Ask HN: WIX.com equivalent for designing front-ends

7 points by nicksalt 8 years ago | 6 comments

Hey All, I like building applications in Sinatra and love how easy it is for me design functional front ends in WIX.

Does anyone know if something exist that would allow me design for web and browser and easily export to code that I can place in my sinatra app.

gcatalfamo 8 years ago |

https://webflow.com/

nicksalt 8 years ago | |

Looks awesome. Have you used it? How was the learning curve?

gcatalfamo 8 years ago | | |

You could say it's somewhere between Wix and Photoshop for user experience. Still point and click interface but much more granular in its features. Try a sample project and get a taste.

Then you can export what you need.

hardmile 8 years ago |

Alva is an opensource project worth watching. It's working towards being platform-agnostic.

https://meetalva.io/

iamcreasy 8 years ago |

I am not a web developer but isn't Google Web Designer a free alternate?

https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

nicksalt 8 years ago | |

It seems as though this is only for creating ads.