Plasmic

Maker

Thanks for the hunt @husseinyahfoufi! Your timing is uncanny—after many months in closed beta, we just announced we would begin opening up Plasmic to the world this week. When we started work on Plasmic over a year ago, we set out to build the creation tool we've always wanted. A tool to tear down walls and rethink the collaboration workflow. A tool that delivered uncompromising code but was approachable to any non-developer. A tool that blurred the lines across vector design tools, website builders, CMSes and IDEs. A tool that was finally a WYSIWYG builder that had no ceiling. A tool that was easy to start with but had unrivaled depth and power. A tool that was open-world, a "universal builder" you could bring to any environment. And much more. There's still much to be done; we continue to pour our hearts and souls into Plasmic. We're excited for what's yet to come, but we're *especially* excited to start sharing Plasmic and building our community. We're already in production use in teams small and large, and from this we know there's nothing more rewarding than hearing from users and seeing Plasmic in use. Thank you for the upvotes and support. We can't wait to see what you make.

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4yr ago

Franco Vargas Golac

DR Startup Store

I've been using Plasmic and I am very impressed. @yaaang maybe you can explain us the difference with similar products. I know the difference and Plasmic is superior than the competition, that's why I would love you to share it.

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4yr ago

Yang Zhang

Plasmic

Maker

@francovg_com Thanks so much Franco! It's a great question—the world certainly has no shortage of design tools, page builders, and the like, so what makes Plasmic special? Here are a few juxtapositions: It's a design tool that builds the real thing. You can start with drawing free-form wireframes, but ultimately express all the states, layouts, and nuances needed for production-grade frontends. It's a page builder that plugs into any environment. There's no walled garden. You truly own the code, you can host anywhere, and you can work with your choice of stack. It's a WYSIWYG editor that was built to work deeply with code. We're always expanding what you can do directly in Plasmic Studio but you should never be limited by the tool; you should be able to create anything with it. We hold ourselves to this—Plasmic was built in Plasmic! It's a UI builder that isn't clunky or highly technical. It doesn't require you to become a CSS expert, and is accessible to non-developers. Even for developers, it simplifies and unifies CSS, sparing us from figuring out arcane layout minutiae. It's a creation tool that welcomes everyone. We actually believe design tools and page builders can be quite intimidating and hard to use. (Plasmic still has much more work to do here!) It's a CMS that lets you author free-form content. Rather than block on development cycles for templates and schemas, you can create any aspect. Plasmic instead works *with* structured data from headless CMSes (and you can use its components and slots to model lightweight structured data directly in Plasmic).

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4yr ago

Ben Stocks

There is no real competition for this. Everything else promising in the space either falls short for dev experience or gets acquired by a bigger fish and disappears (see the sad story of Visly)

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4yr ago

Chung Wu

Plasmic

Maker

@bstocks We were big fans of Visly too and were sad to see them go... Hope Plasmic will be able to fill in that gap between design and code!

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4yr ago

Sam Gerber

On It - $5K To $500K: Jeff's Turnaround Story (Pt. 1)

@bstocks lol I was just thinking I needed to text you about this and here you are :)

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4yr ago

Ben Stocks

@sambgerber Ha! I'm happy you thought of me after seeing this product :) You might be the only person that knows my niche that well. If I hadn't already found it, I would have been super happy you pointed it out to me. It's actually an improvement on Visly in many ways. It does still have looming risk of small team in an early phase - but was so frictionless to incrementally onboard into my workflow that I couldn't resist.

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4yr ago

Sam Gerber

On It - $5K To $500K: Jeff's Turnaround Story (Pt. 1)

@bstocks 😊

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4yr ago

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