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I've been playing around with several tools like this and must say the idea is great.
Building on top of something users already use and know well is a great advantage. Spreadsheets play the role of databases in many businesses in fact, so it's natural for them to start from there.
However, Google already has it's native solution for this - it's called AppSheet, it's even available directly from the Google Sheets toolbar. That's a huge advantage for them. There are also many others, like Adalo, Bubble etc.
How do you plan to play against them? Does your product has something others don't?
I'm not saying there is no space for another project in that field :)
Wish you best!
Hey Sebastian,
Thank you so much for the reply.
100% - there are definitely some competitors in this space, AppSheet included. Frontly is unique because we also offer a fully custom REST API data connection, so you can connect to legitimate databases as well if necessary.
We are still somewhat early in development, so of course we plan to keep improving over time, but we believe that Frontly can be the easiest by far in terms of getting slick, heavily customizable apps up and running in just a matter of a few minutes.
Looking at AppSheet, I think there's a really big opportunity to offer slicker UX design by default that they don't offer as much as I'd like.
If you're interested at all in being a beta tester we'd love to connect. We can make it worth your while with free access and even gift cards etc for your time 😊
That’s true, the UX of AppSheet is not the slickest one 😉 Great point for Frontly to stand out.
I’m now focusing on some other spaces, so to be honest, will not find much time for testing – sorry. But thanks for an offer, it sounds fair (free access for testing).
Good luck with development and finding beta testers!
You did some great job with those YouTube videos, I’m sure you will benefit from that.
Thank you! 😊
it would be good to add demo video or demo app which can highlight the features of the app without requiring login.
Check this out for the demo apps! https://demo.frontlyapp.com/home
This is better however what i was hoping for is something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEukKqXj4fc as you are demonstrating your tool in addition to the final product made by the tool. Do you have a youtube channel? if not my suggestion is to create one where you can demonstrate interesting usecases possible with the tool as well as how to use the tool also put link to your product in every video hope it helps.
Right. I appreciate the inputs! 😊 Here's our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/750b3J-CPRA. And we'll surely add more demo apps soon.
I didn't even know that was possible!
See how easy and fast you can make custom apps with Google Sheets using Frontly! 🚀 https://youtu.be/750b3J-CPRA
I really like the idea, almost everyone is familiar with google sheets nowadays so I think it's a cool approach that doesn't require people to learn much to get started. My only point of concern would be the pricing, I'm not that experienced in the space of website builders but all the one's I'm familiar with are cheaper, If there's a reason to why your product is worth more I'd add a table of competitors to highlight your USPs.
From what I understood on your landing page, you can build fully-fledged web apps with your tool. If I wanted to use this to build an MVP I would want to know more about it's flexibility and limitations, so like pdyc said, adding a demo video can be very helpful.
This looks awesome all in all though, wish you best of luck :)
Thank you! We are working with beta users now and will definitely be optimizing pricing as we understand people's usage of our system.
Our goal is definitely to provide much fewer limitations than other app builders while still being super easy, and we hope that combination will be how we stand out, but we're still fairly early in the process!
I like this!
Here's a short video tutorial of it. https://youtu.be/750b3J-CPRA
Thanks! :)
How'd you go about building this? Looked pretty cool. I'm a big fan of the sidebar and then main content split design for a web app these days.
Did you use a UI library component to build this that split things into the sidebar + main? Or did you put it all together yourself?
Congrats on the release.
sidebar is material design. as long it's using a material design framework, it should have that capability.
Thank you! Using Frontly, you can set up a sidebar outside of the page builder which is mobile-responsive by default. This makes it easy to focus on the page content without worrying about how it will layout well with your sidebar / header.
Frontly uses a module-based system that lets you add the modules you want without any UI libraries or anything.
We use some libraries internally in our code, of course 😊
Looks cool!
See how easy you can setup and use Google Sheets to your custom apps with Frontly! https://youtu.be/750b3J-CPRA
Thank you! 😊
Great ideas
Thank you!