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Love your landing page! What did you build the animation at the top of your page with?
Pretty cool! I recently came across WeWeb (weweb.io) which also allows for exporting code, and is quite feature rich in its visual editor
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No plans for now, this seems to be the best form to support the features we need. It was initially a Chrome extension [1] but there were limitations with local file access and UX from jumping around to multiple pages. Very early on I developed this as a web app but it was also difficult to inject styles into iframe, especially for ones that we didn't own directly. Electron ships Chromium by default so it was easy to…
I'm curious about the chrome extension issues as I'm wondering about creating a project using it, with all the problems it brings with marketing. What does `UX from jumping around to multiple pages` mean?
There's also the platform risk with Chrome Web Store being poorly supported. I've had important updates take up to a week to come out for no transparent reason.
It might just be a UX we have not cracked but it was easy to onboard, hard to stick. It is also unceremoniously open-sourced so if you want to take up the code I'm happy to support that.
https://youtu.be/pUzCOpIE1zQ?feature=shared
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/onlook/icbcddooibfg...
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> 1. Are you planning to monetize? If so, what are some of your ideas? Yes, though my plan is not concrete, yet. I plan to offer a hosted version for teams with fewer technical members to be able to contribute the same way a front-end engineer would without self-hosting. This involves potentially hosting their app along-side the editor and creating friendlier abstractions on top of the git process such as creating br…
Nice, thank you! Yeah monetization is always tough, especially with something like this. My thoughts (were I in your position) would be to offer a full/unrestricted and open source single-player mode (open core model, with core licensed AGPLv3) that just modifies files on disk and is otherwise completely ignorant of git or anything else. Then for paid/hosted version, on top of it being hosted, you get full integratio…
That's my impression too. Designers I know do not want to deal with the command line or git directly. I can't think of any products where that abstraction is done well (unless it's so good that I didn't notice).
Thank you for the very in-depth take. We're figuring out monetization so this is very actionable + relevant.
If you use Bootstrap and are more towards "static" websites, I recommend Bootstrap Studio ( https://bootstrapstudio.io/ ). I used it on and off. Last time, I used it to make one-off HTML, then edit the rest by hand (meaning, I can't return to the app again to make changes). But recently, I used it to develop https://momenial.com/ with 100% editing in the app. Meaning I can use the app to make changes. I _do_ still ne…
This looks cool. I always thought that Webflow's model for how to snap together a UI was a good intersection of pick-up-and-play simplicity and just enough customizability under the hood. But they're a bit expensive, and I hated having my projects under their control. I hope this project continues to grow by leaps and bounds!
This is my biggest objection as well. Along with not having my code locally.
> I hope this project continues to grow by leaps and bounds!
Thank you for the kind words!
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> If I'm a non-technical user then I have no idea how to host this thing myself and will just go to a competitor. This is a good suggestion. My plan is: 1. We start with packaging the Electron app as a downloadable. You'll still have to run your localhost app with it. 2. Then we'll add some UI support for cloning and running your project directly from the app. 3. The last step is to provide hosting for your app but I…
Since you mentioned cloning, feel free to hack on this https://github.com/beenotung/web-clone
Sorry for off-loading the research to you but how does it compare to SingleFile (Chrome extension based)? I can't tell what the output would be.
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> I only saw install instructions for NPM so maybe it just needs built executables Sorry for the confusion, this is an Electron app. I just didn't ship an executable with it at the moment. > I could see an easy integration to push your page up to a CDN or GH Pages instance. That is certainly in the cards. Though, in my opinion, it becomes more useful to edit complex web application since there are many tools supporti…
I'm in a rather odd demographic: I've got about a decade of experience as a developer (as a paid full-time dev working on some FOSS projects) but recently switched careers to design. The design and dev mindsets are definitely different. I obviously prefer tweaking things in code, but designing a layout is fundamentally a visual communication task, so working visually is preferable. I've just started working on a new…
Someone above suggested https://bootstrapstudio.io/ which seems to fit the static page use case very well.
> it was usually ruined by a project manager or a developer trying to make something 'look designed' by mimicking some simple, elegant design they saw that was totally inappropriate for the application.
This hits home for me as someone who ruins design to ship faster. I think dev being the gatekeeper for UI can turn out badly when we start cutting corners or inserting our own opinions into the implementation.
I hope giving designers the ability to contribute on the UI side can alleviate this issue.