Visual part is nice and Landing page and slick. However, I am not trolling but what happens when NextJS is no longer the hot commodity that it is today. I would prefer a Visual CMS that lets me do all this but the output should always be static HTML/CSS/JS. Most tools either do the visual part well but fail at the output or vice versa. I don't mind if the stack is NextJS or whatever but the final output should be a static HTML. Bonus if you can push to deploy to Netlify/Cloudflare Pages/S3 etc
I see more of a reason for nextjs than tailwind personally. Having perhaps different export formats would be good but I do feel like nextjs is a decent standard, for now at least.
I'm not sure this is exactly true these days with htmx I've been having a rush of fun again with light weight front ends. And full two way binding support.
I hope this is the next standard for CMS-style sites. I'm eagerly waiting for the thing that's easy enough for non-coders to use that doesn't make the code-capable maintainers want to cry mercy.
I was pretty optimistic about netlify-cms the approach they took just missed the mark on some technical things that NextJS handles as part of the framework.
Best of luck! IMO there's still lots of opportunity in visual site builders, and this one looks like it has a lot of potential.
I have seen far too much VB and VBA that was written by people who were only *ish* code-capable.
BUT.
The thing is, the result did basically work, was extremely useful to the people who were using it, and if the 'ish' person hadn't written it wouldn't've existed at all.
So I'm genuinely glad that they did write it, and they were pretty much invariably somebody who was self taught, doing their best, in isolation, with nobody around them who even rose to the level of 'ish' to bounce ideas off or give feedback.
It's actually quite a fascinating challenge to refactor code like that such that it becomes more structurally coherent *and* is still understandable and modifyable by the original author (ideally easier to modify, but I will settle for not making their lives harder while also making it easier for somebody like me to debug weird shit problems for them when they ask me to pitch in).
So my 'aaaaaaa' here is in a spirit of 'where did I put the tissue box, my eyes are bleeding again' but not at all in a spirit of criticising the original author. They made it work at all!
But any thought on trying to make it possible for people who don't code at all to produce non 'aaaaaaaa' inducing results needs to account for the part where we can't even manage that for the 'ish' people, and thus I am very suspicious of the odds of it ever working out.
It looks that way from some cosmetic choices, but structurally this kind of UI has been around a long time in many apps. Probably no one can claim to own it at this point.
I am curious how this compares to developing a site using the various AI/IDE add-ons. If you're already a developer enough to care that it's using Next.js, it seems like bringing up in Cursor might be similarly effective, though less visual.
Still, I'm happy to see developers pursuing tools like this.
I like it. Also pricing is sensible. Yearly $100 is OK for this tool, monthly, I honestly will not even consider, as you can see people are fed up with monthly subs.
I also like what I see in roadmap, you should have components, sync to github etc. So it looks like promising product to me.
I'd happily pay a fixed fee for a self-hostable desktop app version of this, that just uses Ollama/ChatGPT/Claude for the LLM part. Ideally open source too.
as others have mentioned, this would be great if it would spit html fragments instead of react components. It would be really useful for quickly building htmx apps.
