raphael-gold

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co-founder & CEO of weweb.io, a no-code front-end builder. YC Badge: 0xc7d56dfeb1b07ba2f86ba0ea7d5aa6ae097b5d58
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Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks! Looking forward to get your feedback :)
Comment · 5 years ago
thanks! Just corrected :D
Comment · 5 years ago
Thanks, any feedback on the tool would be highly appreciated!
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Comment · 5 years ago
appreciate, thanks and please share your feedback with us if you give the tool a try - that's the most valuable thing we can get from you folks!
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Comment · 5 years ago
yes, actually a good portion of the users using Airtable asked for it, but it means that we might develop a back-end dedicated to this. We are exploring it at the moment. I sent a message to Colin to discuss the Clerk integration ;)
Comment · 5 years ago
looks like it could be possible :) I just sent you a message so we can discuss it further!
Comment · 5 years ago
Well the good news is that we already have the Strapi integration! You can try it right away if you'd like :) As for the hosting, right now people ask us directly and we send them their static files, later people will just have to click a button and configure the deployment microservice to deploy the files wherever they want. We didn't plan to enable using weweb on-premise.
Comment · 5 years ago
Agreed, they are building a really great product.

We are (at this stage) still very different though: with weweb, you can build full layouts with various elements and manage the CSS of every single element directly from a GUI in a no-code editor, just like in a Webflow.

In Stackbit's no-code editor, you can change the position of ready-made sections and change some of the props of these sections (text, links, etc.). You cannot however build a section from scratch 100% in no-code like you would do in a Webflow (or weweb) using grids/flexboxes, drag & dropping elements into these containers, updating all the CSS parameters visually, etc. You'd have to do it in the code in Stackbit today.

Same goes with Tina CMS. They do not offer a comprehensive no-code editor like weweb or Webflow and we are very different for that reason.

The cool thing that Tina and Stackbit manage very well (and that we don't), is the ability to add a in-line visual editor in an existing react project to change the content and some of the properties visually, but it is limited to these properties.

What we do on the contrary is offering a comprehensive no-code site builder where marketers would build 90% of a custom website and developers would add custom coded vue components in the drag & drop editor for the extra 10% that cannot be built in no-code (+ make some of the properties of these components editable from the GUI).

Hope this makes sense?

Comment · 5 years ago
Good question. Wordpress is number 1. It is the biggest site builder that has a GUI for marketers and that's open to developers. Only, it is in PHP, so we don't directly compete with them. Webflow, Squarespace and the likes are not direct competitors, but they are site builders that we sometimes compete with for some users. Does that make sense?
Comment · 5 years ago
Currently it is not available but that's the next feature on the list! We are thinking about integrating Firebase and https://supabase.io/ to start with. We are also taking a look at the possibility to manage all the users & authentication from Airtable. What would you prefer to use as an authentication service?
Comment · 5 years ago
To start with Stackbit I believe you need to start with one of their themes and stackbit would be added on top of it. While you can start from a blank page in our tool. In their editor, the customization possibilities are limited in no-code compared to a comprehensive no-code website builder.
Comment · 5 years ago
I understand. When you say self-hosted you are talking about the websites generated or the full app?

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