Looks nice, like excalidraw fine tuned for wireframes. However, I'm on Linux so I'm not able to use the app.
love excalidraw btw
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
#92nice! Is it FOSS? Can I contribute to it?
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#93Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and a whiteboard in a meeting room and require to draw/erase fast iteratively... so it's the "right" tool for this job... But as soon as you use a computer instead of a pencil, why not have a "realistic" and "clean…
The reason that I've heard used repeatedly is that a shocking percentage of folks who aren't Technology producers can't separate visual quality from "doneness" of a project. If you show some business folks something that looks like it works, they'll mentally update the project to "Nearly done!" and then everything else after that becomes "Unreasonable delays."
I think Kathy Sierra used to wrote about this quite a bit. She's actually referenced by Balsamiq I think.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#94Looks nice! Maybe add some explanation about licensing on the first pages. And the name sounds like "butty" in Dutch, so that will be hard for me to recommend out loud for my Dutch IT students.
That's nothing. In certain English accents pronouncing "konty" is likely to cause even bigger, er, headaches than an innocent reference to a butty.
Sadly I came here to say this
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Balsamiq is a per month subscrtiption isn't it? Personally, I need a tool like this once per year or sometimes even less. So if Konty was a one off payment of $20-30 I'd be more inclined to purchase.
Balsamiq offers a desktop version with a one-time license fee at $149 per user https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/desktop/
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should consider a one time, lifetime payment. As a solo dev working on occasional side projects I just wouldn't even consider something on a subscription, and $140 (balsamiq's one time fee) is about $100 more than I'd pay. My alternative is a graphics app I already own. Follow what Affinity did (cheap and one-time) and you'll sell to a lot of people like me who would otherwise give it a miss. Save your subscripti…
IIRC, an age ago Balsamiq also offered one-time payments for lifetime desktop access.
it's still available https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/desktop/
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#97Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and a whiteboard in a meeting room and require to draw/erase fast iteratively... so it's the "right" tool for this job... But as soon as you use a computer instead of a pencil, why not have a "realistic" and "clean…
The reason that I've heard used repeatedly is that a shocking percentage of folks who aren't Technology producers can't separate visual quality from "doneness" of a project. If you show some business folks something that looks like it works, they'll mentally update the project to "Nearly done!" and then everything else after that becomes "Unreasonable delays."
I presented a wireframe to a curator at The Science Museum once years ago - even after lots of "please bear in mind this is just a prototype" type disclaimers, his first response was "surely it'll have more colour and pictures than this?".
So. Yeh.
Re: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps
#98Opening this up and being greeted with the main interface and not a login window or onboarding hit like a sip of Sprite after a year in the desert