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izakfritz | 1 year ago

We don't have any plans either way, but we've been thinking about this a lot. We've realized Repaint might be useful as a Figma that makes real code, so we're open to alternative business models.

Frankly, we've been very focused on making Repaint a great design tool to build websites and haven't thought about hosting that much.

Would you want to self host? Or maybe edit the code output?

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flockonus|1 year ago

I wouldn't even consider Repaint if i don't have access to the source code. I see it as a good starting point (like Figma), but i'll never rely on a WYSIWYG editor alone.

As presented only makes sense for competing with Wix for power users.

freedomben|1 year ago

Same. If there were a good WYSIWYG editor that would output well-formed Javascript (especially React) that was easy to edit/maintain by hand, I'd pay in a heartbeat. Everything I've tried in the past had too much friction. Something like Tailwind UI in an editor that spat out the same type of code as Tailwind UI gives would be killer.

But to the point, if my output is locked to the tool, I'm not going to use it. If I can get at least an uglified version of the source that I can host on my own Nginx, then it's a possibility, but not having at least that is a total deal breaker for me.

627467|1 year ago

As a Dreamweaver alternative would be interesting.