Am I the only one who is tired of that?
Hi there!
I had an idea to build a platform for code snippets of HTML CSS and JS.
Each snippet is a whole section. (Header, Footer, About, Carousel, Navbar etc.)
Instead of building your own website with a web builder or with a developer, just pick the snippets you like and build your own website.
Who will write the code snippets?
I guess many of you can find that idea similar to codepen. And the question could be asked on codepen as well (also on dribbble)
Many Frontend developers can use such platform as a portfolio (in addition to GitHub) and maybe there will be an option to sell these sections.
I personally don't like to use themes or web builders. The code is heavy and most of the time not so good. I think that when someone needs to focus only on one section the code will be much better.
I'm tired of coding a new landing page over and over. There must be a better solution than Wordpress, wix or webflow.
What do you think?
I've built a platform exactly for this purpose and i'm happy with it.
https://www.bytehub.dev/ right now we have only react.js components, but soon planning to add react native, flutter etc.
I love dribbble, and always wanted have bettere designs for components used in projects i work on. That is how its born
Thanks for sharing.
I will definitely check it out.
Send me a message on
Navehmevorach@gmail.com
I would love to talk to you :)
There is definitely a market for this, but you have to make sure you properly size it. You can't appease everyone. You have to choose your frameworks to support. Other poster mentioned TailwindUI. I'm a subscriber of the paid TailwindUI product because the time I save is worth every penny, and because I use TailwindCSS already.
There are lots of frameworks to choose from. Here is an abbreviated list of directions you can go.
Plain CSS + Plain HTML
Bootstrap + Plain HTML
Bootstrap + React
Bootstrap + Vue
SemanticUI + Plain HTML
SemanticUI + React
SemanticUI + Vue
Foundation + Plain HTML
Foundation + React
Foundation + Vue
Bulma + Plain HTML
Bulma + React
Bulma + Vue
and dozens more.
When tailwind first started, they really started with
Tailwind + Plain HTML
However, they are now adding support for more frameworks. They did however Validate the demand with just Tailwind + Plain HTML, so I think that's the proper direction. Personally, I'd prefer for them to ONLY do Tailwind + HTML so they can push out more page sections/designs, instead they will be spending a lot of time building, maintaining, and supporting the versions with framework support.
I use react and find it pretty simple to do the translation from Plain HTML myself.
I never tried Tailwind before but I will definitely give it a shot.
At first I thought of building something that supports only plain html and plain css
But I’m afraid that due to all these frameworks there won’t be any demand
I think there is a market in each (including plain css + plain html), and no one can predict with any certainty which ones will be most successful.
I also think the highest value is in the design of the page components. The reason I purchased TailwindUI was less about it being tailwind and more about it being design I really liked and could use without much changes. The library was fairly full featured and had page sections for most of the things I'd need. If it was plain html + plain css with the same designs, I would've likely still purchased and adapted myself.
The tailwind team has a really great developer and a really great designer building this. If the designs are really good, I don't think it matters which approach you choose. I think that should be the primary focus.
Thanks Johnny!
I would love something like this. So will many other.
Just make sure there is a wide variety of styles so it doesn't feel so basic.
give this a try then https://www.bytehub.dev/
Try https://versoly.com/ (i built it) it solves this issue.
At some point we will open it up to templates and different frameworks.
No one should have to design or code up a landing page. Especially at the early stage.
TailwindUI has taken a similar approach - although they have extreme unfair advantages that would make it tough for you to expect similar results.
One of the problems that they have run into - and you would face the same - is that they have to write each snippet in all of the popular javascript frameworks.
Tailwind had lots a “clients” before the launch but their product is limited to their own framework
And I agree with you about the JavaScript frameworks. The could be a big issue
But don’t you think there is a big demand for pure html css js as well?
At the end of the day these components are suppose to help with simple websites
It doesn't matter what I think :) At best, I'll inflate your ego. At worst, you'll use my response to make a decision that should be made by talking to customers.
If you haven't read The Mom Test, you need to read it ASAP. It'll teach you how to go about validating your idea.
Thanks! I’m aware of that test
And btw I actually launch a website that supposed to help entrepreneurs to validate their ideas :)