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I Hate Website Builders – So I Built My Own

kiraaziz on January 04, 2025

Website builders should make life easier, but they usually just end up being a headache. After struggling with them for too long, I thought, “Why n...
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Atharva Kulkarni

Looking forward to this. Pls share once completed.

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captproton

Suggestion: please host the video on YouTube.

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ARYAN KUMAWAT

Hey I love your idea of scrapping websites. I was also building similar tool but yours is very comprehensive and user friendly and endless. Thanks bro.

Can I customize it and use it for commercial purpose?

What if I want cross site sections/components is it possible yet?

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kiraaziz

Yes I need to work more on the function, it work fine with mobirise.com, but I want It to be adopted to any website

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assaad salameh

Good stuff

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Ali Al Khawaja • Edited

I would rather use web studio
Webstudio.is

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Keith

No need to shill webstudio, you can take this for what it is, a modded grapejs. Webstudio also just modified grapejs I assume and proceeded to do every little thing they could to vendor lock anything you build. Their export code is horrid, and basic things like dynamic data which could have been the only useful feature is also paywalled. So frankly the comparison is apples and oranges.

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Ali Al Khawaja

vendor lock on an free and open source app ? how ?🤨

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kiraaziz

Ok

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vkradio • Edited

Hey man, you live in 2025, why in the world anyone will want to build a website with HTML pages?

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kiraaziz

Ok