Awesomebox: a new platform for modern front-end design & development

Upvoted because this sounded interesting: "Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration. Awesomebox lets you create and collaborate like you would in the physical world, where it's easy to show people the real thing without having to ask someone to run code locally, install dependencies, or configure a staging server. What Heroku is to back-end development, Awesomebox is to front-end development - a platform that lets you focus on what you do best."

I couldn't find that on mobile without signing up, you might want to add that to an about or FAQ page.

mattinsler6• 13 years ago

Thanks Tyler! Just pushed and added it to the homepage. Here's the link:

http://awesomebox.co/vision

oceanplexian• 13 years ago

While it may sound interesting this says absolutely nothing about the product.

"Our idea is simple - that anyone on your team should be able to use any iteration of your app or website with zero configuration."

Who is my team and what is an iteration? Zero-configuration what?

"show people the real thing without having to ask someone to run code locally, install dependencies, or configure a staging server"

So....a web hosting platform?

"What Heroku is to back-end development, Awesomebox is to front-end development"

So....a web hosting platform?

"a platform that lets you focus on what you do best"

I'm best at sleeping, drinking beer, and criticizing vague PR statements. In that case I guess they're right!

mattinsler6• 13 years ago

Thanks for the feedback - this is really more a case of "two hackers trying to describe what we're building" than a "vague PR statement".

I think where we're struggling is narrowing down exactly what we do, without being pigeonholed into "just another hosting platform". We're really excited to talk to the many people who did signup and learn more from them, so that we can get better at this overtime. Thanks for being a "BS filter" and telling us where we're wrong - if you have more thoughts to share, we'd love to hear from you. contact@awesomebox.es

RokStdy• 13 years ago

I don't really understand what you do. I will freely admit that I may be dumb, or not the target market, but I don't get it.

I don't mean to say this to be discouraging, I am interested enough to wonder what y'all are up to so at least you've piqued my interest (admittedly not a huge prize, but I'm not trying to be a turd).

mattinsler6• 13 years ago

Totally understand the confusion - this is the first time we've put this out into the world, and it's great to get feedback about which parts are or aren't clear. Here's a bit more on what we're building:

http://awesomebox.co/vision

If that sounds interesting, we'd love to talk to you about the pain points you have building front-ends and UIs. Feel free to send us an email at contact@awesomebox.es

Awesomebox: a new platform for modern front-end design & development

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