Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app
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Figma has acquired the Bud team, a vibe-coding platform, to enhance its design capabilities with AI and coding tools.
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Figma has acquired the Bud team, a vibe-coding platform, to enhance its design capabilities with AI and coding tools. This move aims to integrate app building and prototyping more closely with Figma's design canvas, shutting down Bud and Orchids by July 18, 2026.
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- Figma aims to integrate coding and prototyping into its design platform.
- Bud, previously Orchids, allowed users to create apps across various platforms.
- The acquisition will require users to migrate their projects by July 18, 2026.
- Figma has launched tools like Figma Make and integrated with Codex and Claude Code.
- Bud's shutdown follows security concerns regarding its previous platform.
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Figma is trying to become more than a design platform by adding more AI and bringing the coding and prototyping layer closer to its canvas. Toward that end, it has acquired the team behind the vibe-coding and AI agent platform Bud (formerly Orchids).
“Figma is one of, if not the, defining product companies of our time to capitalize on this. It’s where ideas start, iterate, and come to life, and a natural home for this exciting new era of work,” Bud’s CEO Kevin Lu posted on X.
The Y Combinator-backed startup began as a vibe-coding platform letting users spin up apps for mobile, web, Slack, browser, and more. It later rebranded as Bud, an agent platform that can access various services, browse the web, and write code to automate tasks.
Under the deal, the startup will shut down both Bud and Orchids by July 18, requiring users to migrate their projects by then.
Earlier this year, citing a security researcher, the BBC reported that apps created on Orchids were susceptible to cyberattacks.
Figma didn’t specify how it aims to use this team, but recent product launches hint that the public company wants to give teams more tools for building and prototyping apps, not just ideating over static concepts. Last year, it released Figma Make for creating web apps. This year, it integrated with tools like Codex and Claude Code, and rolled out its own agents.
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