[fowlie]

This is just awesome! But seems like a closed source project, and the pricing page returns HTTP 404.

Are there any open source alternatives like this? First time I hear about this idea. However, I can imagine it wouldn't take much effort to implement the basics. Chromium even has a design mode you can activate by typing `document.designMode='on'` in the console. Then you would just need to write a little javascript that handles auth, a save button, and a backend to persist the altered html.

[panphora]

There is an open source, local app version by the same author (me) here: https://hyperclay.com/hyperclay-local

[theelous3]

fwiw, for this kind of tech - personal level projects - there is not a snowball's first summer outing in hell's chance I'm going to pay for someone else to host my thing remotely. I would like to just self host, and if it was good I would buy a license for it so I can self host - but I think you have a customer in mind that doesn't exist.

Your ideal customer a) is extremely technically proficient, such that they are even capable of finding this in the first place, and their brain doesn't glaze over at "jQuery is Your Starting Point" - the opening line of your docs. b) They for some reason would rather pay for someone else to do the world's easiest hosting job and deal with whatever baggage and limitations come with this.

Or am I misunderstanding? Like it's a nodejs server on some aws box. Charging people for this is fine, but not allowing them to do it themselves seems... ridiculous?

You gotta eat, I know, but I'm wondering who it is that is ok paying for someone else to do the easiest part what they do for a living.

[zahlman]

> You gotta eat, I know, but I'm wondering who it is that is ok paying for someone else to do the easiest part what they do for a living.

I don't think that hosting is necessarily "part of what they do for a living" for people who write the code.

[theelous3]

I mean, if you can't host a box, hang up the gloves.

[regularfry]

I think you're underestimating the market here. It's not just extremely technically proficient people, it's the glitch people, the "custom myspace theme" people, possibly even the jsfiddle people.

The `/save` endpoint looks almost trivial. Knocking up a mimic wouldn't take much. The client libs will be interesting, but from the looks of things they're not quite there yet.

[theelous3]

> the glitch people

poor art students?

> the "custom myspace theme" people

they stopped existing a decade or more ago?

> possibly even the jsfiddle people

These aren't even a real group?

lol

[lcabral]

There is no reference to its license model...

[panphora]

Sorry about that, it's fixed now: MIT License

[mnhnthrow34]

Mavo seems pretty similar, saves to github, allows flipping the UI to admin/editor mode https://mavo.io/

I really liked this when it was launched and thought it had a great deal of potential when it launched. I think the main difference is that it's more focused on content-editing, not updating the code of the page itself.