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Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

#71

Co-founder here. My brother and I quit our jobs 7 months ago, and have been working on this day and night off of our savings since then. The CSS Playground is a preview of our CSS styling tools, and we'll be adding some of our other components (layout, adding new elements, code export) soon. Currently, it only works in Chrome, but we're working hard to add Firefox support.

I tried it in Firefox and haven't found anything that doesn't work.

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

#76
Incredibly well done and beautiful too - well done guys!

One route you may not want to get sidetracked down yet... I'd love compontents from this to use inside a CMS. Whether tools from the sidebar, or the easy WYSIWYG editor (if people could drag pre-prep'd text + photo layouts into the page, even better) -- I'd pay money for these, to build them into client sites.

Just a thought - everyone is inventing these standalone SaaS apps, but for all us doing custom software development - it'd be great to gain the benefit too.

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

#78

Co-founder here. My brother and I quit our jobs 7 months ago, and have been working on this day and night off of our savings since then. The CSS Playground is a preview of our CSS styling tools, and we'll be adding some of our other components (layout, adding new elements, code export) soon. Currently, it only works in Chrome, but we're working hard to add Firefox support.

Will you guys be doing the whole startup process or bootstrapping this like Github? If you'd like help with your AngelList page, let me know. I'll help optimize your profile and get you some traction :) I love your product btw!!!!

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

#79
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First of all: congrats on launching! 7 months is a long time, it has to feel good! A long time ago I built "squeeze page" manager which had an editor like this (it was simpler and more focused on content management). I sunk a lot of time into it. However, I ran into the same problem I bet you guys will run into: "the design tool chasm". On one end are simple tools for publishing on the web (Weebly and Wordpress) and…

Hey Bryan, thank you for the feedback! (Btw, we love Zapier!) We're definitely looking far beyond just being an editor. What you see right now was an important pre-requisite to what we really wanted to build - hoping to share more on that soon.

Did/have you considered making this into a native application? I can see this competing with fireworks, but not if it's web based.
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