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Show HN: Boomla – A free website for everyone – simple UI, JavaScript back end

15 points| zupa-hu | 6 years ago |boomla.com | reply

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[+] newman8r|6 years ago|reply
Good luck. I like how you don't have any trackers on your site (according to my browser bar at least, didn't actually look into it). I'm sure you could use that as a selling point somehow.
[+] zupa-hu|6 years ago|reply
Haha, thx! :) I do send some usage analytics data back, like, when you edit your site, that you used a specific feature. Is that okay in your world? To make it better I need to know what features people use..
[+] certera|6 years ago|reply
Saw this from the early adopter thread. Looks really well build.

How much time dedicated over the decade+?

What are your thoughts on how well these kinds of tools generate html? Brings me back to Dreamweaver.

[+] zupa-hu|6 years ago|reply
Thanks!

Depends on which part you mean, the platform, the drag&drop UI or the WYSIWYG editor. In the case of Boomla, you can write code on the platform and fully generate the result yourself, so that way it is up to you. As for the drag&drop interface, because it manipulates the underlying data structures and the final code is handcrafted by whoever wrote the code, it also tends to be as good as you want it to be. That leaves the WYSIWYG editor. Slate and ProseMirror are completely changing the game here, as they use a normalized data structure instead of working with the less structured HTML directly. They still have some rough edges but they are already amazing.

Time, wooh. I'd guesstimate 30k hours.

Would you maybe help kickstart a Show HN thread next time with an upvote? I'm struggling with this, that would help a lot. My email is in my profile (or you can reach me via the website..).

[+] zupa-hu|6 years ago|reply
Hi HN, author here. As I'm just showing this to the world, I'd really love to get some feedback.