Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly

(Co-founder here.)

138 days ago, we posted a Show HN [1], and the feedback was so massively encouraging that we doubled down on building the best possible responsive design platform imaginable. Thank you HN for playing such a big part in the first chapter of our young company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499

This looks good, though am curious as to how this compares to Adobe Edge Reflow? http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/

At first I was like, this is cool... but there's not a whole lot of new value here that makes changing how I work worth it. Then it allowed me to switch between mobile platforms, and desktop, and I was like "oh, hey i would use that"

So nice work. The core still needs some work but there's a lot of potential.

I loved what you were showing a while ago a lot, but I have my issues with the current iteration:

I envisioned it as a way to integrate it into my current workflow, instead of it being a completely seperate and independent webpublishing platform. As it currently stands, it feels like a slightly more design-ish squarespace with the kicker of responsive design. Nothing impossible to do with squarespace.

All you can do (at the moment) really is to set up some nice looking static sites, but the moment you want anything more interactive or custom features, you are out in the dark. Like I can't even enter the store on the second example on the landing page.

Just my two cents.

> There aren’t many competitors for a service like this

Very false. This space has started to see a lot of action (Over 10 high quality products come to mind, one of them another YC company) and will only continue to. It's going to be interesting to see how it all plays out (disclaimer: my company has products somewhat in this space).

Congrats to Webflow though, it's a great product.