So while using Auto-Layout can save an enormous amount of time creating UI, it definitely needs to be used by all designers that work on the file.
In terms of exporting to other parties such as Zeplin, we have a feature that turns off all the layout rules just before exporting. If you have tried it out here it is: https://animaapp.github.io/docs/v1/launchpad/faq.html#Export...
And thank you for the kind words!
We design very customized websites with complex layouts (box titles that are off-canvas etc).
I would love to reduce the amount of time that the developers need to realize a design. Our designers are usually much faster than the developers and they become the bottleneck in most projects. If the output is usable for production (and not a position:absolute nightmare), I would love to use something like this.
I don't care about incompatibilities with Zeplin and studio-wide usage as long as it has a good HTML and CSS quality (responsive, modular and clean).
OT: I like that the Yo app founder has a very short name, too. About Anima - would love to see you succeed! Would be happy to have such a tool.
The latter group often spend quite a bit of time fixing broken alignments etc when picking up a Sketch file that's used Anima. This means everyone is forced to install the plugin. The other issue then is when pushing to Zeplin, many elements aren't aligned as designed regardless of whether we've got your plugin enabled or not.
It doesn't happen every time, but it's happened enough times to warrant a studio-wide disabling of the plugin. I don't know if it's possible to easily solve this dependency issue in a future release, but if you can, we'll certainly start using it again.