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Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by TSR830-10Q »

coderdude wrote: post #16
sgdesign wrote: post #14

Looks great! I'd be curious to know how it compares to Divshot ( http://divshot.com )?

Looks like there are now three serious competitors in this space: - Jetstrap ( http://jetstrap.com/ ) - Divshot ( http://divshot.com/ ) - Easel ( https://www.easel.io/ ) I could see a company like Adobe wanting to get in on this.

I've been using Jetstrap and Divshot for 2 weeks on a small project. Of the two so far, I've found Divshot has more features and ease of use, yet Jetstrap is very good in its own right. I want to try Easel and I signed up, but the site seemed to be overwhelmed (by Show HN?) and it failed to load for me.

Surely we want competitors in this area, there's obviously a need for it and a number of tools competing on features and price can be good for consumers?

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by yesimahuman »

TSR830-10Q wrote: post #31
coderdude wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like there are now three serious competitors in this space: - Jetstrap ( http://jetstrap.com/ ) - Divshot ( http://divshot.com/ ) - Easel ( https://www.easel.io/ ) I could see a company like Adobe wanting to get in on this.

I've been using Jetstrap and Divshot for 2 weeks on a small project. Of the two so far, I've found Divshot has more features and ease of use, yet Jetstrap is very good in its own right. I want to try Easel and I signed up, but the site seemed to be overwhelmed (by Show HN?) and it failed to load for me. Surely we want competitors in this area, there's obviously a need for it and a number of tools competing on feature…

Thanks, I built Jetstrap :)

To answer the parent, Adobe technically does have a competitor in this space, though it's not focused on bootstrap and it's kind of complicated: http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/

As someone with a product in this space, I'm confident each of the current offerings listed above will diverge sufficiently in the future, specifically in their target audience. It's still so early though.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by wilfra »

sgdesign wrote: post #14

Looks great! I'd be curious to know how it compares to Divshot ( http://divshot.com )?

This is the first one, to my knowledge, that offers styling. You can drag and drop elements easily with divshot and jetstrap but if you want to change the colors and fonts etc, you can't.

I'm stoked to try this out!

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by alexanderh »

OriginalSyn wrote: post #5

Unfortunate naming collision, For far too long I was wondering where EaselJS[1] came into the picture. http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS

Came here to say this. At least its not another competing javascript framework, but a full blown web-tool.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by mrbogle »

TSR830-10Q wrote: post #31
coderdude wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like there are now three serious competitors in this space: - Jetstrap ( http://jetstrap.com/ ) - Divshot ( http://divshot.com/ ) - Easel ( https://www.easel.io/ ) I could see a company like Adobe wanting to get in on this.

I've been using Jetstrap and Divshot for 2 weeks on a small project. Of the two so far, I've found Divshot has more features and ease of use, yet Jetstrap is very good in its own right. I want to try Easel and I signed up, but the site seemed to be overwhelmed (by Show HN?) and it failed to load for me. Surely we want competitors in this area, there's obviously a need for it and a number of tools competing on feature…

Sorry about your demo document on signup not loading. All should be fixed now.

And Max (yesimhuman) is right: it's pretty early, and we're all approaching the problem from different perspectives.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by aviswanathan »

Very cool stuff. Something that immediately comes to mind is if this can be done in an even more inclusive way (not necessarily dependent on Twitter Bootstrap). I.e. if there is a WYSIWYG kind of way to create divs, containers, and easily drop elements into them.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#37

Post by aviswanathan »

Very cool stuff. Something that immediately comes to mind is if this can be done in an even more inclusive way (not necessarily dependent on Twitter Bootstrap). I.e. if there is a WYSIWYG kind of way to create divs, containers, and easily drop elements into them.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

#38

Post by aviswanathan »

Very cool stuff. Something that immediately comes to mind is if this can be done in an even more inclusive way (not necessarily dependent on Twitter Bootstrap). I.e. if there is a WYSIWYG kind of way to create divs, containers, and easily drop elements into them.

Re: Show HN: Use Easel to style and build Bootstrap interfaces

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Post by mrbogle »

sgdesign wrote: post #14

Looks great! I'd be curious to know how it compares to Divshot ( http://divshot.com )?

To answer the original question, we offer 2 things beyond the competitors:

More flexibility: You can style elements, and you dont need to use the bootstrap containers (or bootstrap) if you dont want to. This is cool as we've been able to design all of easel inside of easel itself.

Collaboration: A very central part of the design process. You can share designs with your team, create clickable prototypes to test your ideas, and everyone invited can leave comments.

Our goal is to make easel awesome for all your web work in a professional team setting.

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