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Graphite - Create live websites just like in a graphic editor

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Graphite Space is a free online website builder carefully crafted with web designers’ best interests in mind. Use familiar graphic editor tools to create professional grade web pages and publish them online without working with HTML, CSS or JavaScript code.

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Carlo Thissen
It looks incredibly slick and I'm already in love with the look & feel 🔥 On a more practical side - what's the biggest difference to tools like Webflow?
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@carlo_thissen Thank you for your support. As a designer, I am very happy to hear that! 🙌 At first, we really admire Webflow. This great tool helps to solve many problems and cure designer's pains. What really distinguishes Graphite is that our product emphasizes visual editing and creativity, whereas Webflow is more on the code-heavy side (in my humble opinion, at least): – Graphite does not have a steep learning curve, allowing you to create web sites with little to no knowledge of HTML and CSS. – Settings for element size, margins, padding etc., as well as the means to create a basic grid structure in Graphite are made as visual tools available for use right on the canvas. – Graphite can boast a much more concise, intuitive and user-friendly interface: we have fewer settings, toggles, buttons and levers than Webflow, while allowing you to create web pages of equal complexity. – Graphite offers a much more familiar approach to the design system and visualizing your ideas in general, and it lets you implement previously familiar tools and techniques that you'd normally use in your favorite graphic editor. Basically, if you're a designer and you prefer visual editing over working with code, we're pretty sure you'll have a lot of ‘oh yasss’ moments while exploring Graphite. At least that's what we’re hoping for!
Carlo Thissen
@followsummer thanks for the in-depths answer! Can definitely sign the learning curve issue with Webflow. Looking forward to dive deeper into Graphite and some other visual builders on the weekend. The first impression is great!
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@carlo_thissen Thanks a million! Can't wait to hear what you think 🙂
Oleg Pavlov
Maker
Here we go guys! Let's do this like absolute rockstars! ⭐
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@olepav Forward to the stars! 🚀
Vivek
wow this is a nice product for creating beautiful websites
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@vivekweb2013 Thank you! Appreciate the support! 🙂
Oleg Pavlov
Maker
@vivekweb2013 Many thanks!!)
Ruben Wolff
Great product, it looks quite easy to use, which is pretty cool when you're intimidated by code. I'm just wondering how it will fight against competitors like Wix
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@rubenwolff Hey Ruben! Thank you so much for your comment, I'm glad you like our product. As for 'fighting against competitors' – we actually appreciate the competition and diversity this market has to offer. Wix, for one, has done a lot of good for the industry, so it would be a shame to 'fight' them 😄 That is a valid concern, however, and I put my faith in the fact that, compared to the competition, Graphite emphasizes visual editing, comfort and design consistency. So if you're a designer, chances are you'll like Graphite better than any other tool out there. At least that's what we're counting on 🙂
Farabe Ahamed
Wow, Looks amazing
Oleg Pavlov
Maker
@farabe_ahamed90 Thank you)
Ricardo Cruz
Congrats for the launch Viktor! 👏🏻
Oleg Pavlov
Maker
@ricardocruz Many thanks from all Team!)
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@ricardocruz Thanks a million! 🥳
richard stout
Hey Viktor, Your hearts and souls = awesome opportunities for users. Thanks so much for this builder, it's intuitive, familiar and instantly employable. Looking forward to getting started on my first project with Graphite Space! Thanks to you and your team - Congratulations ...and it's free!!!
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@richard_stout A ton of thanks for you for such a warm-hearted comment! We're thrilled to supply our users with new design and creativity tool and provide you guys with quality experience! Anxious to know more details about your journey with Graphite.
Ray Chew
just registered an account and play around with your web builder, one word to you - cool ^^ your builder is similar to Wix but easier to use than Wix a lot, for a non-tech like me who hate coding, your builder is easy to get started, choose template I like > click > change > adjust > done, no need to study any tutorial or waste time to figure it out how to do this and do that. if I want to build a website from scratch, base on what the client wants ( fully custom ) I will choose WordPress > Elementor if I want to create a nice landing page or static page within one or a few hours to be done, definitely will choose Wix or your builder Graphite ( when hand over the website to the client, they also very accessible to the builder to change what they want ) Conclusions ( base on my opinions ) : Wix - now is No.1 ( easy to use builder ) Webflow - too complex for non-tech guy or beginner Swipe pages - similar to WordPress Elementor also need to take some times to figure it out WordPress Elementor - need time to study WordPress and its builder Graphite - if you can combine with shuffle.dev ideas future sure No.1 builder in the market
Oleg Pavlov
Maker
@raygorgor Thank you, Ray, for your opinion!)
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@raygorgor Thank you for such a detailed comment, as well as for paying attention to other awesome products in the industry! We appreciate your feedback and suggestions, and the team is definitely inspired by your forecast – makes us look good, even if it’s in the future :)
Rotem A
Hey Graphite Team, thanks for giving the community the opportunity to try this product at such a stage! At first glance I was surprised, as I was excpecting to see more, but after playing the interface for a while I figured out that there's actually quite some stuff under the hood. Few things I want to mention before giving macro impression: 1. The fact that I have to click the settings icon or pick which pannel to open in order to change things is nice, but I do think that making the right panel visible all the time/only once selecting an element/toggle to decide, would be helpful so that the user won't have to re-open it when selecting different elements. 2. I'm also missing the option to just add a navigation bar instead of building one from scarch. the alignment of the buttons was not intuitive for me. 3. Speaking of buttons, changing the color was kinda hard to find (maybe because I had to change the panel from the former element). I did get the idea of keeping the colors constant/design system/components, but I had to search for it and the colors panel is not clear enough what is what, for me. I also couldn't find where I decide on the button state. Putting these little things aside - It looks very neat, clean, modern, keeping up with the technologies and promising. Your roadmap looks very intersting and even exciting (headless CMS!) but at the moment it feels like it is not 'baked' enough to pick it as a website builder for anything complex - maybe for simple landing pages or so. BUT just for the record, I played it only around 20 minutes so i'm sure it can do a lot more than that! The code and preformances looks good, and I would be happy to check it up again in the future to see how it evolves. Wishing you a lot fun on the way and looking forward!!
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@rotem_abir Many thanks for such a thorough comment! That's exactly the feedback we're hoping for, and it will no doubt have a massive positive impact on the product – I mean it, we're taking these suggestions into one of our next sprints 🙂 1. This comment is spot on. Opening the panel every time is annoying indeed – it's more of an old architecture legacy that needs to be fixed. 2. So true. Almost every web site has a menu, so it's only fair that we add a new 'menu' element that users expect to see. 3. Also true. The current method we have for changing the color of a button is... unconventional 😄 This functionality can be found in the 'Variant' settings, which I agree is not an obvious place to look for it. We plan on relocating color settings to the overall settings tab in the near future. We also have great plans for expanding our functionality to help our users design genuinely sophisticated web sites. Thank you so much for your kind words and wishes!
Samanta Smit
Good job, team! Very cool! Congrat
Viktor Kadnikov
Maker
@samanta_smit Thanks a lot, Samanta 🙌
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