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Jason Dainter

Weld - Be creative without code – Interactive content tool

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Create visual, animated, interactive content for any platform:

• Free-form design tool

• Embed in your website

• Responsive design

• Interactivity and animations

• Analytics, A/B-testing and scheduling

• Collaborate with your team

In February 2015, we launched v1 of Weld, then more of a prototyping tool. Today, it’s much more than that.

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Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
Hi all, I'm the founder of Weld. The idea of Weld came from my own struggling with web and app technologies for quick prototyping. When I started building web/mobile apps in 2006, I was really frustrated with the tools and processes involved just to build a simple proof of concept. Having a Visual Basic and Flash background, the notion of going back to plain coding just felt off. After years of dwelling on this problem and procrastinating, I started working on this in late 2013. I split up the problem in three problems/phases/pieces: 1. interaction design 2. visual design 3. interactivity. So, I started interviewing UX designers, and found that 1) non-interactive wireframes made little sense to their clients, 2) there rarely was time/budget for real prototyping, and 3) responsive design was really painful with their existing toolset. With these problems in mind, we started building Weld v1.0. Much more to come. Hope you like it! Let me know if you have any questions! Tom. (@tomsoderlund)
Spencer Wise
Looks awesome! How does it compare to InVision?
Henric Malmberg
Weld
Maker
@spencerrwise Invision allows you create clickable prototypes out of a finished design, whereas in Weld you create it from scratch. The main benefit of this, in my opinion, is the ability to create responsive prototypes that adjust themselves to your screen size.
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@spencerrwise To add to what @hanktard and @ampeyrou just said, a 3rd difference is, since you don't have to export and upload from a separate design software, you can iterate faster. Try designing in Weld while previewing the results on a phone - in real time! It's pretty cool.
Greg Gilbert
Really cool product! Another great Swedish startup.
Taylor Cohen
I've tried so many of these ben that I don't code. What's different?
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@ttayl0r We claim to be the fastest tool to get to a clickable prototype. Also, our responsive design tools are strong.
Ryan Gum
Teachable
@ttayl0r @tomsoderlund can confirm, I tried it yesterday and the responsive feature was a real 'wow moment'!
Henric Malmberg
Weld
Maker
Hello everyone! I'm the CTO and co-founder of Weld. I've been a proponent of the open web since I was a kid and for me this is all about allowing people of all different skill levels to publish ideas online. Creating a prototype and sharing it with somebody should never be more than 15 minutes away! For techies: We built this on Angular and a lot of websockets that communicate with a few microservices mostly consisting of node.js processes. AMA! (but especially technical questions :)
Martin Otyeka
@tomsoderlund Game changing product Tom. Especially for the non-technical among us who like to conceptualize product designs but cant seem to navigate through photoshop or even sketch. I use sketch for design then Invision for interactive demos. Weld replaces both
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@otymartin Thanks Martin! Yes you totally nailed it; with Weld you can replace two other apps and iterate faster.
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@otymartin Martin, that quote “I use Sketch for design, then InVision for interactive demos. Weld replaces both.” is amazing - may I use it on Twitter etc?
Martin Otyeka
@tomsoderlund You may. glad I can help. Thanks for a great product, ill be sure to sure it for future projects.
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@otymartin Thanks Martin!
Brandon Lipman
I love the concept. It's much more responsive than some of the other web based prototyping softwares I have used. The process to link screens is super easy. One thing I have always wondered about prototyping tools is why they don't allow text input fields to be functional. Example: A login screen where it asks user for his/her name, next screen could be onboarding and may say "Welcome ___Name___". Can this be done in Weid?
Henric Malmberg
Weld
Maker
@lipmanb Thats a great question! And the short answer is no, it can't be done in Weld today. But our vision is that you will be able to build more and more complete app as we add interactivity options such as scripting to the tool. So in a later version your idea will be doable.
Brandon Lipman
@hanktard Awesome, I have always wondered why this has not been done in prototyping apps. One thing I noticed, for me the text in the interface is quite small and slightly hard to read. Looking forward to seeing how Weld progresses.
Tom Söderlund
Weld
Maker
@lipmanb We just released Weld v3 - action blocks, so now you can! https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Ali R. Tariq
The Design of Influence: How to Craft Products that Move People
Awesome first look, Tom. The onboarding experience is great too, which is where a lot of these prototyping tools lose me. Are you guys planning on adding mobile gestures as well? Also, maybe it's the traffic, but whenever I try to share my app to my phone, it "disconnects" from the Weld servers. Will check again later!
Henric Malmberg
Weld
Maker
@alirtariq Yes we are under some load right now, but I just shared a sketch with myself via SMS and everything including live updaing worked as it should. Please try again or describe in detail what happens in the in-app-support-chat. Edit: I forgot. Yes, we will add mobile gestures like swipe soon. It fit's in really well now that we added screen transitions.
Jason Dainter
Hunter
@alirtariq @hanktard the product hunt effect :-)
Alexander Horré
Just tried it. Fantastic job guys. I can see myself using this.
Brandon Elwood
Famous Movie Props
Cool. Any chance we'll see an iOS version? I've been using Marvel.
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