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Fantastic write-up and application. I gave y'all my money a two or three months ago, and I've been very happy with your product. I had been flirting with a few other mostly-online solution for over a year (looking through book-marks they were layoutit.com and jetstrap), but always felt the features offered were half-hearted and clunky in a browser. "You can’t come out to a saturated market with just a couple of usefu…
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Originally I planned to publish PG packaged as a Chrome app. I spent a lot of time working around Chrome App API security limitations and complicated way of accessing the file system. Then I found node-webkit. I had PG working in a couple of hours. Using Node.js fs module for file access is almost trivial. In general I try to keep core JS code not tied to Node.js or anything else. PG uses Node.js part of node-webkit…
That certainly does. I've been toying with the idea of creating a node-webkit app, but have been having serious problems on deciding what should be in node, and what should be in browser-js, from an architectural point of view. From the sounds of things, you've worked around this by making it a web app that just so happens to be in a node-webkit container. Cheers for the insight!
Yes, that's it. Evertyhing is in browser JS.
So my process is tweaking html, updating the SASS file, waiting for it to build CSS, then reloading the page.. tweaking... it's really, really slow. Can we use this app somehow in our environment?
That's turning a negative situation into a positive, which is what a good entrepreneur does.
That looks awesome and as a backend developer it's something I'd love to use. But I'm not sure how to use it in my environment. We use compass/SASS to build our CSS files as we change them. So my process is tweaking html, updating the SASS file, waiting for it to build CSS, then reloading the page.. tweaking... it's really, really slow. Can we use this app somehow in our environment?
Until then you can use PG to work with HTML and edit SASS in an external code editor. PG will auto-refresh styles when it detects that CSS file was modified.
It is easily worth more than $49 to use this software. But $49 is the kind of price where a professional may just buy it from themselves without bothering to hassle their boss to buy it through the company.
This means less of a hard sell and more copies will be sold to people like you or me who discover it through HN or a tweet or something.
I do think they should increase the company price though, because once a company has decided they want to buy it, the sale is done. The difference between $79 and $199 isn't such a big deal, and something like $999 for 10 licenses could be done too.
$49 is a very interesting price point. It is easily worth more than $49 to use this software. But $49 is the kind of price where a professional may just buy it from themselves without bothering to hassle their boss to buy it through the company. This means less of a hard sell and more copies will be sold to people like you or me who discover it through HN or a tweet or something. I do think they should increase the c…