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

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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.

I'm the same - I'd pay $30/40 for a single one, but yearly cost of $99 is too much

Can you please clarify what you mean by "single one"? You'd pay $30/40 for how many pages of one site?

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

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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

Good point. I'll definitely give it for people to try in the next couple weeks.

Eh, if anything maybe invite one or two people for usability testing. Otherwise, having that many data points this early on might hurt your business.

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

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Surprised it’s Vue and not React. Vue is great, but there’s a lot of activity in the Sketch React space, for example AirBnb’s Lona [0]. This could fit in nicely. [0] https://github.com/airbnb/Lona

We are part of its community for years. It's always good to start with tools you master. React is definitely on our roadmap. Are you more of a Vue or React dev?

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

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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…

What stack did you use?

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

#26

This is very interesting. I love the approach to the problem that you are trying to solve. However, there are few questions that I will try to answer with respective to the product. Q. Will I pay to use your problem? A. Probably not, with the current version Q. What problems I see with the platform? A. I seriously don't know how you'd proceed forward with the platform. If it would only be used for creating static web…

Let me turn back some questions to you: 1. What's not enough in this current version for you to pay? What would make you be able to pay? 2. Do you have this problem recurrently? i.e. going from design to code.

It would be interesting to see the quality of the code. Way back in the 90s Macromedia had a product called Fireworks, which Adobe subsequently bought (along with Flash, Dreamweaver etc.). It could turn designs into HTML+CSS but the code was horrible and no-one used it professionally.

I know we are decades past that, and the machine learning algos may do a better job but without seeing some code examples it has limited appeal to me.

I don't really know the kind of person that has to turn around so many websites that the boilerplating exercise is a big enough problem to pay to solve. I can see the appeal to people who have no experience building websites and a company like Wix might be interested in the tech. But professionals who need a monthly subscription has to be a tiny niche.

Impressive all the same though, what you have learned in doing this will lead to other great things I am sure.

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

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This looks promising, however, I'm not sure about the pricing model, $99 per month (IF billed annually) for 10 designs (10 artboards)?

Yes, one artboard usually correspond to one webpage. How much were you willing to pay? Is this a problem you have every week?

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

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Let me turn back some questions to you: 1. What's not enough in this current version for you to pay? What would make you be able to pay? 2. Do you have this problem recurrently? i.e. going from design to code.

It would be interesting to see the quality of the code. Way back in the 90s Macromedia had a product called Fireworks, which Adobe subsequently bought (along with Flash, Dreamweaver etc.). It could turn designs into HTML+CSS but the code was horrible and no-one used it professionally. I know we are decades past that, and the machine learning algos may do a better job but without seeing some code examples it has limit…

Thanks so much for your words. Happy to share our demo code, would love your feedback. If you think it makes sense, drop me a line at john [@] zecoda.com

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the same - I'd pay $30/40 for a single one, but yearly cost of $99 is too much

Can you please clarify what you mean by "single one"? You'd pay $30/40 for how many pages of one site?

As in using it a single time - I guess maybe at most 2/3 pages from one design?
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