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   Show HN: Art book celebrating the minds behind Google's first 25 years

   2 points by johndamaia 3y ago|0 comments
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   This! This is exactly why I built makers.so. Framer is an amazing tool. But if you are in the Figma ecosystem, it's boring to duplicate your work on a different tool. Same for Webflow. I'm trying to make life easier for Figma user
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   Here's an example: https://makers.so/s/5b16df0f-17dc-4045-b048-5047182e2856/ The output code isn't suitable for sharing / exporting yet.
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   Yes, great question. Free forever means your site with live on a makers.so domain like " https://makers.so/s/{random_string} ". Here's an example: https://makers.so/s/5b16df0f-17dc-404
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   Thanks! Happy to answer any questions to help you get started.
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   DONE. It's fixed :) Thank you so much, great feedback.
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   > Can the designs be exported or are they locked-in to your platform? The designs live inside of Figma. The code is not exportable at the moment. But I'll definitely have to prioritize that. > But maybe I am looking at it wrong?
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   Wow, that's incredible to hear. I'm happy to help you get started. Let me know how can I help make those projects come to live :)
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   by johndamaia 5y ago

   Thanks Tom. I'd love to hear yours and your designer's thoughts about the plugin. Happy to answer any questions you might have.
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    This is brilliant! We designers like freedom of thought, and Figma give us that. The goal with makers.so is: inside the same tool I use to lay out ideas, I can also publish them (i.e. use makers.so components) without ever depending on a de
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks so much! Hopefully, this will give Figma designers superpowers :)
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    > How do you handle updates? You change directly in Figma and click "Update Site" when you are ready. > How are menus handled? Modals and dropdowns aren't supported yet. Only the navigation bar pre-built component has a
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Such great feedback, Tom. Thank you for taking the time. I'm definitely going to distill all your notes and thoughts on this. It's funny you mentioned Microsoft FrontPage. Alexis Ohanian [0] also made the same comment :) [0] http
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Wow, thanks for sharing. It's great to know I'm actually making Figma more powerful. Please feel free to reach out, I'm happy to help you get started :)
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks so much! You have no idea how happy your comment made me feel. After so many hours of endless coding, this is a breath of fresh air :) Also, you are actually my ideal customer: a Figma user who wants to have an easy and fast way of m
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Wow, thanks so much for the support. I'm happy to answer any questions to help get started. Just let me know :)
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind words. Yeah, it's still a super early version and the goal is to improve with as much feedback as possible from the users.
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks. Let me know if you need anything to help you get started.
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    Show HN: Makers.so – A website builder inside Figma

    180 points by johndamaia 5y ago|45 comments
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Value is super broad. Value as in a person values? Or value as sharing knowledge on the internet?
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    As Portuguese, I can tell you this was massive! I went one full day without a stable internet connection, without being able to make phone calls and with very limited mobile data. This should make us think very hard about cybersecurity.
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing, it's great to see you grow! On a side note, I found it super interesting that a lot of startups use Notion as a careers site. I believe a careers site is one of the most important pages of any company's online
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Thanks so much for the great feedback. Anything you need, just let me know.
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Yes, absolutely. I've created a few templates to help people get started. Have a look here: https://makers.so/templates
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    John here, I’d love to show you Makers: a website builder inside Figma. Makers is a Figma Plugin to build and publish sites without ever leaving Figma. Here’s a demo [0]. As a front-end developer I constantly go from Figma to code / si
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    Show HN: From Figma to Site with one click. Fully responsive(makers.so)

    8 points by johndamaia 5y ago|5 comments
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    by johndamaia 5y ago

    Makers is a Figma Plugin to help you build and publish websites directly in Figma. No code required. For a bit of context, I'm a solo-founder and I started Makers after sharing my idea on FigmaDesign subreddit about how awesome it woul
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    From Figma to website with one click. Fully responsive(twitter.com)

    1 points by johndamaia 5y ago|1 comments
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    by johndamaia 6y ago

    Author here. Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently. Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any
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    We almost got acquired by Facebook and failed(johndamaia.com)

    2 points by johndamaia 6y ago|1 comments