Introducing Bootstrap Studio • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#91

Post by teleclimber » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

bpatrianakos wrote: post #90

Is there a big market for WYSIWYG apps for developers? I think this is a great application but might it be better targeted toward non-technical people? Remember iWeb? This reminds me of a more developer-centric, flexible version of that. But no developer would actually build with it. It was for the people who now use Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace for their websites. Developers should be able to put together a Bootstra…

There is a whole spectrum of people who work "on the web" in some form or another: hard-core developers, front-end coders, designers, small business owners, content creators, etc... So any tool from Squarespace to BootstrapStudio to Emacs is potentially useful to a subset of the market.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#92

Post by josteink » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

If you put something, anything on the public web, you have no excuse for it not working in all modern, standards compliant browsers.

I mean... would you be happy to rate yourself a IE6-level dev? Because that's where a performance like this puts you. I would consider it pretty embarrassing.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#93

Post by bighands » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:05 PM UTC

I just bought this software and noticed that there is a standard "I agree to the terms and conditions" tickbox.

I read the terms and conditions and noted with some unease para 1.7:

"Customer may supply to Zine EOOD or allow Zine EOOD to use certain proprietary information, including service marks, logos, graphics, software, documents and business information and plans that have been authored or pre-owned by Customer. All such intellectual property shall remain the exclusive property of Customer and shall not be used by Zine EOOD for any purposes other than that under which the property was provided."

What on earth does that paragraph mean? I permit Zine EOOD to what information, exactly? And when does Zine EOOD imagine that I will supply that information to them?

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#94

Post by nevir » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

It looks really interesting

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But:

"Bootstrap Studio is a desktop application filled with powerful features."

That line tells me absolutely nothing about it

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#95

Post by johnjackamend » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:35 PM UTC

Looks like a watered down Webflow

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#96

Post by johnjackamend » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

sam_goody wrote: post #51

I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage. But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects. Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?

https://www.inkbrush.com/ my bruv

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

#97

Post by Schrum » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:38 PM UTC

RobbyMcCullough wrote: post #85

Wow this is gorgeous! Nice work. I have a product in a similar space, Beaver Builder ( https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com ). A few differences being that it's an in-browser tool and it's a WordPress plugin. Who is your target customer? Are you hoping to improve workflows for frontend developers or enable non-developers to build web pages? Also, what are your thoughts on maintaining a Bootstrap Studio site? FWIW, we hit…

Sorry to go off topic, but i've been interested in your product for a couple of weeks. I recently created a site for young people interested in horses. I built it with a theme called KLEO that included Visual Composer. VC is having insane load times, partially because of admin-ajax.php. Does BeaverBuilder also make use of admin-ajax.php? Visual Composer is clearly too heavy and unoptimised for us, so i'd be more than likely to go with BeaverBuilder.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by jorgecurio » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:40 PM UTC

wtf...I just played with Pingendo and refreshed the page to find another one.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by danneu » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #92

If you put something, anything on the public web, you have no excuse for it not working in all modern, standards compliant browsers. I mean... would you be happy to rate yourself a IE6-level dev? Because that's where a performance like this puts you. I would consider it pretty embarrassing.

Maybe you can email them and volunteer your personal free time to improve their free tool.

I have a free service in production that insufferably lags only on Android devices when typing into the textarea. I looked into it a couple times in my free time but couldn't figure it out. It's not embarrassing, it's free.

Re: Introducing Bootstrap Studio

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Post by jorgecurio » Sun, Jan 31, 2016, 8:16 PM UTC

bought it a short while ago

please tell me there's a code you are using for that wonderful checkout. email-->entering postal code --> entering card --> done.

any reason why you are capturing postal code first?

I will post another comment with a review later

is this built using electron? where can you find a boiler template project complete with installation wizard?

edit: just realized you can't even import HTML files or I'm dumb. I clicked open but it only lets you select some proprietary file. This is a HUGE MINUS because I was looking forward to editing existing bootstrap template and you can't!