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Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by urda » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:14 AM UTC

fnando wrote: post #23

> Sorry, our editor is optimized for Chrome Internet Explorer all over again. ‍️

Yup and closed tab. Either make your product work in the major browsers or don't make it at all. Not acceptable here.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by jpochtar » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:16 AM UTC

jakecrouch wrote: post #89

Tough question: How will this get distribution? How would I find out about it without reading Hacker News?

Sign up and tell your friends about it! We'll email you product updates :)

We haven't thought too far beyond HN + word of mouth. How would you do distribution?

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by jpochtar » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:21 AM UTC

ylem wrote: post #88

This looks cool! Have you thought about pricing yet?

Thanks! We'll always be free for students and for making projects that are open source, and we'll have a subscription plan for teams at companies.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by ggg9990 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:27 AM UTC

kakarot wrote: post #79

ggg9990 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’re right, it’s not a web app. It is a stand-alone application built on top of Chrome the way that other apps are built on Qt or WPF.

Right, and I'm saying I fundamentally disagree with this vendor-locking approach. Qt doesn't lock me into a particular environment and is cross-platform. It's a view framework, not an entire browser. Huge difference.

If your product is useful enough people will install what they need to, like Photoshop and Excel.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by andrewstuart » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:41 AM UTC

urda wrote: post #91

fnando wrote: post #23

> Sorry, our editor is optimized for Chrome Internet Explorer all over again. ‍️

Yup and closed tab. Either make your product work in the major browsers or don't make it at all. Not acceptable here.

>> Either make your product work in the major browsers or don't make it at all. Not acceptable here.

I don't agree. Especially for a startup trying to get an MVP out the door.

If your product is aimed at a technically oriented audience then its a reasonable assumption that they have Chrome installed.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by zackbrown » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 4:01 AM UTC

redindian75 wrote: post #78

As a UI/UX guy, ReactJS/JSX is a very high bar for us to cross. I have tonnes of Sketch/Figma files ready to be wired, as a JS newbie, JSX is too complicated for a Designer mind to understand :-) Any hopes for a beginner friendly language like VueJS or Webcomponents (AMP Pages/Polymer). The tool has great potential, if u can address the UX market than the dev market. Devs have many many tools they wont give up, but w…

Since you like the idea of wiring Sketch designs with logic, but you want a solution created for a UX designer, it sounds like you'd like Haiku. We're in the same YC batch as Pagedraw. https://www.haiku.ai/

Haiku focuses on connecting UX designers with developers through shared version histories (git & npm), on a foundation of animated & interactive code components. Haiku supports Vue, plus React, native iOS and native Android.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by paul7986 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 4:02 AM UTC

I design in code ... grab a bootstrap template and quickly design/code in the browser via Inspect element; save it as I go along.

What are front end devs so busy with nowadays that they dont have the time to code the UI?

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by spraak » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 4:23 AM UTC

paul7986 wrote: post #97

I design in code ... grab a bootstrap template and quickly design/code in the browser via Inspect element; save it as I go along. What are front end devs so busy with nowadays that they dont have the time to code the UI?

Probably meant for designers, not so much devs.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by jpochtar » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 4:33 AM UTC

spraak wrote: post #98

paul7986 wrote: post #97

I design in code ... grab a bootstrap template and quickly design/code in the browser via Inspect element; save it as I go along. What are front end devs so busy with nowadays that they dont have the time to code the UI?

Probably meant for designers, not so much devs.

It's best for developers working together with designers. If you're a solo designer, you don't need to push an app to production (or I'd consider you a developer), so you're probably perfectly happy staying in Sketch or Figma. As a developer, I really don't like having to translate my designers' work into JSX and CSS, so Pagedraw can do it for me!

If you're doing both the code and the design, and you like to design via the inspect element tab, then Pagedraw may not be for you.

Re: Launch HN: Pagedraw (YC W18) – Compile UI Mockups to React Code

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Post by acemarke » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 5:06 AM UTC

redindian75 wrote: post #78

As a UI/UX guy, ReactJS/JSX is a very high bar for us to cross. I have tonnes of Sketch/Figma files ready to be wired, as a JS newbie, JSX is too complicated for a Designer mind to understand :-) Any hopes for a beginner friendly language like VueJS or Webcomponents (AMP Pages/Polymer). The tool has great potential, if u can address the UX market than the dev market. Devs have many many tools they wont give up, but w…

As someone who spends a lot of time helping answer questions about using React: what aspects of React and JSX do you consider to be a "high bar"? What concerns about React cause you to say it's not "beginner friendly" ?