Comment by zschuessler | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zschuessler | Hacker News Reader

Looking great for a first release! The demo is smooth, well done.

Seems like there's a good framework in place to catch up to the competition. I'd switch away from TinyMCE or Summernote if there was a component/widget system that worked well. Writing custom behavior for any HTML editor is painful, and none of them have a big use case in mind: custom layouts.

SiteOrigin's Page Builder for WordPress is cool: https://wordpress.org/plugins/siteorigin-panels/

I wanted something (Free or paid) like what's shown in the above video, that's independent of WordPress. Couldn't find a darn single one, if you can believe it. I'm stuck with Summernote + workarounds to get something similar for a Laravel project of mine.

> I wanted something (Free or paid) like what's shown in the above video, that's independent of WordPress. Couldn't find a darn single one, if you can believe it.

I can, because I've been looking for one. I believe there's a market for well done components like this:

    * Drag and drop page component builder (think Leadpages, Unbounce, SiteOrigin Panels)
    * Drag and Drop email builder (a la MailChimp et al)

There's no need for every SaaS and startup to build their own - better to have a component (or even a dedicated service to integrate) to provide these JS-heavy timesinks than waste time while validating the idea creating them.

> Drag and Drop email builder (a la MailChimp et al)

Have you seen this? https://github.com/unroll-io/react-email-editor was released recently.

Wow, this is exactly why I read HN. I was Googling for exactly this yesterday. Thanks much!

Very cool! But you might want to make it clear that it's not fully open sourced - the github repo is just a wrapper your hosted js library.

Ouch, I did not realise that until now. Thanks for pointing it out.

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