[realprimoh]

You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time.

This UI library sped up my dev time at least two-fold. The components and sample landing pages provided are really great IMO (and judging by their sales, it's not just me who agrees).

[bryanrasmussen]

>You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time.

the comment seems more about how lousy the product it is, and sure I wouldn't want to spend my time making a lousy product, but if in my technical evaluation something sucks then there is generally a good chance that I can build something better.

So the comparison is between using money to buy something bad or using time to build something good and the phrasing would be something like:

You are welcome to use your time to build something that doesn't have all these problems.

[manojlds]

Point being it's incomplete and so you spend money AND time.

[realprimoh]

It’s not incomplete though. It has all the components you need to fully build a full-featured functioning web application fast.

I’ve shipped products with this kit without having to change much code because it’s very well-made.

Don’t take it from me - take it from the tens of thousands of devs who also use it.

The commenter above didn’t even look deeply into the actual offering. Catalyst is just one tiny (new) subset of the large number of things offered by the entire package.

[charlie0]

I paid the all access price a couple of years ago and it's been very worth it as I'm more of a backend dev. It's saved me a ton a time.