Supporting SASS (via libSASS) is high on the to-do list.
Until then you can use PG to work with HTML and edit SASS in an external code editor. PG will auto-refresh styles when it detects that CSS file was modified.
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Until then you can use PG to work with HTML and edit SASS in an external code editor. PG will auto-refresh styles when it detects that CSS file was modified.
Yes, that's it. Evertyhing is in browser JS.
Most of 16000 emails on the list are trial version signups. To activate the trial user needs to enter the email address and a simple activation code that we send to that address.
A lot of times trial users like your app but will forget to buy it because they don't need it immediately. About once or two times per month we send out news about product updates and occassional special offers ($10 off for Christmas, for example). That brings a lot of users back to the product.
Another thing that drowe early sales was giving lifetime free updates to early adpoters. So people bought PG even though they didn't need it yet or important features were missing. We did this for the first three months.
Wish you lots of success with your launch!
Then I found node-webkit. I had PG working in a couple of hours. Using Node.js fs module for file access is almost trivial. In general I try to keep core JS code not tied to Node.js or anything else. PG uses Node.js part of node-webkit only for file access, menus and clipboard. Everything else happens in a browser (embedded Chromium in this case). It would be easy to port PG to another JS-based platform, like atom shell.
Hope this helps.
In EU accounting rules are quite strict, so you have to enter every single transaction into your accounting books. A lot of this work is still done manually. Having one lump sum frees us from that as well.
The last time I checked Stripe is not available to merchants in Slovenia.
And Paddle works with PayPal also. Many people prefer to use PayPal instead of credit cards.
Thanks for the review!
WordPress support will be ready soon. In the first step we'll have a solution for converting statis HTML page to a WP theme. A bit later we'll add support for visually editing WP theme PHP files.
Looking for Web developers who enjoy building tools for web developers.
Our product Pinegrow Web Editor (http://pinegrow.com) is a desktop app that lets users build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS styling and smart components for Bootstrap, Foundation, AngularJS and other frameworks. It is packaged with node-webkit and runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Web developers from more than 100 countries use Pinegrow. Here's what they are saying about it:
"Pinegrow is my discovery of the month! Makes sophisticated web page creation brilliantly easy, visual and exemplary clean. A Must Buy!" - "It's the best visual #html #css #bootstrap editor I've seen." - "Severe competition for Dreamweaver. Pinegrow - an entirely different and very efficient approach." - "An amazing app. Seriously fantastic experience. I think this one-ups Macaw even."
We launched Pinegrow in January 2014. It's a bootstrapped product. Now it's the time to expand the team and accelerate development and marketing.
We're hiring one or more web developers who are good in: - HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, responsive stuff - JavaScript - frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation... - explaining how things work, creating tutorials and writing articles - helping users - writing in English
Bonus points if you have: - graphic & web design skills and experience - Node.js experience - good spoken English (clear, without hard accent) - familiarity with Pinegrow
This position is great if you enjoy working on variety of different tasks without a Dilbert-esque boss constantly looking over your shoulder. Your job would be extending Pinegrow support for various frameworks, building reusable web components, improving UX, creating documentation, tutorials and helping users use our products. You would be involved in the whole cycle of product development: from idea to implementation, testing, launching, supporting customers, marketing...
It would be great if you can work with us full-time from the start. First we would do a one-month pilot project (paid, of course) and if that works out fine for all of us, continue to work together.
We are (and plan to remain) small fast-moving remote-team-only company without office politics, micromanagement and useless meetings. Our focus is on building a great product that helps users save their time and effort.
Pinegrow has strong potential. It is extendable, so many interesting add-on products and services can be built around it. This is a good opportunity to get involved with Pinegrow at the very beginning of the journey.
Our company Humane Technologies is based in Slovenia, EU.
How to apply?
1. Check out http://pinegrow.com 2. Tell us about your work and yourself (info@pinegrow.com, subject Jobs)
That's why we sell Pinegrow Web Designer (http://pinegrow.com - I'm the author) as a normal desktop app. It has full support for Bootstrap, Foundation and plain HTML.
Start with small projects. It is very rewarding to finish something, even more so if you get people to actually use your work.
Also, software engineering is a very multi-faceted profession, that can involve much more besides programming:
- understanding business processes, regulatory needs, economics; - working closely with people as part of collecting user needs, customer support and team work; - education and psychology; - user experience and design; - ...
There is a lot of place and flexibility to find what interests you the most.
A lot of times it is said that you should pursue your carrier while you're still young and without many responsibilities. But the same goes for creating something meaningful with your life, for exploring the world and widening your perspective on life. It is much easier done when you're young and it beneficially affects the rest of your life.
Sometimes it is better to just cut your loses and let it go. Then find something better. Nothing is more important than your physical and mental health.
Since I was deeply involved in Tibet issue I decided to visit Tibet and spend two months travelling there to see the situation with my own eyes.
By chance I came to a small village called Ashuk in Kham (east Tibet, located in Sichuan province). The first impression was not good - everything was just mud. Mud houses standing next to the muddy road. The only nice place with decent food was the house of a local Rinpoche. One day I was bored and I baked a simple cake. He tried it and said I should stay there.
I ended staying there for three months. Mud was just one face of the place. Sun, green grasslands and incredibly kind people the other one.
In the next village I met a young buddhist master who was working on establishing a home and school for orphans. Helping him gave me a real reason to stay longer. We ended up opening the school in 2006 and it is still going strong [1].
I published a book about it [2] in Slovenia and hopefully I'll manage to do the English translation this or next year.
After that I switched a couple of regular jobs and enjoyed every single one of them: working on real-world problems (electronic banking, multimedia production) together with bunch of talented and all-around nice people.
My carrier was interrupted by unexpectedly getting stuck in remote mountains of east Tibet for almost two years. After returning home I felt professionally disoriented and took on a couple of terrible freelance gigs, working for a year like crazy and earning about 2 EUR per hour (in EU) because of feature creep on a fixed amount project.
Then I got to my senses and started a consulting firm doing mostly web development. Since childhood I dreamt of having a company of my own. When I got it, it was far from glamorous - trading time for money that barely paid for my rapidly growing expenses (marriage, mortgage, kid).
Software development is one of the rare professions where you can relatively easily create something that has a value on its own - scalable and not directly dependent on how much time you put into it.
Selling products instead of my time was my goal throughout this time. Now, seven years later, we (I run the company with my wife) are finally getting there [1] [2].
I made a lot of mistakes in these 20 years, but in general, if I could go back, I would not do it much differently. Mistakes are an important stepping stones on the path.
So, what I'm trying to say is this: you're young, do the things that excite you. There is nothing wrong in working for and with others. At any time, you can decide to try creating something on your own. At this stage in life you can probably take on more risk than later when/if you get a family. But no point in over-calculating things. As long as you breath and your heart beats you have the freedom to steer your life in any direction you choose.
I get your point and have thought a lot about it before deciding on 3 days.
3 days was a compromise between having a short sales cycle (we are bootstraping the app) and letting users try the app before they buy it. We also have an online version available for free without any time limitations. The only thing the online version can't do is open local files.
We'll reconsider extending the trial to 7 days.
If you like the app and feel it could be useful to you it would be a shame to blow it off simply because of the short trial. If you need to try it out for longer, just send me an email and I'll set you up.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gyzegb9sae3jlwh/Bv9NtDF96z (select ... and Download as zip).
Please let me know how it works out.
At the moment it uses Chromium to render HTML, but I'll add a custom renderer to support various templates.
Pinegrow has been paying most of our bills since launch and I have a lot of expansions in the pipeline: full support for Foundation alongside Bootstrap, developer edition that'll work with templates, a similar app for designing emails...