedback components) usable across web and mobile. The current release is HeroUI v3.2.1, with a theming system offering 27 color variants (default, sky, lavender, mint, netflix, black, spotify, coinbase, airbnb, discord, rabbit) designed for fast visual customization. Technical differentiators cited by the company include dual-platform support from a single codebase and production-ready defaults that minimize design-development friction.

The company's go-to-market is product-led growth through open-source distribution. The core library is published under the heroui-inc GitHub organization (27.7K stars), supported by a 97.1K-member Discord community, an active technical blog at heroui.com/blog, and a public Featurebase roadmap. Revenue is generated through a Pro tier sold via the heroui.pro storefront, offering premium templates (Dashboard, Mail, Chat, Finances) on a subscription basis, while the core library remains free and open source. The company participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch (YC S24) and raised approximately $300K from Epakon Capital in October 2023, with a follow-on participation from Pioneer Fund in June 2024. The team size is reported at 1–10 employees.

HeroUI serves a horizontal developer audience — web and mobile engineers, indie hackers, and design-system teams — building modern applications that require consistent UI across platforms. No enterprise logos, named accounts, or revenue figures are publicly disclosed, and the company does not list any AI/ML products, APIs, or proprietary models in its current offering. The primary persona is the individual developer or small-team consumer of the free library, with the Pro tier positioned as the conversion path for teams needing premium templates.

Name

NextUI

Legal name

NextUI Inc.

Website

https://nextui.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NextUI Inc. (HeroUI) is an open-source software company that builds React and React Native UI component libraries for web and mobile developers, monetizing via a Pro templates subscription at heroui.pro while distributing the core library free on GitHub.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

UI Component Library

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Build, CI/CD, Version Control & DevOps Tools for Games (MPAFAFAG)

Keywords

• UI component library
• React UI framework
• React Native components
• Design system tools
• Frontend development

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Pro Templates Subscription: Advanced and template-based components offered via heroui.pro with subscription pricing

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

NextUI (operating as HeroUI) develops and distributes an open-source UI component library for React and React Native, providing pre-built components, a theming system with 27+ color themes, and dual platform support from a single codebase. The company monetizes through HeroUI Pro Templates sold via subscription at heroui.pro, while the core library remains free on GitHub.

Product overview

HeroUI (formerly NextUI) is a comprehensive UI component library ecosystem consisting of core products for React and React Native, plus supplementary theme packs and professional templates. The core offering provides open-source UI components (27.7k GitHub stars) while the Pro tier adds premium templates. All products are designed to work together, enabling developers to build consistent user interfaces across web and mobile platforms with customizable theming capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HeroUI React The main open-source React UI component library for building web applications, featuring pre-built components such as Dashboard, Mail, Chat, and Finances templates. Targets software developers building modern web interfaces.
• HeroUI Native React Native version of the HeroUI library enabling consistent design across mobile applications from a single shared codebase with the web version.
• HeroUI Themes Pre-built theme packages offering multiple color variants (default, sky, lavender, mint, netflix, black, spotify, coinbase, airbnb, discord, rabbit) for instant visual customization of HeroUI components.
• HeroUI Pro Templates Premium template components available in the Pro tier including Dashboard, Mail, Chat, and Finances templates, sold via subscription at heroui.pro.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Material UI (MUI): The largest and most established React component library with a comprehensive theming system and commercial tier; competes directly with HeroUI for React UI component mindshare in production teams.
• Chakra UI: Open-source React component library emphasizing accessibility and composability; closely comparable to HeroUI in developer ergonomics, theming, and target audience of React developers.
• Headless UI: Unstyled, accessible React and Vue components from the Tailwind team; overlaps with HeroUI's component coverage and competes for the same accessibility-conscious developer audience.
• Tamagui: Cross-platform React and React Native UI kit with a theming and design-token system; the closest direct peer to HeroUI's React + React Native dual-platform positioning.
• Tailwind UI: Commercial template and component catalog from the makers of Tailwind CSS; directly comparable to HeroUI's paid Pro templates offering and competes for design-system spend.
• Radix UI: Headless React primitives that many modern libraries (including shadcn/ui) build on; competes with HeroUI at the foundational component layer for design-system builders.
• Ant Design: Massive enterprise-focused React UI library with a broad component set and design tokens; competes with HeroUI especially for dashboard and admin-style applications.
• shadcn/ui: Copy-paste React component library built on Radix and Tailwind; the most direct free competitor to HeroUI for modern React UI development and the benchmark many developers compare HeroUI against.
• Mantine: Open-source React component and hooks library with a strong theming story; targets the same persona as HeroUI and competes for adoption in modern web app projects.

Emerging players

• Park UI: Emerging open-source React component library built on Ark UI and Panda CSS with theme support; a smaller but directly comparable emerging alternative targeting the same developer persona as HeroUI.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/getnextui
• GitHubgithub.com/heroui-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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