[bpatrianakos]

Is there a big market for WYSIWYG apps for developers? I think this is a great application but might it be better targeted toward non-technical people? Remember iWeb? This reminds me of a more developer-centric, flexible version of that. But no developer would actually build with it. It was for the people who now use Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace for their websites.

Developers should be able to put together a Bootstrap front end just as easily in code and probably prefer working in code.

Maybe there's a huge developer market for this and I just happen to not know anyone who'd be into this.

[teleclimber]

There is a whole spectrum of people who work "on the web" in some form or another: hard-core developers, front-end coders, designers, small business owners, content creators, etc... So any tool from Squarespace to BootstrapStudio to Emacs is potentially useful to a subset of the market.

[bpatrianakos]

But this is specifically marketed toward developers and designers. So my question is are there really enough of those developers and designers interested in a WYSIWYG took or would it be better to drop the Bootstrap focus and focus on the small business owners and content creators?

[teleclimber]

> But this is specifically marketed toward developers and designers.

"Developers and designers" encompasses quite a range of skills. Many designers don't know how to code or don't want to deal with it, or would rather do it in a visual editor rather than in a text editor.

On the other side, there are developers who aren't proficient in modern HTML, CSS, web technologies, and the obnoxious-to-set-up modern web tool chain. A GUI like this could be a handy way of bypassing some of these problems so they can get that website built quickly without it looking like it belongs on the 1990s web. (I admit this case is more rare.)

> would it be better to drop the Bootstrap focus and focus on the small business owners and content creators?

I agree with you there, and that's actually what I'm working on. In my application the web developer/designer can create custom "components" with HTML and CSS and some rules on how these components can fit together, and the site owner / small business person / content creator can manipulate their site in a completely visual, drag-and-drop, edit-in-place environment. There are no mandatory tie-ins with any frameworks or libraries, and the system doesn't alter your markup or insert additional junk. Any valid HTML and CSS the developer puts in will work and will come out essentially as entered.

[eli]

Yes, there are plenty of developers who pay good money for Dreamweaver or similar, and a great many more who would like to but don't think the tools are good enough.

Likewise many developers pay for point and click IDEs even though vim is free.

[toufka]

I would. I'd love to be able to load a specific theme/framework/css and have html/css written up for me. I don't mind the under-the-hood programming, and I even like designing, but writing up HTML/refreshing/css-ing/refreshing to match my design goals is really frustrating for me. The worst of coding, while simultaneously taking the joy out of the creative nature of design.

[herbst]

Same thoughts, i am a coder. I would never touch such Software. I still write the most correct HTML for my eyes and i am faster than anything else could be.