Famous - Design, publish, & track live web apps without coding

Famous is a familiar design tool, but with an edge. It allows Designers to push straight to Production. In essence many Designers can become that "Unicorn" that the design industry always talks about. There are some guidelines to follow with setting up your art boards, which help Famous publish out Progressive Web Apps, but other than that it works as advertised. There are no more surprises for the Designer once the project is rendered in code. Whatever he/she designed is what makes it to production. The great part about frameworks like Bootstrap was that it was able to get working code into Production quickly, however it did have some limitations, and caveats if you wanted to use it without heavy customizations. Now, with Famous, you can get the speed of using a framework, but the freedom of a custom design. As an early adopter of the software, I can also attest to the speed in which the software is enhanced. The team at Famous have been crushing bugs, and adding new features on a weekly basis. As their brand-star suggests, they are also highly transparent and very accessible. To be honest, I'm not sure they sleep. I recommend Famous for any Designer that doesn't know how, or have the time to code their own projects. Famous will get a bit pricey for individual designers once the product comes out of beta. I would recommend that you sign up for the early bird pricing, unless you have a large budget, or an agency to foot the bill.

Hello Product Hunters! 👋 Hey it's @stevenewcomb and @marklu from Famous and we are really excited to introduce you to Famous, a brand new design tool that enables you to import, design, animate, preview, and publish beautiful mobile, tablet, and desktop experiences without any coding at all. Famous the first end to end comprehensive design tool that requires no coding and produces beautiful professional experiences that work on every device. --- HERE'S WHAT WE HOPE YOU'll LOVE ABOUT US --- Beauty Beauty is most important cultural value. Our product, our culture, our code, and all of designs are centered around beauty. It is our most fundamental value and it drives everything we do. We hope that when you try Famous you can see that we worked tirelessly to make every animation, every interaction, and every feature in Famous beautiful. Empathy Our greatest strength is that we are a design lead company. Our CEO is a designer and has great empathy for the problems that designers face every day in their work flows. Our designers actively use nearly every design tool, prototyping tool, collaboration tool and also learn and use CGI tools and advanced music production tools to really understand art, design, and workflow from every possible angle. Thought Leadership While we listen to our community, we also see it as our responsibility to solve our communities greatest pain points with revolutionary thinking. For example, we understood that requiring a person to download a "viewer" app on a phone to see a preview was a major blocker to client relationships and team collaboration and we invented a live preview that enables designers not only show their creations to clients and team members without downloading any software, they could design live on any phone shared into the preview. Approachability We are designers and we love being part of the community. We really value being SUPER accessible. So, we've implemented Slack directly inside of Famous so you can interact directly with the design community, with our engineers, or our designers, and even our CEO any time you'd like. Magic One of the things you'll see in Famous is simply it's pure magic. For example our live preview let's you design live on your phone, your team's phones, your clients phones, and even at a live event to up to 250,000 phones without requiring anyone to install any preview software on their phones. It's just one of many magical moments packed inside our software. 🙏 We’d love to get some feedback and we're happy to answer questions! - Steve & Mark

I've been using Famous since early Alpha. The product itself is a game-changer for visual storytellers. The product rollout and alpha testing has been exemplary, with a design, QA and support team that is passionate and brilliant.

I haven't used it myself yet but our UI Designer is quite mesmerized with the possibilities of the app 🙂. Even if we just use it to prepare animations that our developers can later implement – it seems well worth it. Haven't tested everything yet, so can't give more specific feedback but Famous is definitely something that can make our product team's lives easier.

I'm a designer that really doesn't want to learn to code. I really like the ability of what Famous is offering but I'm too unfamiliar with whether or not it is something I can actually use to produce "apps" - a lot of the focus is on the impressive transitions. Is this a prototyping tool or a tool which will allow me to deploy actual finished web apps? Can I convert these web apps into native apps if need be? Looking forward to any feedback - I'm sitting on the fence with this one and don't want to miss out on the discount launch price!

Thank you for developing this wonderful product. I do have a "stupid" question. If I use Famous, even though it's working, live web experience, it's still just a prototype, right? In other words, it still needs to be developed to be fully functional and so on, right? How do you explain to all the stakeholders about ROI on the custom animation and how do you get developers to buying into doing extra customization which will require more time on their part to achieve?

Those animations look very slick! Reminds me a lot of the great UX of Keynote. I've got a few questions: - Is the focus mostly on mobile apps that are indistinguishable from native apps or is there support to build full websites? - Can a developer extend what's available or is this targeted towards non-technical makes only? - Is it possible to layout items similar to how the DOM or is it all absolutely positioned like Sketch/Figma, etc? - Are there any plans to make the editor work on the browser? Looking forward to trying it out soon!

Famous is a great tool for any Designer who either can't code, or doesn't have the time to code their designs.

Pros:

Offers something that other design tools don't.

Cons:

More capability for fringe cases like supporting Internet Explorer, or less common device sizes.

Amazing tool. As a graphic designer, to have one tool that Is able to accomplish all these tasks is a dream-come-true. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thanks for sharing! Been following it for a long time 1) Are these for creating 'promos & ads' or 'FUNCTIONAL micro apps'. In other words, can Famous be used to create snazzy landing pages to get emails, have a countdown counter, location aware map, product listing from a database or stripe-connected single product purchases. --- If so, is it possible to copy/paste code into it (like stripe.js) 2) Can we download the exported html/js/css and host/edit it ourselves? Is it human editable or is it all minified/jumbled. 3) Figma support?

Will Famous collaborate with Figma in future? Can't wait <3 <3 <3

Pros:

Easy tool to create stunning prototype with just a few click <3 <3 <3

Cons:

Can Famous import files from Figma? - maybe next upgrade because I'm a Figma lover.

I've been an Alpha user and so far it has really been amazing what we've been able to do with it. What's even more amazing is the jumps that the platform's capabilities make every time there's a new update. PROS: - It runs on Mac as well as Windows desktop - Previewing has been well thought out and works really well - Allows us to move from design to implementation rapidly, especially because iterations to designs instantaneously reflect in all the previews - The learning curve is not steep - The support for the industry standards (more import opportunities coming) - Their approach to components and working with other platforms (e.g. Stripe) is mind-blowingly impressive - Their responsiveness (not just the mobile responsive features), but the actually human beings as well. :) Most of my wishlist has been confirmed by the team to be on the way and most of the time I get an actual estimated release date. What's even better, it seems their mindset is to underpromise and then over-deliver. CONS: - Really looking forward to being able to integrate designs with APIs, dynamic content and coding - More import opportunities - More components and options to handle things like videos, etc. I recommend you jump in on the early subscriber option, you'll save a ton and I don't see what you would have to use.

Pros:

This is a very mature, capable, fast-moving and feature-rich platform that is definitely a game-changer.

Cons:

Adding support for APIs, Dynamic content and code will likely allow this platform to establish dominance.

Really unique and stunning UI capabilities.

Love the concept and the approach. A few questions come to mind to Steve and the team, Have you thought about SEO? From what I saw it looks like any text would be converted to a type of SVG format which is not clickable, wondering if there are any thoughts there? Can companies host their website on their own servers or it's still on your server?

If you are a designer that needs to publish quickly without relying on expensive developers, this is a must have! Even if you know code, there are a lot of cases where choosing Famous Studio will save you tons of time and be everything you need for publishing.

Pros:

Seriously next level features for designing and publishing rich interactive web apps with amazing animations.

Cons:

I’d love to see some APIs and ability for dynamic content in the future.

Incredible product.

Pros:

Intuitive

Cons:

None

Great to see Famous on Product Hunt, it's an awesome product!

A very promising platform !!! I run the beta version and it seems so smart and well organised. The only issue is that I can’t use my designs on photoshop and import PSD files for the moment. I am looking fwd though to get the Pro version and start using all the goodies. Would like to get some classes or tutorials if available :) Keep on being creative Mike

I've been using Famous since early alpha and it's already on track to replace most of my day to day tools. The great thing about Famous is the ability to deliver my designs from Sketch to production in a matter of minutes. I design a lot of landingpages, prototypes, websites and digital reports and Famous is the tool I've been looking for for years. The team behind Famous are great. They actively listen to their userbase and asks for feedback and opinions on new and upcoming features. It's very refreshing. The team is adding features almost every week and fixing bugs. A great product that's only getting better every week.

Hey Steve. I took Famous for a spin and wanted some questions answered about the upcoming components market. My email went unanswered though.