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by edna_piranha 5045 days ago
Think of it as a prototyping app that you can create a functioning standalone app out of.

With Balsamiq, you can create wireframes but they aren't responsive nor can you do any real workflow out of it. In the Napkin project, our attempt was to experiment with the idea of combining wireframes with scaffolding - then you can export the app and continue development (design/more backend work/frontend/etc) or just port it to your preferred language/framework.

This was a project that came out of 3 months of development and planning and although it's still an early project, we hope it influences those interested in combining rapid prototyping worlds to contribute or build their own :)