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96 points| hamza_nouali | 5 years ago |frontendor.com | reply

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[+] Brajeshwar|5 years ago|reply
I'm not really a big fan of Bootstrap.

I'm never going to use this for my commercial projects.

I'm going to use these for friends and family, who keeps asking me to "please, build me a website."

I like to help a team of developers doing something different and earning money. Best of Luck. Bought one license.

[+] Bootwizard|5 years ago|reply
I'm kind of just getting started on web development. What would you recommend instead of Bootstrap?
[+] overcast|5 years ago|reply
Neat. But the "x spots left at this price" fake urgency nonsense is off putting.
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
No, it's not fake. we offer unlimited license for personal & commercial use for both individuals and teams at $49 instead of $100 for the first 200 people only. Now, we have 173 spots left. check our Gumroad page ==> http://gum.co/f50/f50
[+] StavrosK|5 years ago|reply
What do you not like about it? I mean, it's not great, but saying "We'll give the first 200 people half-off" seems fine to me.
[+] Bootwizard|5 years ago|reply
This site loaded faster than most I've visited in recent memory. How did you accomplish that? I'm impressed!

(Also this is great, I may end up buying a license!)

[+] hamza__nouali|5 years ago|reply
1. We don't use unnecessary libraries. 2. We use lazy loading for images.
[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
Thank You.

We were really thinking and arguing a lot about how we make Frontendor loading fast.

We are really happy with what we have done.

[+] Gys|5 years ago|reply
[+] hamza__nouali|5 years ago|reply
I am updating this manually. I forgot to update the second page.
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
fixed now, thank you! our goal is to make 200 sales at this price.
[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
Hello,

Please follow Gumroad spots left. We updated our website spots faster because we are selling Frontendor blocks faster. That's the reason. Sorry for that.

Thank You.

[+] r6203|5 years ago|reply
Great project.

Here are a few things that came to my mind after visiting your site.

1) On an iPhone 6, the preview of one of the templates in the “GET STARTED FASTER BY GETTING ALL OF OUR READY-TO-USE TEMPLATES” section doesn’t work (I only checked one template). You can’t scroll on the page that opens. And the “responsive” device buttons don’t make sense when viewing the page on mobile, I think.

2) I was hoping you’re using Bootstrap (and not some entirely custom css) but it wasn’t clear on first sight if that’s the case. Yes, you’re stating it above your headline but I would make that more prominent as it’s easily overseen (at least by me).

3) I have no idea who you guys are, so the “built by...” doesn’t make that much sense to me. I saw that also on the Tailwind UI site but at least over there I know who Adam Wathan is...

[+] mahaganapati|5 years ago|reply
Nitpick: the dollar symbol comes BEFORE the number. $49 and not 49$

Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?

[+] Kuinox|5 years ago|reply
Yes, we write 49€. It's how you spell it, fourty nine euro. Actually, it depends where, but most of the country put the sign at the end, like most notations.
[+] cocoapuffs7|5 years ago|reply
Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:

"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."

[+] krick|5 years ago|reply
It isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.
[+] kickling|5 years ago|reply
50:- or 50 kr is how 50 kronor is written in sweden (and probably all of scandinavia).
[+] gmanis|5 years ago|reply
I would love if there is something like this for simple e-commerce sites.

I help lot of small businesses with their basic store front with stripe/Braintree connected and some dashboard type apps.

If there’s basic UI ready made components like search page, search results, product description, checkout, that’ll make my life easy and worth spending for. I don’t like bootstrap themes as there’s lot of editing and it’s not easy to just take components into existing projects.

Well done guys!

[+] hamza__nouali|5 years ago|reply
We are planning to make something similar to e-commerce, blogs, communities, web apps, etc. Thank you!
[+] wallawe|5 years ago|reply
This is great, I was actually considering building out something similar but I'll rely on y'all for now.

The terrible thing about existing solutions, is that all the themes/templates out there are hard to break into pieces without moving a bunch of CSS/JS around and they often lacking in the performance dept bc of all the bloated packages that come with them.

Best of luck, hoping to see many more blocks!

[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
Thank you wallawe. You will see more updates coming the next few days.
[+] keenmaster|5 years ago|reply
Looks great. What differentiates frontendor from competitors with similar features? Someone recommended RenderForest to me because of the ability to drag and drop modules to build a website. https://www.renderforest.com/website-maker
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
1. Our blocks are totally separated, you even integrate them to any existing code base without conflicts. 2. We use CSS only with CSS variables for customization (No SASS, so you have zero complexity). 3. Unlike the most templates I see out there, we have amazing design and user experience on mobile. 4. Elegant and modern design that works with anyone. 5. Huge library of 50+ HTML blocks & 4 ready-to-use templates (6 templates are coming these days). 6. We're planning to add new blocks regularly over time and all new blocks added will be totally free for existing customers. 7. Unlimited personal & commercial use for a one time payment 8. We spent 6 months doing research on marketing & sales to build this (design based on proven marketing & sales principles).

If you are not a developer, you can't use our blocks because it requires some HTML & CSS skills.

[+] Gys|5 years ago|reply
The one time fee makes me a little doubtful if this project will really continue. Especially because it seems to me you are selling less quickly than you hoped for (only 25% of the 'early bird' packages are sold after being 17 hours on an important channel for such product).

Maybe you should explicitly commit to X blocks and X templates within X time? X year(s) of support for Bootstrap 4.x?

I like the idea but am not sold yet for those reasons.

Another thing: there is nothing about custom theming. Do you use css vars, so I can customize a color in one place? Some source code example (downloadable?) would be helpful. Maybe one template with its different blocks to give out for free as an example for the rest.

[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
Yeah, we didn't reach our sales goal yet, but this doesn't mean we are going to stop here. Also, consider that we are beginners as makers and we don't have an audience to support us.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step".

Thank you so much

[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
Hello,

In fact, we did not expect all these good comments about the project and that discount we did because we wanted some money for the coming period so that we can give more and more time for Frontendor because frankly we were thinking about leaving our work in the company we work in now to focus more on Frontendor.

Of course we will create more blocks and expand our project. We just wanted to see the project idea wanted by the developers. This really supports us to give more.

Yes! Everything designed and coded to be easy to customize. Customize your fonts, colors and spacing with CSS variables.

Get this 13+ free hero blocks for FREE: https://gum.co/FreeHero/f100

If you purchased a license we will support you at any time.

Thank You.

[+] renewiltord|5 years ago|reply
Very cool. Any chance you guys will do what Creative Tim does and let us have one shot free?
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
Yeah sure, subscribe to our newsletter. Last month, we've sent free copies of this to our subscribers. Thank you!
[+] danielovichdk|5 years ago|reply
Seriously, I love the idea. When i am rested and up again i will buy this.
[+] mickeyckm|5 years ago|reply
this content seems to be very centric around internet business. do you provide or will you add new content for other types of businesses like restaurant, bars or laundromat, etc.
[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
This is UX/UI Designer of Frontendor. Thank you for your comment.

This is just the beginning and of course we are considering expanding to include more businesses soon.

[+] Abdera7mane|5 years ago|reply
Will you add a lot of blocks for the coming period?
[+] Dude27|5 years ago|reply
The templates look awesome. Please add more.
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
6 more templates will be included with this package before the end of this month.
[+] ayoubsh|5 years ago|reply
These blocks require JS or extra plugins?
[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
Hello,

Thank you for your comment. For javascript, we are using vanilla javascript (no jquery, no libraries or plugins).

[+] zzo38computer|5 years ago|reply
I just dislike this style.
[+] hamza_nouali|5 years ago|reply
Oh :(, can you give us some feedback to improve it. Thank you!
[+] Frontendor_Team|5 years ago|reply
Hello,

Thanks for your comment. Can you give us more details about what you dislike on Frontendor? Or are there any suggestions that you think might help us?

Thank You.