Hey! Looking forward to give you access to our product. We are working hard to launch Zecoda in the next weeks. We’d love to hear from you and get your help to shape our product before we officially launch. Drop us a line with any feedback (or questions) that you have for us.
Zecoda allows you to turn your Sketch files into front-end code automatically.
We built Zecoda to help accelerate our product development. We are using Zecoda to easily go from a Sketch file to a fully responsive web project.
As front-end developers, we often found ourselves demotivated with the design hand-off process. It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. We started to see an uncomfortable pattern when refactoring or reusing old code for new projects to accelerate the workflow.
Sure, there are great software to help us with this problem (looking at you Zeplin) but it still require us to look at each layer or component individually. Not that fun IOHO.
We truly believe automating repetitive tasks is the way forward for software. With this in mind we are fully dedicated to:
- Automate software development repetitive tasks
- Remove the (stupid) hurdle from design to code
- Accelerate product development
We are working hard to launch Zecoda's platform in the next weeks. We’d love to hear from you and get your help to shape our product before we officially launch. Drop us a line at john@zecoda.com with any feedback (or questions) that you have for us.
If you think Zecoda can help your workflow, request early access below.
I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving an actual problem. If you look for the next ten years and our kids start to crate Apps and Websites with these tools, we can state with some confidence it will happen. Don't you agree?
I want to launch a discussion on the future of software development. It’s a fact that front-end development will be deprecated in a near future with tools like Webflow, Squarespace or Wix. This will mean that the future of front-end development will be made by designers or anyone with good sense of style. My question for debate is: shouldn’t we already have a tool that allowed us to build software on a visual / no code matter?
A non technical founder that don’t want to waste one year learning to code should have tools available to build software without knowing any programming language? Makes sense or is this just utopian?
"Waste" and "one year" are horrible assumptions behind this question.
What about "wasting" 4 years of high school and "wasting" a few years of college? Why should someone with an idea be hampered by wasting this time? One year is nothing, and even if it were a long time, it's not a "waste" -- you come out of it with a skill that is needed today, ie if you want to be part of the technical side of the company you wish to found.
Secondly, a mere one year of study is not going to result in a skilled practitioner. You will be able to make prototypes.
Digging a little deeper:
> *It's a fact"
No, it isn't. FE development is still not a "mature" space and Wix and the like only offer rather trivial customizations to a well-defined and constrained environment. What you describe as FE development is really content creation and styling, not "development".
Now that I've poo-poo'd the thought, in counterpoint do you know about kintone and the like? There's an entire ecosystem of no-code app development systems out there already. Some of them probably qualify as "mature".
Interesting point. I have to agree 100%. No matter how you create an application it will always have to have code. Even if for the user it may seem a "no-code" app.
I agree with you "waste" is a strong word when talking about learning new concepts.
On the FE side I stated it is a fact because of the revenue numbers of Wix and Squarespace (both around $500 Million / year). These numbers establish that they are solving a problem, i.e. non-technical people creating and managing their own applications. I can see my kids creating their apps and sites on a visual base...
Please don't reply to people with their usernames; HN's threaded comments make that redundant, and it breaks the sense of normal conversation in much the way that repeating people's names out loud would.
Despite all learnings, the cold reality is that this was a failed startup… but I’m trying it again. This time I’m doing things differently.
Hope you guys had a good read and learned a thing or two :) Let me know if you have any questions.