Name: Graphite
Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)

Graphite Space is a free online website builder carefully crafted with web designers’ best interests in mind. Use familiar graphic editor tools to create professional grade web pages and publish them online without working with HTML, CSS or JavaScript code.

Very cool. What's the pricing?

@mfrz The best pricing there is – it's absolutely free, no fees, no limits 🙂 And we do not have any immediate plans to change that.

@followsummer What's the catch?lol There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

@mfrz There is no catch, and no strings attached! At this stage, there's no currency more valuable to us than our users' feedback, comments and suggestions. So if you look at it that way, it's not exactly a free lunch, more of a fair exchange – your time and feedback for unlimited access to our tool 🙂 But you raise a valid concern – please rest assured, that even if we ever change our pricing model, we'll notify all users in good time and make sure nobody loses their previously created projects behind a suddenly appearing paywall.

@followsummer Thanks for the feedback and transparency. I am normally an early adopter, beta tester and have been disappointed several times for softwares that start charging without enough time to make any change. In my view, in the long term your first users will end up acting like your ambassadors, so i think that when you want to start charging, look at you older heavier users, give them free access and referral codes and they will end up selling for you

@mfrz Sure thing, Manuel – I appreciate your honesty and good advice. We're a small team genuinely trying to make a big difference, so transparency is paramount to us. Not like we have a lot to hide anyway 😄 Sorry to hear you've had some bad experiences in the past – trust me, I've been on the receiving end of aggressive paywall tactics way too many times myself 🙁 And thank you for suggesting a loyalty program for the 'original' users. I think it's a great idea to find a way to repay the trust that long-term users have given us during the early days. If you have any more ideas on how we could do that (and perks you would enjoy personally) – please share, I'd love to hear it, and that would help us a lot!

Hello Product Hunters! 👋 And a massive thanks to @kevin for introducing us to the community. My name is Victor, and I've been grinding my way through the marvelous plains of Web Design for over 12 years. Starting out small as a clueless padawan, I've worked my way to the position of an Art Director. So it's pretty safe to say I've seen most of what this line of work had to offer – and from various perspectives too. But 7 years 'in the field' and over 90 web sites and apps designed later, having worked with dozens of various editors, website builders and other tools, I could never really say, 'Yep, that's the one! The Web Page editor that I'm 100% happy with'. It just never happened to me, nor to any of my fellow designers out there. There are 'perfect' solutions for business owners, marketers and front-end developers. But somehow, not for designers. Hopefully, the product that I'll show you today will change that. Enter Graphite Space. Quite possibly the first and only web page building solution that puts designers and the visual aspect of creating web pages first. Essentially, Graphite allows virtually anyone to use familiar graphic editor tools and techniques to design a web page (like you would do in Photoshop, Figma or Sketch) without working with HTML, CSS or JavaScript code – whether it's a necessity or just a preference. Now that's hardly a new idea, is it? Well, Graphite adds a cool plot twist to it. Instead of a mockup or a .png file, you actually get a fully responsive pixel-perfect web page render of your design. No code, no outside 'help' from developers, no deviations from your original design. Sounds like something you'd enjoy? 😎 As for the more specific features, if I had to pick just one for the spotlight – that would be our Hybrid Grid technology. As the name suggests, this feature allows you to create a fully custom responsive grid that will combine auto-layout and absolute positioning in one workspace. And it works! How cool is that? 🙌 But do you have to be a designer to enjoy Graphite? Not really! While we originally meant Graphite to be a web designer's best friend, it also turned out to work just great for various other audiences – like graphic designers looking for a smooth transition into web design, or inexperienced web enthusiasts feeling intimidated by code. Our ultimate goal is providing Web Designers with a robust and versatile toolkit that would cover all their professional needs in just one comfy solution. A place where you can come up with a cool idea, flesh it out on the canvas and get a ready-to-go web page – with no code, no developers and most importantly – no compromise to your comfort involved. We've poured our hearts and souls into Graphite, and are anxious to know what you think! The product is in early development, but we'd absolutely love to see you give it a try and please share your comments, ideas and suggestions with the team. Thank you for your time, and hope you have a blast with Graphite! Every comment means the world to us 🙏

@followsummer this is somewhat much better or is the best. I just found it more easy to work with, the interface is intuitive. Thanks for thinking out of the box.

I read your intro and it seems like this was created with Graphic designers or designers in general in mind. I'm none of those and in fact quite poor with it. Is it easy to use, like Wix or perhaps even simpler? What about templates for different industry, do you focus on that? Congrats on the launch!

@ken_moo Hi Ken, and thank you so much! At this point, we're focused on making our product work best for designers primarily. But in the long run, we would love to make Graphite a lot more accessible to other audiences as well. Speaking of Wix, it would be more accurate to compare us to their EditorX product. I'm willing to say say that Graphite is reasonably easier 🙂 As for the templates – that's definitely something we're pouring a lot of effort in right now. Like I mentioned before, it's a huge part of our goal to open Graphite to various audiences without any design background that might feel intimidated by other code-heavy editors. We're currently expanding our library of templates and pre-made blocks and preparing a steady supply of tutorials.

@ken_moo @followsummer I personally think Editor X was wrong in their approach. I want to see if this fixes where they went wrong.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I’ll definitely try this! 추천 합니다!

Seems to work like Carrd in a way but more dev-friendly than everyone-else-friendly. I also cannot seem to publish my website. I don't know if it's dead or not or if that's just me. Edit: My website has published since the last time I visited graphite.space. It's alright once you get the hang of it. A much better recourse than having to pay for the big name website builders when I literally have nothing right now. I believe this builder has potential, and I really hope this goes far and continues to improve.

Once you learn it, Graphite becomes a powerful and easy tool to use. Lots of options of how you want to design your website in any way you want. Best COMPLETELY free website builder I've come across. It would be nice if it had tools to make blogs, forums, and more stuff like that though!