Zecoda
AI
design to code generation
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
14 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 22 critical, out of 69 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Idea: 7 for, 7 againstExecution: 2 for, 7 againstPricing: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting approach to a hard problem
From 2 comments
This is a really interesting project, thanks for sharing. I think it's going to be difficult to get the model to the point where it generalizes well for lots of different…
markbnj on HNFounder here. As a front end developer, I turn design files into front-end code regularly. But it's a repetitive and demotivating task. It takes time, lots of meetings and boring…
johndamaia on HN
Useful for client iteration and beta sites
From 2 comments
Have you worked with clients? If you have a good producer/leader yes you can get a lot done. But many times this just happens as A. Client approves design B. You build the Beta…
sprafa on HNDepending on the customer, that could still be helpful. I've worked with people where you can ask them very specific questions over and over and get nowhere - the only way…
wlesieutre on HN
Objections
Meetings and ambiguous designs not solved by automation
From 2 comments
It takes time, lots of meetings and boring back and forth questions. I want to change that. So I tried to automate this process. The reason for all the meetings and questions is…
onion2k on HNThe point I made in my reply is that this tool won't save you from those meetings and rounds of changes. As it'll speed up the coding side of the iterative development process by…
onion2k on HN
Pricing too high for what is delivered
From 3 comments
Since it is completely automated and the code is doing all the processing, why is the price so high and why is there even a charge is per artboard? Sketch is like 1/10th of that
forthispurpose on HNYour rates are higher than paying someone (offshore) to convert the artboards - why? Should be much cheaper if it's automated.
sombremesa on HNThis looks promising, however, I'm not sure about the pricing model, $99 per month (IF billed annually) for 10 designs (10 artboards)?
dudado on HN
Demo output not convincing; code needs engineer cleanup
From 2 comments
Hi John, great idea but the demo didn't really convince me. How much of the system relies on engineers cleaning up the code? And I can't get past the fact that it becomes a…
gitgud on HNI’m sorry but this feels really hand-wavy to me. What did you feed your model for it to learn how to build vuejs sites? Vuejs template language is total chaos if you haven’t put…
potench on HN
Privacy concerns from third-party tracking scripts
From 1 comment
Sorry to be that guy, but fullstory, google tagmanager, and hotjar all on the same page, without any indication to the user that their every move is being tracked. This site is…
katsura on HN
Requests
Show example input and output
From 2 comments
It would help if there were examples of input and output—images of Sketch files and HTML pages that were generated (without manual fixes, if that's an option in your offers).
aasasd on HNThis is really cool, it is really hard to evaluate the value of Zencoda without the code output of the demo. I get that the full product is not ready but being able to see the…
stormtv on HN
Try-it access rather than early-access signup
From 2 comments
From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask…
diggan on HNHey, why not give something for people to try. I know[1] it takes (GPU) resources and may give it a hug of death but its much better to let at least some people try it out and…
mkagenius on HN
Cheaper or one-off pricing
From 2 comments
Hi. Wish you had one-off pricing. I'm sure there are agencies that do that kind of volume. I would love to use your service a few times a year.
gotrythis on HNSince it is completely automated and the code is doing all the processing, why is the price so high and why is there even a charge is per artboard? Sketch is like 1/10th of that
forthispurpose on HN
Questions
How the deep learning model works
From 1 comment
Hey john. Congrats on this, this is very interesting. From someone interested in ML/AI, can you explain just a bit more how the deep learning works?
xcubic on HN
Whether the output is truly automatic and how much manual cleanup is needed
From 2 comments
Is the home page itself built with this? Can you share the input file and an estimate on how long it took to work with the output to make it production ready?
llarsson on HNHi John, great idea but the demo didn't really convince me. How much of the system relies on engineers cleaning up the code? And I can't get past the fact that it becomes a…
gitgud on HN
Which stack and whether React is planned
From 2 comments
What stack did you use?
gilbertmpanga12 on HNSurprised it’s Vue and not React. Vue is great, but there’s a lot of activity in the Sketch <-> React space, for example AirBnb’s Lona [0]. This could fit in nicely. [0]…
mattkevan on HN
Alternatives named
Yotako
From 1 comment
Looks like Yotako...https://www.yotako.io/ Whats the difference? Yotako seems to be in the deadpool though...havn't seen anything new in ages. Hard to scale this stuff.
247yak on HN
Avocode
From 1 comment
Seems a bit similar to what Avocode was/is trying to solve. Haven't followed them closely recently, but seems like they pivoted from pure design->code tool to design &…
egman_ekki on HN
Airbnb Lona
From 1 comment
Surprised it’s Vue and not React. Vue is great, but there’s a lot of activity in the Sketch <-> React space, for example AirBnb’s Lona [0]. This could fit in nicely. [0]…
mattkevan on HN
Pix2Code and Sketch2Code research
From 1 comment
It's really great to see more and more companies emerging in the market from these initial ideas/PoC: [1] Pix2Code: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07962 [2] Sketch2Code:…
ReDeiPirati on HN