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How does this compare to Macaw: http://macaw.co/ http://macaw.co/

hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
At first, I thought it was the same app. They are suspiciously similar.
callmevlad 13y ago
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.
- woah 13y ago
  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.
  - callmevlad 13y ago
    Great point. "Down the line" is quite relative, by the way. Right now, we are very fanatical about improving our designer interface, and we'll see where things go from there.
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At first, I thought it was the same app. They are suspiciously similar.

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.

woah 13y ago
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.
- callmevlad 13y ago
  Great point. "Down the line" is quite relative, by the way. Right now, we are very fanatical about improving our designer interface, and we'll see where things go from there.
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