How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/
Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
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Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#12> 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.
Hey Max, you're totally right. Responsive Web Design is exploding, and it's great to see so much action in this space.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#13I was considering using Jetstrap for a new project that I'm going to do after I finish up the Startup Engineering course by Coursera. I'm interested in using this instead afterwards.
I still don't know how to implement backend code with a front end website, but I'm sure this wouldn't be a problem considering the code is exportable.
Great work, I played with the demo for a while and I really like it.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#14How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/
At first, I thought it was the same app.
They are suspiciously similar.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#15(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
Nice work Vlad! I am super excited that you've shipped!
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#16How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/
We love Macaw, and the early preview looks amazing! Can't wait to play with the final version. That said, it looks like it is much more similar to Adobe Edge Reflow, but with a more intuitive interface.
With Webflow, we're looking to build a more comprehensive hosted platform that allows designers to create production websites and actually deploy them live. Down the line, this means that content management, functional web forms, eCommerce integration, and a variety of other things are possible out of the box, without the need to export code and change it manually. Even simple things for programmers like script compression/concatenation and CDN acceleration (all of which happen after the design phase) are hard for many designers to set up, so we want to take as many headaches away as possible so designers can get back to work.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#17Firefox (19.0.2) shows this error on the demo page
"This browser does not have native cryptography support :("
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#18(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
Congrats to Vlad and team! I haven't been this excited about a startup in a long time. Webflow has re-invented responsive web design.
Totally agree with ebahnx. I've got rudimentary HTML/CSS knowledge that I picked up in high school, but it was enough to know my way around Webflow. Built a responsive site (which I don't have anywhere close to the skills to do myself) in about 4 hours.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#19How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/
We love Macaw, and the early preview looks amazing! Can't wait to play with the final version. That said, it looks like it is much more similar to Adobe Edge Reflow, but with a more intuitive interface. With Webflow, we're looking to build a more comprehensive hosted platform that allows designers to create production websites and actually deploy them live. Down the line, this means that content management, functiona…
Your product is really awesome, but it sounds like you are going down a bad path. Playing around with it, I love how it is a good replacement for photoshop, built with the web in mind (classes are crucial so that I don't have to go and change every element every time I make a small change). Haven't used it on a real project yet, but I am planning to. At that point I will probably export out the design and then finish it in code.
Your plans to compete with every CMS out there, plus Shopify sound like a world of pain. I would love to see you guys stick to your core product and make it awesome without taking on that gargantuan task.
Luckily for me, there is a bunch of competition in the space if you guys slip up.
Re: Webflow (YC S13) Lets You Design Responsive Websites Visually, Publish Instantly
#20I'm a designer and developer - love the idea of both WebFlow and Macaw are up to.
I can see how this can be a huge time saver for me on the front-end - even if just another level of high-fidelity mockups (vs. production).
I find it really hard to justify dropping the money and then my time if I'm working through a web-based cloud service though (vs. a desktop app - even like the ones that call home like Creative Cloud).
We've seen a lot of web-based essential services go out of business. If I've mocked up 100 sites in WebFlow, the company goes out of business, and suddenly I don't have those resource files - it would be an even larger loss to me than any amount of money I had paid to purchase the software.