(Re)launch HN: Weweb.io (YC W21) – visually build the front-end of your web-apps
The tool was initially meant to let people visually build static websites' front-ends on top of any headless system. Between March and this summer, we received tons of feedback which led us to turn WeWeb into a visual front-end builder for web-applications, not only websites.
It means that users can build their front-end with a Webflow like editor + add authentication (with Auth0), do CRUD with data from their back-end (SQL DB, REST API, Airtable) and create front-end workflows using custom variables and JS functions.
Also, when setting up collections of data in a project, users can now choose if the data will be dynamically fetched on the client-side or statically stored in the front-end.
It took us 5 months to turn WeWeb into this new version. Although it's still in beta, we think it's time to launch it publicly - and there's no better place than HN to get started :)
Please fire your comments at us, the last launch generated a tremendous response.
We'd love to hear about the difficulties you may have encountered when creating the front-end of a web-app (Time to build? Speed of iteration? Performance issues? Difficult back-end integration? Etc.). Based on your experiences, we could do the exercise of determining whether visual programming could have helped solve these problems.
We would also love to hear your feedback about the new version of the tool. You are welcome to give it a spin at https://www.weweb.io