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Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by jplur »

Amazing work with this!

I'm working on something similar, so I know the monumental amount of work that must of gone into this app, really impressed and looking forward to seeing your other components.

Here's a screenshot of mine: http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.selfsamegames.com/tmp/screen1.jpg

Congrats!

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by callmevlad »

JPKab wrote: post #44
callmevlad wrote: post #3

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.

You beautiful bastards!! This is what I have been waiting for! Thanks!! Looking forward to using this when Saturday hits.

I just printed this comment out and pinned it to the wall. :)

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by msoad »

callmevlad wrote: post #3

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.

My first impression: Adobe wants to buy this so bad...

I worked with Brackets team. I know which direction they are going and this is so inline with that.

Good luck.

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by callmevlad »

ktavera wrote: post #70
callmevlad wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure! It's Node.js (pretty vanilla Express) on the backend, but most of the heavy lifting is in the browser. After trying Angular, Backbone and Ember, we settled on KnockoutJS for multiple reasons (that's a whole post in itself), the main one being performance (though some may find that statement shocking).

Good choice with Knockout. I use it in many apps because of how lightweight and easy to implement it is. I've hit some performance problems when tracking large number of observables but overall it can handles 99% of situations nicely.

Yep, that's been our experience so far. Believe it or not, but there are north of 100,000 observables on the CSS Playground page alone, so we had to really optimize things. It's still sluggish in some areas, though.

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by callmevlad »

nickfrost wrote: post #78
callmevlad wrote: post #3

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!!!!

Thanks Nick! We're bootstrapping pretty hard right now, but always open to options. I'd love to get in touch with you - can you send me an email?

Re: Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

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Post by michaelpinto »

bryanh wrote: post #56

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…

If you made a version that exported WordPress themes I'd kill for that!
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