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Hi!, creator of Gimli here. i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have

I recommend that you make the app available for beta testing with some users. Maybe even releasing a beta version to the public, do not make the mistake of waiting until you have the perfect product.

Other request/suggestion is to make it open source or at least free for personal use, it will bring a lot of users that will want to have the same tooling at their workplaces. Then you can have commercial licenses that you make corporations pay for.

Keep the great work!

Agree - could you release an Alpha version via Kickstarter? I'd pay (say) 50 SEK for alpha access to play with it for a couple of months, and (if wanted) give feedback on bugs.

You could always end alpha access at a given point (set date or once the beta release is out) and/or offer upgrades to the full package at a slight discount.

No downside, apart from a little more complication for you, and you'd maybe get a bit of money even sooner...

I'm just wondering why you've posted before release? I was really excited to try it out, only to discover that it isn't released yet... :(

Aw, well i'm glad you wanted to try it :)

Too answer your question though. I've been working on Gimli for the last 18 months now. Using up my own savings, and the reality is that I can't afford to keep working on it for much longer.

I would have loved to be able to present a finished and polished product but i'm just not there yet.

I recommend releasing what you have now since you're about to get a lot of HN traffic. Use it for feedback and upsells while you have the chance.

+1, release it as beta. We know how to deal with broken software, everyone here makes it all the time :-)

(At least, I do)

Would love a way to sign up on a mailing list so I can get updates on when this will be released. Looks awesome and can't wait to try it!

+1 for the mailing list

Good suggestion! I will look into it.

Okay, you've dedicated time to your project... but you haven't answered the question: why you've posted before release?

I think it's to garner support for the kickstarter linked on the page.

You can't use Show HN for that, though. Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

One little thing: after watching the demo vid, Youtube suggest some related content. You can disable that. (I caught myself youtubing inside your landing page :D )

I think google removed that option.

Could always use vimeo?

This looks really cool and definitely fills a need I've had when doing web front-end.

Does the UI viewer work with dynamic content such as that loaded from a back-end (or say, from a sample .json file in the event that we want to skip the API call)? I've done a lot of work in WPF/MVVM applications where everything ends up becoming a ResourceDictionary and breaks the Visual Studio UI viewer, so I'm curious how you handle it.

Also, do you have any plans to incorporate a compatibility view? It would be really cool if I could select an item from a combo box and see what my UI would look like in (say) IE or Opera

Super minor... but when I start scrolling down on FF 66.0.1 the "Debug" and the URL in what I thought was a bg image get garbled/overlapped:

https://imgur.com/qLhgM8u

How do you map the rendered dom elements to the php source files?

How does this tie to working with Bootstrap-based custom css frameworks?

How much will it costs?

The current pricing is available at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/182057119/gimli

Its basically:

29$ for a 2 year license. 35$ for a 2 year license + beta access

At least double those prices if this tool does what it looks like. Actually triple them and add a real buy button to see sell through.

You should also ask for an email to send a free trial/inform people of the release in order to build a first prospect list.

I'd agree with this if it was ready now. I think a huge discount is warranted considering it's not actually available now and you're backing a Kickstarter.

Agreed. If this actually has the polish + features it promises then it's worth _far_ more than what's quoted on the KS page. $80-100 dollars minimum.

since its based on free and open source editor did it have a chance for a free version?

How is it better than Pingendo?

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