[makeee]

My project is https://divjoy.com, a React codebase generator that gives you a complete web app with UI, auth, database, subscription payments, and many other small details that are annoying to build yourself.

You can customize your tech stack and play around with the built-in "low code" editor by clicking a template on the homepage (no login needed).

Feedback much appreciated!

[escot]

I like the name. The website is pretty clear. But like another commenter it wasn't obvious that you have this complex UI builder. It seemed more like a template library.

As a developer my first concern is about the quality and maintainability of the code. If I can't write the code to begin with, then I won't be able to maintain it either. What might be interesting to me is a component generator instead of a whole site generator. For example if I want to make a list with a search box, I could see using a GUI to scaffold this out, download the skeleton code, and then fill it out from there. But I'm not sure I would pay for the service.

It looks from the tutorial that you handle firebase integration on the backend. But when I skimmed your landing page my impression was that it just generated the code to interact with firebase, but didnt manage a firebase acct etc. That actually is pretty cool if you provide end to end management and hosting of the server that talks to firebase.

Congratulations on getting a quote from the CTO of Stripe. I would feature that higher up on the landing page.

Who are your target users? If they are developers looking for great React code then I would feature more example code snippets. If its non technical folks who want a basic marketing page or simple sass product then I wouldn't feature React as a selling point and instead focus on things like ease of use, page load speed, etc (where React may be irrelevant or a negative).

My project is knotend (there's a top level comment) if you have time to try it out.

[throwaway123xxx]

Nice this is super useful, but as a dev, it is kind of difficult to justify paying for this when there are free boilerplate repos that bring me about 50% there already.

The other 50% like adding custom elements to the stack can be variable in difficulty depending on the plugin.

The drag and drop editor is interesting and I think it would be useful as a standalone tool to a different audience (e.g. no-code devs). The emphasis on codebase seems like the target audience is React devs. However, this group often already have dev tools they use and are comfortable with writing code so I'm not sure how useful the drag and drop ui would be to them. I think this would really empower non-technical people to build a website that can later be worked on by devs though. That seems like a strong value proposition to use your framework rather than designing something in Figma or other no-code website builder.

Also the drag and drop feature is not super obvious from the landing page. The term codebase and template automatically makes me think of boilerplate and starter code.

One additional thing is that the upfront pricing + unlimited usage is attractive on one hand but on the other hand, it is difficult to convince myself to pay it upfront before having used the product. I would much rather prefer a subscription or project based pricing because it gives me the opportunity to leave at anytime and not feel like I'm leaving money on the table.