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Co-founder here. My brother and I quit our jobs 7 months ago, and have been working on this day and night off of our savings since then.

The CSS Playground is a preview of our CSS styling tools, and we'll be adding some of our other components (layout, adding new elements, code export) soon. Currently, it only works in Chrome, but we're working hard to add Firefox support.



You beautiful bastards!! This is what I have been waiting for! Thanks!! Looking forward to using this when Saturday hits.


I just printed this comment out and pinned it to the wall. :)


Super awesome and very well done, just played with this for a couple minutes..love how you can choose the different platforms on the left and side and when you click on an element you can edit everything on the right hand side. How do you plan on monetizing this?


Thank you! It's still early, but we're planning on offering a subscription service to create/import sites and host them on our platform.


Looks great! One thing: Please don't force me to host my stuff with you. I'd rather pay twice to have the freedom to dl my designs. Also: Let me pay-as-I-go. As a designer I'd like to use this but I would not want to pay X bucks per month. I would pay X dollars per project.

Edit: After studying the video: I'll pay triple! Any thoughts on importing bootstrap?


Love the edit :)

We're actually big fans of the MailChimp pricing model (both pay-as-you go and monthly options), so it's a possibility.

About Bootstrap, the current demo already uses it for the non-visual elements (grid, etc), but we're still not sure about a whole-scale import yet. There are a lot of changes afoot with Bootstrap and Foundation (mobile-first being a big trend), so we're noodling on a ton of options.


Great work! I agree that importing a current site/design would be a killer feature. But, forcing to host is a non-starter...and would probably cause more issues for your company as well.


what about also basing it on saved designs? the first x are free, then it costs y for additional


My first impression: Adobe wants to buy this so bad...

I worked with Brackets team. I know which direction they are going and this is so inline with that.

Good luck.


Well, I guess that would explain the LinkedIn requests ;)


Very well done. Without looking at the docs (sorry) can you import existing css files and full-on frameworks? That's the #1 thing I'd be looking to use. jsFiddle is great but the window is so tiny... Webflow CSS looks even better.


Thanks! These are some of the questions we've been mulling over. We are working on importing existing CSS, but as far as importing the framework - that's another hurdle. We will be giving our designers either choices of frameworks to work from (bootstrap, foundation, etc) when creating a new website or our own framework - it all depends on the goal of the designer (to export the code or continue to use Webflow to build the website). Really, our personal goal is to give designers the best tools so they don't have to worry about frameworks. All they have to do is design and everything just works.


Will you guys be doing the whole startup process or bootstrapping this like Github? If you'd like help with your AngelList page, let me know. I'll help optimize your profile and get you some traction :) I love your product btw!!!!


Thanks Nick! We're bootstrapping pretty hard right now, but always open to options. I'd love to get in touch with you - can you send me an email?


Count me as another vote for exporting the data. I wouldn't hire your hosting, but I'd take a look at it if it was an independent tool.

Anyway, I'm signing for updates because I know people that would be interested on your current offering.


Wonderful work. The hardwork really shows.

If you don't mind me asking, what were your backgrounds before you starting working on this?


I'm not sure how far back you want us to go. Born in the freezing winter lands of the former USSR, Vlad and Sergie Magdalin embarked on a... oh, not that far? :)

I've been doing freelance web design on the side for a long time (actually bought the webflow.com domain in college for that purpose, going into a lot of debt in the process), then worked at Intuit for several years on an a social enterprise product. Studied CS at CalPoly, and spent a few years wandering through art school in SF before that.

My brother (Sergie) studied at UCSD and worked as a creative director for MuirSkate.com prior to starting work on Webflow. You can see his (now outdated) portfolio here: http://sergie.info/


I'd like to know too. This is an absolutely amazing tool, functional and built beautifully.


I've been dragging for the past couple months, but seeing this beautiful product has just pumped me up.

Freakin gorgeous!


Amazing stuff. You guys are some talented mofos. Can't wait to kick the wheels on this!


It seemed to work fine in Safari for me. Love the tool, great work


There are still a few quirks in Safari, but since it's Webkit it does mostly work. Thank you!


This is very impressive! I'd love to use this on new projects. I have some new projects coming up just around the corner. Do you have any ideas when you plan to release?


The "For Funsies" are great.


I tried it in Firefox and haven't found anything that doesn't work.




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