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Heroicons vs shadcn/ui

Side-by-side comparison of two indie startups from the Startup Spotlight directory.

Option A
Heroicons

Heroicons

Developer Tools

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

Heroicons is a free SVG icon set by Steve Schoger and the Tailwind Labs team — the default icon set for thousands of Tailwind sites.

Founder
Steve Schoger
Founded
2020
Team
11-50
Listing
Free (nofollow)
Listed
May 2026
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Option B
shadcn/ui

shadcn/ui

Developer Tools

Beautifully designed components you can copy and paste.

shadcn/ui is a collection of re-usable, accessible React components built on Radix UI and Tailwind CSS — the most popular component library on GitHub.

Founder
shadcn
Founded
2023
Team
1-10
Listing
Free (nofollow)
Listed
May 2026
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