AutoEmber

A visual design tool that makes real websites

64 followers

A visual design tool that makes real websites

64 followers

AutoEmber is a website builder inspired by popular visual design tools. You can make a custom website, end to end, without coding. It’s free to try, and you pay a subscription for a custom domain.

Free Options

Launch tags:Design Tools•Website Builder•Developer Tools

Launch Team

Dropbox Sign APIBuild eSignatures into your app with less work.

Promoted

Repaint

Maker

📌

Howdy all, I’m Ben. Me and my co-founder @izak_fritz are part of the Y Combinator S23 batch. I’m a former competitive strategy gamer. Izak used to build crypto trading platforms. A while ago, I designed a personal website in Figma. I designed the whole thing. I made 5 pages. I set up all the navigation links. Once I was done, I went to Izak and said “Ok, I finished my website, how do I put it up?” Imagine my disappointment when he told me… that’s not how it works! You have to code it! We're trying to change that. We want AutoEmber to feel like current design tools, but it makes real websites. We’ve been building AutoEmber nonstop for ~3 months. It’s still an early product. We don’t have hours of tutorials or hundreds of templates. But despite its flaws, we’re excited to show it off because now its possible to make great websites. You can try it for free at AutoEmber.com Feel free to reach out if you want help making a website.

Report

3yr ago

inlang IDE Extension (i18n)

Congrats on the launch!! Can I import my designs from Figma? What makes AutoEmber different from tools like Anima / TeleportHQ ?

Report

3yr ago

Repaint

Maker

@felixhaberle You can't import Figma designs yet. But its not super necessary, since AutoEmber does much of what Figma does. Unlike Anima (and Figma itself), the whole idea is that you don't have to export to code. AutoEmber makes and hosts real websites. Obviously other website builders do this too, but I don't think they capture the editor experience of design tools like Figma.

Report

3yr ago

inlang IDE Extension (i18n)

@ben_shumaker so you want to be the next Figma + Webflow?

Report

3yr ago

Repaint

Maker

@felixhaberle That's a good way to put it.

Report

3yr ago

Repaint

Maker

@ben_shumaker @felixhaberle Yes, that's the idea. We really like the user experience that Figma has. We think that a website builder that has the same feel as Figma will be awesome.

Report

3yr ago

@ben_shumaker @felixhaberle the main competitor for them is Framer, which has added an LLM to their website builder/hosting. There's a gold rush for this kind of thing right now, and it will be interesting to see who wins out.

Report

3yr ago

Respect for the super early launch. But the site's demo examples are too basic and not very good. Especially given Framer AI is fully featured as a "use an LLM to create a website design, edit, and host" competitor. You can't compete against the general end of the market, so you will need to find a better niche. The "it works like Figma!!!" pitch is curious because anyone that resonates with will expect to import their Figma files, which you can't do, and competitors can. So again, keep searching for that niche. Consider somewhere with a decent TAM that has a realistic SOM. Something like developer relations, for example, where "make an instant docs api" or similar gives you a first step into the market. Or a specific design community subset that you can align with deeply. Best of luck but everyone doing the "LLM but for websites" thing is hitting natural selection real soon, and the YC label won't help much if it's just a wrapper over a common LLM.

Report

3yr ago

This looks super cool! Congrats on the launch! How does you handle mobile sites?

Report

3yr ago

Repaint

Maker

@max_rumpf When you create a website using our pre-made page sections they handle all screen sizes by default. This makes it easy to have an entire website be responsive on all screen sizes.

Report

3yr ago

I will give it a go. Will it work with sketch files?

Report

3yr ago

Repaint

Maker

@jsteneros Not right now. We hope it won't be to necessary to import from other design tools. That's the idea; AutoEmber is a design tool itself. But if enough people want it, we could work on it.

Report

3yr ago

Looks extremely cool, I love the redesign!

Report

3yr ago

Langdock

Congrats on the launch, guys!

Report

3yr ago

1 2

Pros

Cons

Reviews