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(Re)launch HN: Weweb.io (YC W21) – visually build the front-end of your web-apps

31 points by raphael-gold ↗ HN
Last February, we launched on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248123 the first version of weweb.io http://www.weweb.io/. Since then, we made a slight pivot and wanted to let the community know about it.

The tool was initially meant to let people visually build static websites' front-ends on top of any headless system. Between March and this summer, we received tons of feedback which led us to turn WeWeb into a visual front-end builder for web-applications, not only websites.

It means that users can build their front-end with a Webflow like editor + add authentication (with Auth0), do CRUD with data from their back-end (SQL DB, REST API, Airtable) and create front-end workflows using custom variables and JS functions.

Also, when setting up collections of data in a project, users can now choose if the data will be dynamically fetched on the client-side or statically stored in the front-end.

It took us 5 months to turn WeWeb into this new version. Although it's still in beta, we think it's time to launch it publicly - and there's no better place than HN to get started :)

Please fire your comments at us, the last launch generated a tremendous response.

We'd love to hear about the difficulties you may have encountered when creating the front-end of a web-app (Time to build? Speed of iteration? Performance issues? Difficult back-end integration? Etc.). Based on your experiences, we could do the exercise of determining whether visual programming could have helped solve these problems.

We would also love to hear your feedback about the new version of the tool. You are welcome to give it a spin at https://www.weweb.io

15 comments

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julienchr
Hi team WeWeb! You're building an impressive platform !

Eager to follow your next steps ;)

Datkiri
It's great! Are you going to implement notion connector?
quentindty
Hey Datkiri,

Quentin from WeWeb here.

Notion's current API is still hard to play with. We were thinking about bringing a first connector to let users fetch data from their Notion databases for now, as formatting and fetching page's content is still hard to do.

Would that be a good enough use-case for you?

andrianaz
Been working a lot with WeWeb for the past year, the experience is getting better and better! One you use it, there's no way back. Keep going guys!
watus
Pretty sweet stuff, all the best to the WeWeb team!
top256
That's exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try

Thank you for working on that!

raphael-gold
Thanks! Looking forward to get your feedback :)
[dead] datapix
Amazing plateform and team. I think it will be my favorite no code builder.
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[dead] Stanvrj
That's niceee ;) I'm gonna tryyy
vtarondeau
We're currently looking forward to use intensively weweb.io to make our frogcast web application. It's a very specific front end (meteorological forecast). Weweb has done a very good job moving to webapps ! Congrats!
alexcircei
Really nice UI and I really emphasize with the problem.