I have poured my heart and soul into my web app, how do I get it in front of potential customers?

This is really serious project, good job!

I've built few page builders so far and I know what kind of effort it requirers.

I would say that main question every frontend developer asks is to what CSS framework is Nimbus exporting to? I didn't find that info anywhere on a site or a blog.

My team and other frontend devs we're working with are all fans of Figma. There were few nice plugins for exporting designs into css code, but along the way they stopped working.

How complex would it be to make this compatible with Figma?

If this was my project I would go to UpWork and post few jobs there and ask for some niche sites to be designed. After that you would add section Built with Nimbus to your site and link them there.

Also in this early stage, maybe scraping emails of React devs on GitHub and sending them emails is not a bad idea.

Hey, I created an account just to respond.
I came across your website organically through Google when I was looking for UI builders, I am building a website with Nextjs and wanted to iterate quickly.

I left your website after ~2 minutes tinkering around. I actually went back twice trying it out but it is not easy to use.

There are a lot of usability issues that turned me away

• The canvas does not snap, I would understand being able to add extra canvases for new pages but it is difficult to center it in the beginning, I spent some time trying to put it in the viewport. Is there responsiveness baked into the components after building them?
• Containers are not visible when added to the canvas, you need some visual representations like a slight grey border
• Selecting a component does not have great UI, the dragging/hovering is cumbersome
• I would add a few UI templates to showcase what your website can do. Having to start from scratch takes away from wanting to use it, I can just switch to any tailwind css / chakra ui component library and be quicker with proof of concept
• I can also just convert plain css / html components rather than build using the visual builder on your website, I am not sure on why I would use nimbus
• I still do not know what css framework you use, or component system so having that laid out would be great

With all of that being said, I think it is a great idea and would be interesting to see how it develops. I wish you luck with the product.

See https://openchakra.app/ or https://craft.js.org/ for references

I am in the market of someone who might use this product and I have to say I'm impressed with the product.

In your case, it reminds me a lot of webflow. Probably not the same but we all know that there is demand for this type of product, either for no coders or people who want to rapidly create components and pages. So in your case it is trying to find a marketing edge and competing.

I would try to get into the conversation and advertise against Webflow or some of the niche smaller website WYSIWYG editors as it might be cheaper and easier to run ads against and also maybe use web design youtubers and sponsor to get your product out there.

It might be costly though so I would actually try to get at least a few people to use it for free with maybe a completely free annual plan or a review so that you can work out any bugs if you have any.

Good luck!

I sort of agree with other people saying this space is saturated, I've tried to enter it myself a few years back and struggled. Interestingly I don't see much mention of Framer either, which would be a direct competitor alongside Webflow etc, perhaps even UXPin is arguably a competitor because it can create great code from your designs.

In a way I wonder if a really nice niche might be to ignore all the pages and site stuff, and just make a visual component builder? So like you essentially do all your frontend layout stuff etc for that one component and make that a really excellent experience, perhaps where you can even define the API stuff it would hook up to and you could build a library of these components. Almost like a design system builder that is visual-first.

Not gonna comment on potential customers, but on your website.
It is sloooooooooooow.
Being a selling point for your product, your simple landing page is loading a shit ton of scripts, and i scoring very poorly in google page speed.

I would look into that.

I really find the export to react feature interesting. Have you ever thought about turning it into a vscode extention? I would love to use it like that, there are many pages of my react app with legal/boring stuff where there is no real use of out engineering myself, but if it would work two way that could be a cool thing for every react developer, not just freelancers. The code/builder integration would have to be extremely seamless. Than you also would not have to compete with WordPress/wix and co that already dominate the freelancer and agency domain. An ordinary react developer could use that

I've been working on my own project for the last year and poured a ton of blood, sweat, and tears into it.

It sounds like you put a lot of effort behind this one.

But can I ask, is there a market for it? An interest? Did you start from a point of frustration? Either from your end or other people's?

I am asking because it is not 100% clear to me who exactly the target market for this. I understand what you wrote:

Our target market is mostly freelancers, designers, or product managers that want to rapidly build a custom website.

But this is not specific. This is like "everyone who does websites, maybe except marketers". Your value proposition seems to be (from your constant repetition):

A visual website builder that produces actual professional-level code.

Who needs this?

Look, I don't do websites for the better part of the last decade but my feeling is, if someone needs "professional-level code", I assume they are going to use specific CSS libraries (either their own design system or a framework like Bootstrap, Foundation, Tailwind CSS, whatever) or with all the JAMstack rage going on, to be able to export in templating languages.

Or if someone is using a visual website builder, I assume they are going to need easy to use and easy to deploy "all-in-one" solution like Wix, WordPress or Ghost.

That said, the above are my assumptions, which need to be tested against the market. But of course, your assumptions also need to be tested against the market.

Before answering this question:

any other suggestions for how to get this in front of those people?

I'd advise answering my above question (Who needs this?). Then find where those people gather to talk about their craft, where they research when they shop for solutions, when they talk about these what kind of language they use.

I can’t give you any advice but it looks incredible. Would love to know how you did it.

My initial thought was what’s stopping someone making the entire site on your tool and then exporting it and never coming back? What’s the incentive to stay?

Hi, Do you mean by professional level code that the output project will have a comments, an IDE debug configuration etc. or is this referring to something else?

Hi

I got your point and I feel this is something amazing if it's the same as what I am assuming. A complete Drag & Drop builder (No Code or Low Code) with which you can get the source code. If it is then it's something new. I haven't tried a No Code platform yet for my products yet is just because of these aspects:

1. Need a Subscription for a majorly one-time affair for me.
2. A high price with no flexibility of getting the source code so that you can get it edited later on by yourself or any other freelancer.

You look like solving one of the pain points. I would suggest Lowering the charges of the paid service by either removing some features or some other promotions.

You have a good product, go for the kill and get as many users on board as you can and let the word of mouth do the rest for you.

Regards

Atul Singh
Founder
Cognitiev.com

My 2 cents...visual website builder market is quite saturated and your going against well known brands like Webflow. I used Webflow recently and was able to export perfectly readable html/css and then hook up my own react code to the parts that needed custom logic. So while exporting straight to React is certainly useful (and something worth emphasizing your ads)...

Most useful "feature" would be to have a library of digital assets (like images, backgrounds, graphics) I can use without copyright issues. Digital assets that are unique and not heavily overused are rare and a strong selling point...web devs are not graphic artists and often dont have access to graphic artists.

So - exporting to React is nice but not something would make me switch from established platform that already allow me to export well written html/css that I can quite easily combine with my own react logic.

But strong selection of digital assets is something that would definitely get me interested.

At a basic level, you need to go where your customers already live on the internet. This is going to take a lot of experimentation, failures, etc. But it's the journey to product market fit!

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