Introducing Bootstrap Studio

Great job, it looks really useful and something I would be interested in using in the future. Some feedback...<p>1 - The webpage could make it more obvious that the paid for version is a NodeJS based application. It took me a little time to work this out because I read the start of the page and immediately went to the online demo.<p>2 - Provide an option to choose between Bootstrap 3 and 4, even when 4 is fully released there will still be people stuck on 3 for quite some time. The ability to create&#x2F;edit projects with either will help you a lot.<p>3 - Raise you price to at least $99. Any professional freelancer or design company will not think twice about this price point and can see it saves a lot more than this in time on just the first project. I think you should be aiming at professionals and not hobbyists. Odd though it sounds, the less people pay the more they complain about a product and the more demanding the support they ask for. Trust me, you could offer this for $10 and someone will still complain that your 100&#x27;s of hours of hard work is worth only $5.<p>4 - Always specify a time limit of a special offer. This creates a sense of urgency and is the reason that offers work. Mention on your site when the offer expires, otherwise people don&#x27;t know and so they will wait. Then they will miss the deadline and are either upset decide not to buy because they wanted the cheaper price.<p>5 - If you have a roadmap of additions then mention some of the changes to be released in the next year. This shows it is being actively developed and some of the new features might be the ones people are waiting for before buying.

I know this is a Bootstrap tool, which means it has baggage.<p>But if something like this existed for email, I would buy it in a snap. I have yet to find a desktop tool that can make decent responsive html emails, and that is one of the main strengths that Bootstrap should offer. Skip the JQ efects.<p>Perhaps you can make a email mode that is JS free, strips out the unused CSS, and inlines the remaining rules?

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingendo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pingendo.com&#x2F;</a> : good free alternative.

Looks super cool and very useful. If anyone thinks that $25 or $50 is expensive for 3 installs, they are just being disingenuous. That&#x27;s less than most devs charge their clients per hour and tools like this easily save a few hours on each project.<p>And good to see another Bulgarian venture :-)

Wow this is gorgeous! Nice work.<p>I have a product in a similar space, Beaver Builder (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wpbeaverbuilder.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wpbeaverbuilder.com</a>). A few differences being that it&#x27;s an in-browser tool and it&#x27;s a WordPress plugin.<p>Who is your target customer? Are you hoping to improve workflows for frontend developers or enable non-developers to build web pages? Also, what are your thoughts on maintaining a Bootstrap Studio site?<p>FWIW, we hit a nice niche with freelance web designers and web agencies. Drag and drop streamlines the development process and it also enables more tech-savvy clients to jump in and make their own edits and updates.

Is there a big market for WYSIWYG apps for developers? I think this is a great application but might it be better targeted toward non-technical people? Remember iWeb? This reminds me of a more developer-centric, flexible version of that. But no developer would actually build with it. It was for the people who now use Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace for their websites.<p>Developers should be able to put together a Bootstrap front end just as easily in code and probably prefer working in code.<p>Maybe there&#x27;s a huge developer market for this and I just happen to not know anyone who&#x27;d be into this.

IMO this is another example of unnecessary fragmentation of the dev tools ecosystem. Why do we need a whole IDE for Bootstrap? Can&#x27;t we instead make a plugin for an existing IDE to accomplish the same thing?

I salute this initiative. A free 3-7 days trial would be so welcomed though, dispite the online demo which I assume it is not entirely the same as the desktop app. Looks good otherwise, and love the comments from other people as well. Love the price too.

There is one more alternative that I tried before. Decent. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinegrow.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pinegrow.com</a>

I find the existence of this kind tool to be strange, but that may just be because of my preferred way of working. Despite the fact that i&#x27;m not hugely keen on Bootstrap, I recognise that people find it useful. But do people really love it so much that they build an ecosystem and actual paid apps around it? It just seems like such a weird thing to focus your energy on.

Not Bootstrap specific but Macaw 1.6 [1] is now a free alternative since they were bought by InVision.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;macaw.co" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;macaw.co</a>

This looks promising but I would need a free trial before paying for it.

Wow. Very impressed. I&#x27;m a big fan of Webflow (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webflow.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;webflow.com</a>). I would love if I could use Bootstrap in Webflow&#x27;s visual designer but this is great.

Love it.<p>I&#x27;m very bad at website design and at 25$ this is a no brainer . Can see myself using this for small websites

Pretty. I hope it doesn&#x27;t mangle markup like GUI tools (that tackled the problem) in the distant past did. Frontpage or Netscape Composer anyone?

This is fantastic. Got more done in 5 minutes than I usually do in an hour of trial and error.<p>Any keyboard shortcuts available? At least a shortcut for Duplicate would be good.<p>Edit: Shortcuts here &gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrapstudio.io&#x2F;pages&#x2F;keyboard-shortcuts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrapstudio.io&#x2F;pages&#x2F;keyboard-shortcuts</a>

$25! Thank you! I&#x27;m buying me a copy right now! Someone was saying you should charge $99 as freelance developers would buy it at that price, but as a hobbyist who $99 is how much I spend on almost monthly groceries because of the exchange rate, I&#x27;m glad that the price is at reach.<p>From looking at the site, this looks awesome, especially since I can import my own Bootstrap themes. I haven&#x27;t used a visual CSS editor in over half a decade, and after the page refreshes that I spent time on just last night, I hope this will be a great tool for me to use.<p>Thanks again :)<p>EDIT: I see it comes bundled with Bootswatch themes, this is awesome as I use some of them! Great tool so far!

I&#x27;m not a web dev, but I had a plan for some time now for a small sideproject and this seems it has a potential to accelerate things for me. Does it generate fairly vanilla&#x2F;idiomatic bootstrap? I would take the generated html to the backend, but if I later decided to edit html directly I wouldn&#x27;t want to deal with weirdness left by your software. What are your payment options? They seems to be hidden behind email form. Any weird drm? I seem to format&#x2F;reinstall OS more frequently and wouldn&#x27;t want to deal with problems arising from the software refusing to run when I change my distro.

Looks like a very useful product, I&#x27;ve tried and want to use these kinds of tools.<p>So far I tried Pinegrow and Bootply, I&#x27;m certainly going to give this one a try.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pinegrow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pinegrow.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootply.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bootply.com&#x2F;</a>

I just made the purchase.<p>This tool will hopefully make my life easier. I&#x27;ll still code everything carefully by hand but I have a hard time imagining how the UI will look like and I find myself spending quite some time coding and F5 repeatedly only to be disappointed by the result.<p>These thigs come with experience. I believe people that dedicate their time mostly to UI get real good and would not need a tool like this but for me I believe it&#x27;ll do wonders.

This looks really cool. It seems like you have a lot of granular control over the elements and layout. That being said, most of the websites I build these days don&#x27;t need this level of customization. I&#x27;ve found that Blocs[1] is more my tempo. I just really want to organize structure at a high level, add content, polish, and export.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blocsapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blocsapp.com</a>

Just a FYI, Chrome is giving me a warning on the HTTPS certificate (vulnerable SHA1 certificate), try to get one from LetsEncrypt or make an update to your StartSSL one.

Cool. When I added a new page (untitled.html) and renamed it the page name change wasn&#x27;t reflected back. Also, There appears to be a page tab for the page editor, but I&#x27;m only getting one tab while I have more than one page defined in the design.

I have enjoyed layoutit.com for simple free wireframing.<p>You can define your layout pretty quickly if you have ever made a bootstrap layout before.<p>I know there are other alternatives as well but does anyone have any significant experience with this?Is this a lot better, is this the best one out there?

Trial is crucial before buying.

Part of me really wants to hand this to the users I program an internal webapp for and let them spec the basic layout of the the pages, another part of me knows that is a no good, very bad, horrible idea. :&#x2F;

I can&#x27;t believe the negativity in the comments.<p>This looks great and I&#x27;ll probably be looking to purchase this. I assume that this would help me out when i&#x27;m fiddling around trying to make stuff look good in react.

bought it a short while ago<p>please tell me there&#x27;s a code you are using for that wonderful checkout. email--&gt;entering postal code --&gt; entering card --&gt; done.<p>any reason why you are capturing postal code first?<p>I will post another comment with a review later<p>is this built using electron? where can you find a boiler template project complete with installation wizard?<p>edit: just realized you can&#x27;t even import HTML files or I&#x27;m dumb. I clicked open but it only lets you select some proprietary file. This is a HUGE MINUS because I was looking forward to editing existing bootstrap template and you can&#x27;t!

i think this can be achieved by a bootstrap snippet set; a decent text editor with live reload&#x2F;files watch setup.<p>a dedicated app is not needed.

We&#x27;ve been using this for about 6 months to bang out prototypes very quickly. Happy with it so far.

It looks really interesting<p>---<p>But:<p>&quot;Bootstrap Studio is a desktop application filled with powerful features.&quot;<p>That line tells me absolutely nothing about it

What CSS framework are they using for the app [0]? It doesn&#x27;t look like Bootstrap.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrapstudio.io&#x2F;demo&#x2F;assets&#x2F;css&#x2F;styles.css" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bootstrapstudio.io&#x2F;demo&#x2F;assets&#x2F;css&#x2F;styles.css</a>

Just bought it after being quite impressed with the online demo, and figured it was worth a shot for $25.<p>First impression after downloading: an unsigned OS X app? Really? This is commercial software; it&#x27;s not that expensive to get a dev certificate.

Which is the OS they use in the video?

Looks like a watered down Webflow

great resource for developers to work on bootstrap. It would have more been interesting if free version was available.

Only Chrome? Firefox please!

&gt; Sorry, our online demo only works in Google Chrome for now.<p>Sorry, if you don&#x27;t bother supporting Firefox or Safari, then I don&#x27;t bother looking your website either.<p>(No, I don&#x27;t ask you to support IE 8)<p>Edit: Didn&#x27;t know it was desktop application. Explanation below.

Guys you need to get a trial version up ASAP. Few people will risk real money on a tool from an unknown team without being able to try it out.<p>Now you&#x27;re just wasting your marketing..

It&#x27;s unfair of me, but I&#x27;m always turned off when I see a desktop app that works on multiple platforms. That irrationally soured my first impression, because I think it otherwise looks like a great tool.

This looks very nice. But please move the video to the top of the page. Always remember engage first, then offer people a chance to try it out in the browser.<p>Also I had to reach the bottom of the page to find out that it was a desktop app. Is it built in Electron? One last tip if this works as well as it looks in the demo you could easily double your price.