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Looks like this is meant for professional web developers to make their life easier. So it is not here to replace wix. So, 1. I am struggling to understand the

by o1y32 3y ago

Looks like this is meant for professional web developers to make their life easier. So it is not here to replace wix. So, 1. I am struggling to understand the value proposition of this. Demo is cool but most developers working in an organization will not use most of the features shown here. No, no rotation or fancy fonts or colors. The only thing they will do is to use the standard font or color. And most elements don't use any backgrounds, and if they do they use one of the three predefined colors as the background. Gradient color? Maybe once a year. You can already do spacing stuff and text modification in the chrome devtools. I know this tool seems to make it easier, but is it worth paying money for it? I just don't see myself or any medium/large organization (e.g. Microsoft) paying $30/month. Figma is expensive but that is a whole product by itself. It enables new workflow and is irreplaceable in many ways, but I don't see this tool being the same. 2. Demo does not seem to tackle one of the biggest pain points -- layout. Based on stackoverflow questions and their upvote numbers plus what I see in my company, many people (including new and experienced developers) have trouble handling various methods of layout and arranging items. That is where this tool could help -- if done correctly. 3. What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this, or the core features that people actually use every day? Can this compete at all? I'll be surprised if something doesn't already exist today. Basically, this is all interesting stuff but I can't see how it is a viable business if you charge $30/month.

onion2k 3y ago
What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this... Would you need to mount it locally with curlftpfs if you're on Linux?
- no_wizard 3y ago
  To anyone who doesn't understand the reference, its about the now somewhat infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
dmix 3y ago
You probably aren’t the target market, you’d typically ask the company you work for to pay for it or if you’re a freelancer and use dev tools daily for this CSS stuff (which I’ve personally done at various times in my career) you just factor it into your business expenses. It’s not like a random person paying for Netflix. $30 is a reasonable ask. > What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this, or the core features that people actually use every day In the video there’s a serious amount of functionality, that would take someone doing this as a hobby a very long time. And most OSS design-wise typically doesn’t look as good or polished (designers care about that). That’s usually the difference, the time/effort a commercial company can put in vs volunteer OSS teams.

by o1y32 3y ago

onion2k 3y ago

What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this... Would you need to mount it locally with curlftpfs if you're on Linux?

no_wizard 3y ago
To anyone who doesn't understand the reference, its about the now somewhat infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

dmix 3y ago

You probably aren’t the target market, you’d typically ask the company you work for to pay for it or if you’re a freelancer and use dev tools daily for this CSS stuff (which I’ve personally done at various times in my career) you just factor it into your business expenses. It’s not like a random person paying for Netflix. $30 is a reasonable ask. > What if someone makes a similar, open-source tool that achieves 50% of this, or the core features that people actually use every day In the video there’s a serious amount of functionality, that would take someone doing this as a hobby a very long time. And most OSS design-wise typically doesn’t look as good or polished (designers care about that). That’s usually the difference, the time/effort a commercial company can put in vs volunteer OSS teams.