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Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by _fmota_ »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #78
p2hari wrote: post #74

I did not understand the pricing. Is it for the CMS then? Is it possible to self host and connect other CMSes?

No it's another one of those startups looking to cash in on becoming open source. If your open source projects contains a "pricing" page prominently in the top bar, it goes against the open source ethos and you should be ashamed of marketing it as such.

I understand your mention of open source ethos, but open source projects can also have commercial aspects. It is primarily about transparency, collaboration, and free distribution of software. There are many successful open source initiatives that incorporate commercial strategies to support their ongoing development, professional support services, and operational costs. Our pricing page is part of our commercial approach, ensuring we sustain our open source contributions, also for some additional services that we provide.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by ryscheng »

octopoc wrote: post #42
xyzzyrz wrote: post #13

Excited to see this posted here! I think probably because we announced it going open source today. I think the GitHub page is probably a bit clearer than our website right now: https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic Basically, it's a visual page builder that plugs into your own Next.js/Remix/React/etc. codebase. Your marketing/content/design team can then build and publish pages without filing tickets on eng. This (co…

Congrats on going open source! Which components are open sourced specifically? Is there any chance it will be self-hosteable? I don't want to host it myself any time soon but I prefer giving my money to a company where that's an option.

I am so delighted to see this go open source!!

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by ryscheng »

I’ve been using Plasmic for the last 6 months to build rich featured Dapps in the web3 space. It takes some time to import all the React components I need but once you do, it is really incredible how much this speeds up my development. We now have non-developers (like designers and PMs) regularly shipping entire features to production without developer help. Really takes some of the pressure off the engineering team while drastically improving team velocity.

Just for fun during the ETHDenver hackathon, I shipped an LLM-powered NFT generator, with 0 lines of code in 3 hours, and won a cash prize. This tool completely changes the game for me and my team.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by jc1627 »

Plasmic is by far the best kept secret in the no-code industry. Having built apps on Bubble, Flutterflow and a few other platforms, Plasmic takes the cake hands down. It is great for complex apps and allows endless custom components, is super scalable, and is also open source.

Best of all, their customer support staff are top tier. Plasmic has a dedicated Slack channel where they respond to questions and solve problems almost immediately. They will literally respond within 5 minutes of a slack and start helping. It's white glove service that is rare.

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by bigboy12 »

xyzzyrz wrote: post #14
xyzzyrz wrote: post #13

Excited to see this posted here! I think probably because we announced it going open source today. I think the GitHub page is probably a bit clearer than our website right now: https://github.com/plasmicapp/plasmic Basically, it's a visual page builder that plugs into your own Next.js/Remix/React/etc. codebase. Your marketing/content/design team can then build and publish pages without filing tickets on eng. This (co…

I think another thing interesting about Plasmic is that it is a bit ambitious in trying to combine some seemingly disparate genres: - Webflow, Wordpress and other page builders - Retool and other tool builders - Glide and no-code app builders - Contentful and other CMSes Today these are different tools to specialize in, but the line between, say, a website and an application is blurry (consider an ecommerce storefron…

Eh, their page doesn’t even load. Feh!

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by eviks »

ireadmevs wrote: post #77
bossyTeacher wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mozilla needs to step up its game or its browser is gonna disappear :(

Or maybe Chrome needs to stop implementing non standardized APIs and becoming the new IE

Or maybe people need to stop using those APIs :)

Curious, what API this page uses that's so valuable to discard another browser

Re: Plasmic.app: Visual editing and content platform for building websites and apps

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Post by claytongulick »

chungwu wrote: post #69
claytongulick wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is my main concern too. I don't understand why tools like this "pick a winner" with a specific framework instead of rendering to Web Components with a framework wrapper, or using something like Stencil[1] that can render to any framework. [1] https://stenciljs.com/

We wanted to support tight integration with people's existing codebase, so that it is easy to use your React components directly in Plasmic, or to read data from your React contexts provided from outside of Plasmic, or to have your code components communicate with each other via React contexts when they're used within Plasmic, etc. There's power in being in "one React tree" with your existing app. I imagine it's poss…

Sure, though if you had selected Web Components as the base implementation, you could have achieved that goal while also being compatible with almost every other framework. See Ionic for a great example of this.

There are several lightweight wrapper libraries to "reactify" web components.

Going the other direction is not as easy. While it's possible, it involves loading all of react into another framework.

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