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Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by niklauslee »

8mobile wrote: post #18

Hi, Balsamiq is one of my favorite products, I have already downloaded konty and I stress it a lot. Congratulations for the idea and for the product, how did you come up with it? After the beta will it be paid? I will give you some feedback soon. Thanks

Thank you for your feedback. I'm thinking of the paid version. I would like to offer it much cheaper than balsamiq, probably. Additionally, we'll be offering strong discounts for early users.

Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by niklauslee »

nreece wrote: post #19

Looks good! I wonder if there's a way to combine a simple tool like yours (or Balsamiq, which I've used for many years) with generative AI to create plain HTML/CSS pages from mockups/wireframes. Figma seems bloated, v0 is React/Tailwind only.

Yes, we are thinking about integrating with AI!

Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by tyrw »

niklauslee wrote: post #41
8mobile wrote: post #18

Hi, Balsamiq is one of my favorite products, I have already downloaded konty and I stress it a lot. Congratulations for the idea and for the product, how did you come up with it? After the beta will it be paid? I will give you some feedback soon. Thanks

Thank you for your feedback. I'm thinking of the paid version. I would like to offer it much cheaper than balsamiq, probably. Additionally, we'll be offering strong discounts for early users.

Balsamiq is already so cheap. We use it for our business and every time it renews I just think they could be getting 5-10x what they are. That in turn helps drive a better business and product.

Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by niklauslee »

equalsabhi wrote: post #3

Is this a free to use tool? I was thinking about whether the GTM should be a figma plugin vs. a desktop app. Would love to know the founder's thought process on choosing the desktop app route.

For the future, we're looking at web-based version with real-time collaboration. But for now, we decided to start with desktop. We were also influenced by the "file over app" philosophy of Obsidian's founder: https://stephango.com/file-over-app.

Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by niklauslee »

berkes wrote: post #40
porl wrote: post #17

No Linux support :'(

I don't understand these decisions. This is a collaborative tool. So you cannot say "only 5% of the audience is Linux users", but instead you'll rule out any team where at least one member is Linux user. Which is a far larger group. If I discount myself, that's 8 of 9 teams and startups I worked in last years where we needed wireframing. But I hope the Konty team has better numbers on this. I presume they know more t…

Yes, we'll also consider Linux distributions.

Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

juliushuijnk wrote: post #37

If you want to do this kind of thing on your phone, you can try my TinyUx: https://www.tinyux.app/ It has a non-standard UX itself, because of the small screen.

So cool!

Do you have an iOS version?

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