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by RobbyMcCullough 3796 days ago
Wow this is gorgeous! Nice work.

I have a product in a similar space, Beaver Builder (https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com). A few differences being that it's an in-browser tool and it's a WordPress plugin.

Who is your target customer? Are you hoping to improve workflows for frontend developers or enable non-developers to build web pages? Also, what are your thoughts on maintaining a Bootstrap Studio site?

FWIW, we hit a nice niche with freelance web designers and web agencies. Drag and drop streamlines the development process and it also enables more tech-savvy clients to jump in and make their own edits and updates.
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Schrum 3796 days ago
Sorry to go off topic, but i've been interested in your product for a couple of weeks. I recently created a site for young people interested in horses. I built it with a theme called KLEO that included Visual Composer. VC is having insane load times, partially because of admin-ajax.php. Does BeaverBuilder also make use of admin-ajax.php? Visual Composer is clearly too heavy and unoptimised for us, so i'd be more than likely to go with BeaverBuilder.
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RobbyMcCullough 3796 days ago
You've heard of us!? No kidding!? That's awesome to hear. :)

We use a lot of ajax when the actual page builder is in use, but we do our best to ensure that page load times for published pages are low as possible.

Outputting lean and efficient auto-generated markup (relative to what was out there) was one of our big goals from the start.

We have a free version of the software in the WordPress repo: https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/

You can demo the tool, peek at the markup, and see how it well it plays with your WP theme/install with the free version.

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Schrum 3795 days ago
Hey Robby, thanks for the reply. Yeah, I saw it mentioned a couple of times on /r/webdev and /r/wordpress in threads where people were bashing VC while talking positively about your plugin ;-)

I'll try out the lite theme and hopefully find it fitting to our site. Once again, thanks for replying to my off-topic comment. I just had to take the chance since i've been considering your product lately!

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RobbyMcCullough 3795 days ago
My pleasure. Feel free to shoot me an email anytime, too:

robby [at] fastlinemedia [dot] com

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