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Playing with Napkin, it looks very promising. Just the things I need: write random code, test it right there, press deploy and get the endpoint right away.
Love that it's free for personal use. Just make sure you make enough money on paid plans and don't shut down like Webtask!
"Is effort to be a great person worth it? ...those who did succeed said - Yes it's better than wine women and song put together... Doing something really first class and knowing you've done it is better than anything else they can think of."
EF is in-person and more focused on matching co-founders and forming teams. You need to have a project for Pioneer, while EF accepts people based on their profile/interviews.
You can say that all accelerators are pretty similar: you get investment, listen to some speakers, attend office hours, etc. So what matters in the end is the network of people running the program and participating in it.
Thanks for the note, fixing Firefox!
There is a paid PRO plan in the app. It's pretty standard for site builders - pay for custom domains and premium blocks. I'll add this info to the website.
Thank you for the feedback!
Great question, I don't think I realized how many website builders there are before I started working on Airsite :D Just on Product Hunt: there is another one launching today, and one yesterday.
I think the main differentiator now is that it's mobile-first, there are not that many of those and even fewer good ones.
The problem with the mobile focus is that building a website is kind of too complex of a task for mobile. Not having a mouse/keyboard and having all your controls on the same small mobile screen makes everything so much harder.
So, to summarize, I'm differentiating by focusing on mobile, but there are some trade-offs in that focus that make it harder to build a good product. I hope not impossible. I guess we'll see :)
I'm still debating if I should have a bare bones landing page with just 2 download app buttons or show off the possibilities of the editor more.
I would probably add a web version at some point. Desktop is definitely more convenient for "building a website" type of work. I guess many people who want to build something on mobile now, just don't have access to desktop and therefore have to do it on mobile.
The goal is to build something that's friendly and intuitive for someone who makes their first website. But also powerful and flexible enough for power users who can create pretty much anything they want. I made 3 iterations of the editor and the current one is pretty close to flexbox layout.
I would really appreciate any feedback! You can email me at andrey@airsite.co tweet @pyankoff or join the discussion on Product Hunt - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/airsite
Web/mobile development is kind of commodity already. One can learn nuclear physics, but it doesn't feel like you can hack on it a lot.