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I would say that your best bet is to stick with an established front end library. Bootstrap[1] is the most well known, but there are others such as UI Kit (not to be confused with Apple's UIKit for iOS)[2].

If you'd like some additional advice, feel free to contact me (email should be in my profile).

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/

[2] https://getuikit.com/

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And rather than having to write the Bootstrap code you can use something like http://www.layoutit.com/ to drag and drop what you want, then click 'download' to get the css/html.

Also Google 'hackathon starter' for your language. Most languages have some predesigned stuff that's open and you and hack/modify.

Be aware that these still require you to have at least a basic understanding of CSS and HTML (the more you need to customize it, the more you'll need to know). Nothing crazy, but don't expect it to be a drag and drop designer.

For Bootstrap (UI Kit might be the same but I haven't used it) your best option is to look at their examples[1], find one you like, then view the source code from it. Use that as your starting page and go from there.

But like I said: any customizing, tweaking, etc will require you to know some HTML and CSS.

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/examples/

True, but if you have an MVP idea... best bet is just build it --even if it's not perfect/beautiful... just launch.. get some validation for the concept, maybe some early subscribers, and then hire an ui/designer to clean things up a bit.

Yeah, but mostly you just need to apply their CSS styles.

"But like I said: any customizing, tweaking, etc will require you to know some HTML and CSS."

That's the easy part. Knowing what you want it to look like, that's the hard part.

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