callmevlad

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   by callmevlad 6y ago

   I absolutely don't think this is the case, and paradoxically something like Webflow actually creates more demand for coders and software engineers. Today, only 0.25% of the world knows how to write code, meaning the amount of software
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   by callmevlad 6y ago

   Yes, she is now, thank you for asking!
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   by callmevlad 6y ago

   (continued from OP) Now came the time to get users. We were targeting mostly designers and non-technical folks – so we posted it on Digg (heh, remember those days?), Reddit, and several designer-centric forums. But none of those posts got
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   Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

   1364 points by callmevlad 6y ago|182 comments
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   by callmevlad 7y ago

   Bingo :)
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   by callmevlad 7y ago

   Thank you so much for the kind words, and so happy to see that you've found Webflow to be so useful! Go Blanka!
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   by callmevlad 7y ago

   I honestly don't think it was a mistake the first time. We had almost nothing to show for what we wanted to build, it must have looked like a toy at the time. Our first application was more of a "fancier web inspector plugin"
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   by callmevlad 7y ago

   Thank you, Glen!
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   by callmevlad 7y ago

   Thanks Brandon!
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    by callmevlad 7y ago

    Yes, you can! https://university.webflow.com/article/embed One thing to note is that we're also creating visual abstractions over common things that are hand-coded with JS. For example, see our declarative GUI for
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    by callmevlad 7y ago

    That is, in fact, our main differentiator – and the main reason people choose Webflow. Check out this very diverse set of sites [1] that can be built with Webflow, this ability to visually develop any kind of custom layout/experience r
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    by callmevlad 7y ago

    Hey HN! I'm Vlad, CEO and one of the co-founders of Webflow. It was over 6 years ago now, a just several months a rejection email from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we h
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    by callmevlad 8y ago

    A quick clarification - the output of Webflow actually works across all modern browsers, but the design tool itself has more limited browser support. One of the biggest challenges with Firefox has been the inability to style native scrollba
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    by callmevlad 8y ago

    Here's a direct link to the playground that skips the landing page: https://webflow.com/css-grid-playground :)
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    by callmevlad 8y ago

    Hello again, HN! Almost 6 years ago to the day, I received an email from YC about our application being rejected – I still remember that feeling of almost wanting to give up, but also weirdly motivated to keep going and try again. Despite t
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    Show HN: Webflow Visual CSS Grid Playground(webflow.com)

    7 points by callmevlad 8y ago|1 comments
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    What we posted got shared in various other places (Designer News, Twitter, Reddit, etc), which might we why it was higher. But Hacker News was definitely the catalyst of it all.
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, Sam!
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    It’s rendered on the server with React + Apollo + GraphQL, just like all the other Webflow-powered websites out there! ;)
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    Yeah, the first year even after YC funding was very tough. Long story short: sold a car, borrowed a ton on those credit card write-yourself-a-check 2% balance transfer deals (thankfully had good credit to be able to do that), and withdrew e
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    Thanks! And sorry for the FF snag - we’re working on supporting Firefox later this year!
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about W
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    Inference engines: 5 examples with TypeScript, Flow and Reason(codeburst.io)

    2 points by callmevlad 9y ago|0 comments
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    It seems like you've posted in the wrong thread. Companies hiring should post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    > "But at the end of the day, you have to know CSS anyway" If you string-replace "CSS" with "assembly", most of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" [1] still seems to apply. People used
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    Webflow | Frontend & Backend Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE or REMOTE | Full Time | $100k-$160k + equity Heya HN! We launched here almost 5 years ago [0], and now we're looking to add a few more engineers across the stack to ro
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    by callmevlad 9y ago

    As far back as 4 years ago, it was standard practice to have revenue/growth/traction info published in TC - e.g. https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/20/y-combinator-demo-day-summ...
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    by callmevlad 10y ago

    Yep, I posted about Webflow's submission in a similar thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032849
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    by callmevlad 10y ago

    Status update from Google: https://twitter.com/GoogleforWork/status/776079823773044736
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    Gmail is down in US, Europe(cnet.com)

    1 points by callmevlad 10y ago|3 comments