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Re:Apply HN: Protoship.io – generate entire front end (HTML/... by jasim on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:11AM (#11445858)
- Fifty percent is already huge. We're starting there, but our larger goal is to make web development easier and faster. This is but a long journey, and we’re doing this one niche/tool at a time.

- We already have a rudimentary bi-directional flow working: from design to code, and from live web applications back to design. We call this Teleport, and here is its demo: https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/introducing-protoship-...

- Not yet decided on pricing.

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Re:Apply HN: Protoship.io – generate entire front end (HTML/... by nojvek on Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:20PM (#11449375)
Saw the video. Its website -> sketch. Seeing the sketch -> website would be great.

Why aren't you guys charging for it right away? That's going to give a good indication whether designer/devs are willing to pay out of pocket.

i.e Give 10 free conversions to new signups so users get a feel whether it solves their problem. There after its $5 per conversion or whatever amount you feel is worth.

Ages ago I used to convert psds to html by hand. There was this Russian tool to convert psd to html for $3 per conversion. It was my best friend. It got me 50% there and then I had to do the rest by hand.

Have you looked into conversion by OCR techniques? i.e someone pastes a screenshot, you recognize the margins, paddings, text, colours, font and spit out html/css

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