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Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by sgdesign »

drharris wrote: post #10

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where…

I'd be very curious to see what kind of custom theme you can get for a couple dollars...

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

#12

Post by sgdesign »

nicholassmith wrote: post #7

I'm honestly surprised we've not seen more of these. Bootstrap is great, it's a good set of nice tools to get you going and then a truly creative designer can take it where it needs to go. Look forward to seeing more themes appear!

I think the reason there aren't more themes is the sheer quantity of work involved in styling all the bootstrap elements.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by drharris »

sgdesign wrote: post #11
drharris wrote: post #10

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where…

I'd be very curious to see what kind of custom theme you can get for a couple dollars...

For a couple dollars? Probably nothing at all. I've been outsourcing custom bootstrap themes similar to this (perhaps slightly less polished, but completely custom to the product) for around $400-500 for 4-5 different page styles and all elements (tables, forms, jquery widgets). Some are even partially responsive.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

#14

Post by macournoyer »

drharris wrote: post #10

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where…

Creator of Dresssed here.

You can get much cheaper themes specifically for Bootstrap here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/.

But what I've noticed is that every theme based on Bootstrap is incomplete. Focus of my themes is to provide everything you need to build an app. Re-branding every component was a lot of work and trying to make them not look like Bootstrap was even more work.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by tucson »

drharris wrote: post #10

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where…

"I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where a few easy parameters (so easy your grandma can do it!)"

Absolutely agree. I have customers but don't have the skills to automate website creations. We need this gap bridged.

Give me an API to build a website based on simple parameters: [ domain name, title, presentation text ]. (for example)

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by tucson »

macournoyer wrote: post #14
drharris wrote: post #10

Definitely beautiful, but the price point seems a bit strange. It definitely surpasses ThemeForest territory, but it's still built on an existing framework and has that "cookie-cutter" vibe to it. Considering a few hundred more bucks will get you a completely custom Bootstrap theme on oDesk, I wonder about the target demographic for something like this. I think the killer app for this will be a bootstrap theme where…

Creator of Dresssed here. You can get much cheaper themes specifically for Bootstrap here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ . But what I've noticed is that every theme based on Bootstrap is incomplete. Focus of my themes is to provide everything you need to build an app. Re-branding every component was a lot of work and trying to make them not look like Bootstrap was even more work.

I applaud your service, but as a potential customer, I need something easier to use to provide websites on demand. Just thought this could be interesting for you to know.

I have more than 500 hits per month, all small businesses who want to create a "website". For many a simple bootstrap theme would do... with very little parametrization.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by ericingram »

Very nice looking theme, and a good idea.

It makes me think though, so much effort lately is going into "dressing" UI and very little attention seems to be paid to improving UI structure. The old list - page hop - view pattern is feeling pretty out dated. Oh well.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by benjaminwootton »

Is this sort of stuff turning application development into a commodity?

You can spin up a Rails app, Bootstrap it, and them theme it off the shelf with about 30 minutes work nowadays. 10 minutes later you can have it running on a PAAS such as Heroku.

Each of those jobs would have taken a number of different specialists many days in development, design, and sys admin work just a few years ago.

The average simple CRUD SAAS app that is presented here is such a low barrier to entry and becoming increasingly so.

Re: Dresssed: Beautiful Themes built on bootstrap for your Rails App

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Post by macournoyer »

tucson wrote: post #16
macournoyer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Creator of Dresssed here. You can get much cheaper themes specifically for Bootstrap here: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ . But what I've noticed is that every theme based on Bootstrap is incomplete. Focus of my themes is to provide everything you need to build an app. Re-branding every component was a lot of work and trying to make them not look like Bootstrap was even more work.

I applaud your service, but as a potential customer, I need something easier to use to provide websites on demand. Just thought this could be interesting for you to know. I have more than 500 hits per month, all small businesses who want to create a "website". For many a simple bootstrap theme would do... with very little parametrization.

Take a look at http://divshot.com/. Someone pointed me to this today.
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