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

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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?

Ok, cool. In fact you are right in our price point of $9 per artboard. The only think we need to evaluate is the one-off possibility which I'm sure we can try.

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

#32

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 think with a one off it’s better just to outsource it. But the benefit of the automatic approach is that you could iterate a design over the course of a few weeks, getting quick turn around on each tweak.

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

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Can you elaborate on what you mean by round-tripping please?

I assume they mean from web back to sketch.

Meaning going from front-end code to Sketch, right? Is this something you need?

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

It's actually $99/month if paid yearly.

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

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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.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by round-tripping please?

I suppose most website html templates are later filled with code ( php, js, whatever). Then design change, you don’t want to restart inserting php code all over again.

At least that was one issue i thought about reading OP.

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

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This is really cool, it is really hard to evaluate the value of Zencoda without the code output of the demo. I get that the full product is not ready but being able to see the input and one good output would tell us a lot.

Thanks! 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

#40

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…

It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. I want to change that.

So I tried to automate this process.

The reason for all the meetings and questions is that the designs you're working from are ambiguous, and you don't really have enough information to turn the design files in to working code. I can't quite see how a deep learning model solves that problem. By the sounds of it you've automated turning the original, ambiguous, wrong designs the you have at the start in to code and tried to remove the discussion process that takes those files and turns them in to the right solution to the customer's problem. This is not going to lead to better front end code.

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