Webcodesk
Dev tools
visual development tool
SHOW HN2020
178points
39comments
#326of 3,028 in 2020
Top 11%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Docs: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Timelapse video showed the concept clearly
From 1 comment
The concept of this looks pretty powerful - the timelapse video on Youtube did a good job of showing me what I wanted to see. Devil's always in the details, of course, but at the…
rckoepke on HN
Looks promising and useful for drafts
From 2 comments
The concept of this looks pretty powerful - the timelapse video on Youtube did a good job of showing me what I wanted to see. Devil's always in the details, of course, but at the…
rckoepke on HNThis does seem promising. I am doing a school project with react & nodejs - I will try using this and see how it goes.
trenchgun on HN
Objections
Intro-first docs; wants a GIF or demo before reading
From 4 comments
> The best way to tell about Webcodesk is to let you try it in action. > So instead of an introduction, I would recommend you to complete the tutorial in the online version of…
hardwaresofton on HNI agree with this. I scrolled through the github page, then I went to the main homepage, scrolled through that and closed the tab. I wanted to see what it actually did before…
rickyc091 on HNSame. Asking people to upfront invest their time into something without first selling them on that thing is a big no no. Yes even/especially for tech projects and libraries.…
reflectiv on HNGlad you got through making the video, but maybe it was a little unclear what I meant -- a short ~15 second GIF of moving about the app (not an introduction, but when you're…
hardwaresofton on HN
GPLv3 license may block corporate use
From 2 comments
GPLv3... guess we'll have to pass on it
verdverm on HNCorp lawyers have said no GPLv3 for tools like this before
verdverm on HN
CSS centering of an icon was hard
From 1 comment
I like the idea but I stumbled on a classical CSS problem: wasn't able to center an icon. There were few alignment options, but I might have missed them, maybe they were in…
visarga on HN
Requests
Add a short GIF of real usage
From 2 comments
> The best way to tell about Webcodesk is to let you try it in action. > So instead of an introduction, I would recommend you to complete the tutorial in the online version of…
hardwaresofton on HNGlad you got through making the video, but maybe it was a little unclear what I meant -- a short ~15 second GIF of moving about the app (not an introduction, but when you're…
hardwaresofton on HN
Provide templates or non-trivial examples
From 2 comments
https://divjoy.com/ did a great job of providing reactjs(and extras) and was free for initial few months. Definitely refer to that for more inspiration on design and…
Sharma on HNThis is a good idea. It would also help sell people if the example was changing or adding something to a non-trivial layout.
azimuth11 on HN
Questions
How are component schemas organised, with code or proptypes?
From 1 comment
Very cool. A few years ago at NFL we built a CMS similar to this for managing sites and apps. It was called Component Builder and similarly you could cobble together pages of…
potench on HN
Alternatives named
GrapesJS, Builder.io, react-draft-wysiwyg, Blocks
From 2 comments
Glad you got through making the video, but maybe it was a little unclear what I meant -- a short ~15 second GIF of moving about the app (not an introduction, but when you're…
hardwaresofton on HNBuilder is not actually open source Blocks is alpha Grapes is ok, but the repo maintainer is not the greatest
verdverm on HN
Divjoy
From 1 comment
https://divjoy.com/ did a great job of providing reactjs(and extras) and was free for initial few months. Definitely refer to that for more inspiration on design and…
Sharma on HN