We run an IT services company plus we build our own SaaS products, so frontend work never stops for us. Before this, our devs were building the same hero sections, pricing tables and dashboard layouts again and again for every client project.
shadcn studio fixed that. The blocks are copy paste ready and they actually look good out of the box. My team mostly uses the marketing blocks and dashboard blocks. The CLI install works clean with our Next.js setup, no weird dependencies pulled in.
Two things I personally like most. First, you own the code. It sits in your repo like you wrote it, so no vendor lock worry when we hand over projects to clients. Second, the theme generator. We match client brand colors in minutes instead of a designer going back and forth for days.
The MCP server support was a nice surprise. Our devs use it inside Cursor and it pulls the right blocks while they work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
A few honest points. Some block categories still feel thin, like datatables and bento grids have less variety compared to marketing blocks. We had to customize more there.
The free tier is quite limited, so trying things properly before paying is a bit hard. Also docs are good for setup but could use more real examples for editing blocks deeply, like changing layout structure, not just colors.
I'm sure they will fix this in next version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.