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Makeswift
Company blog · makeswift.com/blog · on HN as miguelollerwebstartups
Makeswift is the company blog at makeswift.com, writing about web and startups. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Show HN: Visual Builder for Next.js – Makeswift”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Makeswift in job listings and in a thread on whether it counts as a website builder. The comments describe it as a tool for building production-ready websites with a visual design editor.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Makeswift lets marketers build and manage websites with a visual-first builder, all while providing flexibility for developers to extend and customize as needed.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Visual Builder for Next.js – Makeswift3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-15
- /early-access2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Makeswift | www.makeswift.com | Full Stack Engineer | Remote | Full-Time At Makeswift we're on a mission to build the best tool for creative minds to bring their ideas to the world. The concept is simple. Combine the experience of a buttery-smooth, elegant design tool with the infrastructure required to go to production. Instead of mocking up static images and prototypes, build production-ready websites out of live…
Comment linking /jobs/engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Why build another website builder? as a story · 84 points
HN discussionMakeswift | www.makeswift.com | Full Stack Engineer | Remote | Full-Time At Makeswift we're on a mission to build the best tool for creative minds to bring their ideas to the world. The concept is simple. Combine the experience of a buttery-smooth, elegant design tool with the infrastructure required to go to production. Instead of mocking up static images and prototypes, build production-ready websites out of live…
Comment linking /jobs/engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”Submitted The MVP most startups ignore as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI’ve been doing a pretty deep dive on CRDTs and OTs to get the right user experience for our collaborative website builder[1]. I’m still not done with the implementation and subsequent testing (i.e., splitting text nodes, as mentioned in the post). But the core algorithm behind Automerge[2], formalized in the OpSets paper[3] is extremely promising. A good example of its power is the ability to do an atomic tree “mov…
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on “OT and CRDT trade-offs for Real-Time collaboration”Submitted Show HN: Visual Builder for Next.js – Makeswift as a story · 7 points
HN discussion>For one, the template never lasts as long as you need it to. You realize the design isn't working, or your competitor just unexpectedly made a move. So you start trying to make changes. Swapping out the text and images comes easy, but as soon as you start adjusting the layout, frustration begins to set in. You've got a million other things to do and for some reason you can't get the page to look right on mobile. I'…
Comment linking /templates
on “Why build another website builder?”Submitted Accessing your local Next.js dev server using HTTPS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're totally right, this is critical. If you want to check out how we do responsive design, you can do so here [1]. We're constantly iterating on the product so some of the UX and visuals in the videos might be outdated, but the core is the same. We'll be updating these soon! [1] https://www.makeswift.com/videos/designing-responsively
Comment linking /videos/designing-responsively
on “Why build another website builder?”Submitted Makeswift: No code website builder with Next.js output as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe do all hosting ourselves at the moment. As for trying it out, we're currently in early access and you'll need an invite code to use it but if you apply [1], you'll get one in your inbox pretty quickly. And thanks! [1] https://www.makeswift.com/early-access
Comment linking /early-access
on “Why build another website builder?”Submitted Makeswift 2.0: visual builder for Next.js as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey guys, I'm super excited about early access so that we can gather as much feedback as possible. We made a nifty handbook [1] a while back to show the basics of building a page in Makeswift. Would love to hear what you think! [1] https://www.makeswift.com/handbook
Comment linking /handbook
on “Why build another website builder?”From https://www.makeswift.com/early-access : > Can I host a Makeswift site elsewhere? > Makeswift code can't be exported. Every page created in Makeswift is securely hosted and served via Google Cloud. I'm sorry, maybe I'm just being absolutist and cranky, but this doesn't sound to me like it's a 'website builder' - it's a tool that allows users to create presentations that can be displayed on the web. I get why yo…
Comment linking /early-access
on “Why build another website builder?”
