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Show HN: I built a website editor for TailwindCSS

by harrisreynolds on 4/7/23, 3:32 PM with 53 comments

• by harrisreynolds on 4/7/23, 3:42 PM

  Hey guys! I've spent the past three months rewriting the WeBase front-end based on TailwindCSS!

  The original front-end was built with Bootstrap, a tool I still very much appreciate, but as I really started to "get" Tailwind I started to see its power and wanted non-developers to get to experience it.

  The WeBase website editor only supports around 70% of Tailwind (the full surface area of Tailwind is pretty BIG!), but I am happy with how it has turned out.

  There are still some UX issues I need to improve but I wanted to start getting some feedback as soon as possible to I'm making if generally available today!

  I'm running a deal for HN users... 80% off of the Lifetime deal ($49 instead of $249). Just use the coupon code: HN4LYFE

  The pro version allows you to publish to websites to custom domains with a Netlify integration as well access to a ChatGPT AI Assistant for generating content.

  If you've every wanted to launch a personal or any other kind of website this is a pretty good deal! :-)

  The coupon code will expire after Monday, April 10, 2023.

  Feedback welcome!

• by jakelazaroff on 4/7/23, 4:05 PM

  Edit: looks like I missed some copy on the landing page mentioning that you can download the code! Leaving the original comment below for posterity.

  One thing I've never understand about the landing pages for this type of product… why mention Tailwind (or Bootstrap, etc)? It's not clear whether you get to download the actual code, but it does mention that it integrates with Netlify so I'm guessing not. If you can't get the actual code, why highlight what's ultimately an implementation detail?

  (The app does look neat, by the way — congratulations on launching!)

• by h4ch1 on 4/7/23, 4:57 PM

  I apologise if this sounds rude, but the website/demo does not really instill confidence viz. the demo and the general non-functioning + a really dated design along with that price tag.

  Feels like you're banking on the Bootstrap feel.

• by Bishonen88 on 4/7/23, 4:43 PM

  I don't really personally care, but I noticed that there isn't any cookie popup being shown, yet there are some cookies. Using a page like this (https://2gdpr.com/) shows 3 out of 5 tests as possibly in the red.

  Never hosted a page of my own but always wondered how to make sure if I comply with all the rules after hearing from my colleagues that they've received a letter from some company asking for money for not complying to those.

• by EMM_386 on 4/7/23, 6:46 PM

  "TailwindCSS is rapidly becoming the industry standard styling framework"

  This is a pretty bold claim. I wouldn't say that TailwindCSS is anywhere near the industry standard.

  It has its fans, but it also has its detractors.

• by knewter on 4/7/23, 4:32 PM

  Webase is cool. I used an earlier iteration to put together a tiny project teacher prototype and it was very smooth. With the tailwind components, it looks nicer!

• by butterfly771 on 4/7/23, 5:57 PM

  To be honest, the design of this site is so simple and somewhat bootstrap-era that I feel as if the $249 price tag is a joke.

• by rayrag on 4/7/23, 4:45 PM

  Your landing page is ugly to be honest, half of links in the footer goes nowhere - this is unprofessional and lazy. There's no clickable demo, not even overview of components. Why do you lauch your product at current state? Why submit it to HN?

  There are plenty of other web builders based on Tailwind or Bootstrap, often they have free tiers, and you're charging 249$, for what? For 300$ you can get Tailwindui* from creators of Tailwindcss or something like Shuffle.dev that has components for Tailwind/Bootstrap/Bulma.

  https://tailwindui.com/

  https://shuffle.dev/

• by beenHot400 on 4/7/23, 4:59 PM

  To deploy each site on netlify, are you creating individual repositories for created website?

• by ericls on 4/7/23, 5:51 PM

  No privacy policy?