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Hmm I was desperately looking for something like this and only ever found was Framer X. Strange I never came across this but definitely excited to give it a go!
Would a member of the Pagedraw team share a postmortem? Seems like this is a huge need and will be the future state of web / mobile design - what stopped you guys?
I think the reality is, no matter how awesome and impressive these tools are, they just don't seem to have a fit in the market. Prefacing this with the fact I don't know all that much about the product, only a quick glance For a big team of developers, building a big website with complicated interactions or requirements, a tool like this isn't going to meet all the requirements the developers have If you're building…
"Sorry, our editor is optimized for Chrome" Please don't fall for the monopoly. Spend a little time and make it work everywhere, for the sake of the open web
Pagedraw looks very polished. I can take some wild guesses why it didn't succeed but glad to have it live on as open source. My best guess would be that it either did too much or not enough. Getting an extra developer's worth of productivity from a tool is great but there could be other ways to make gains as noted in the shutdown page. Visual editing is a different way of programming and can be more or less productiv…
Would a member of the Pagedraw team share a postmortem? Seems like this is a huge need and will be the future state of web / mobile design - what stopped you guys?
Would a member of the Pagedraw team share a postmortem? Seems like this is a huge need and will be the future state of web / mobile design - what stopped you guys?
Here it is: https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-bui...
I'm super curious around what the sales strategy was.
I'd imagine for devs, it would have to be around productivity (time saved by exporting vs. manually coding, adherence to consistent CSS standards, etc.).
For designers, I would imagine it would be around taking more of the software dev lifecycle - e.g. designers can now eat up part of the value that front-end dev provides. Based on that, designers should be more in demand, paid more, and so on.
Those seem like huge levers to pull from a PMF perspective, but to your point, maybe it all sounds great until you get into that conversation, and it's really not something that teams are looking for (at least right now).
I don't understand why they shut this down before they even attempted to start charging money for it.
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I think the reality is, no matter how awesome and impressive these tools are, they just don't seem to have a fit in the market. Prefacing this with the fact I don't know all that much about the product, only a quick glance For a big team of developers, building a big website with complicated interactions or requirements, a tool like this isn't going to meet all the requirements the developers have If you're building…
Skuid, which is a page builder for Salesforce (now branching out to more platforms) is doing very well. At the company I work at we are going to switch away from it due to the limitations you insinuated, but there's definitely a fit for it in the Salesforce world.
It’s a pity they’ve shut down, though hopefully it can live on somehow as open source. There’s a lot of activity in the Sketch/Figma/whatever to React space at the moment, including Hadron [0], Alva [1] and Lona [2]. There’s a real gap in the workflow between design - basically a drawing - and working code. Handoff tools like Zeplin help, but it seems redundant to build everything twice, first in a design and prototy…
To make tools that generate React/Vue code work well you have to go far and beyond what most of the front-end oriented tools currently do...At Codesolvent we're taking a different tack..some samples: Showcase: https://youtu.be/hgFkzrqxDcs https://youtu.be/IpX47gAe150 Demos: https://youtu.be/u6uV2X1MGeY https://youtu.be/s2dYVret-Ck https://youtu.be/X6pL0St6NM4 Happy to answer questions.