Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

Post by johndamaia » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

nkozyra wrote: post #3

johndamaia wrote: post #2

Founder here. As a front end developer, I turn design files into front-end code regularly. But it's a repetitive and demotivating task. It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. I want to change that. So I tried to automate this process. I trained a deep learning (DL) model to visually understand what elements are in a webpage (e.g. input, button, nav, etc) and build the front-end boiler pl…

Interested to see this. I've done something similar in the past (building models that translated paper drawings into HTML+css) and ultimately found it usually didn't save me much time. Translating a look into code is much less labor intensive than it once was and code reuse and stylesheet preprocessers and the ilk (webpack, etc) save tons of time. I'd get something reasonable out of the model but then the actual look…

Post by johndamaia » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #9

I built a thing like thi, and went quite a long way down the commercialization path. The problem is that round-tripping is what almost everyone wants, and it's really hard to get to work.

Post by acallaghan » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 1:07 PM UTC

gotrythis wrote: post #8

Hi. Wish you had one-off pricing. I'm sure there are agencies that do that kind of volume. I would love to use your service a few times a year.

Post by johndamaia » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 1:13 PM UTC

diggan wrote: post #5

From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. This should not be a Show HN as there is nothing to try out, just a video + early access list that currently doesn't give you access.

Post by johndamaia » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 1:18 PM UTC

mkagenius wrote: post #10

johndamaia wrote: post #2

Founder here. As a front end developer, I turn design files into front-end code regularly. But it's a repetitive and demotivating task. It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. I want to change that. So I tried to automate this process. I trained a deep learning (DL) model to visually understand what elements are in a webpage (e.g. input, button, nav, etc) and build the front-end boiler pl…

Hey, why not give something for people to try. I know[1] it takes (GPU) resources and may give it a hug of death but its much better to let at least some people try it out and give this a feedback while its hot. People may lose interest later on, who knows. 1. Something I made and let people use but nobody uses: https://comic2gif.com