Show HN: Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates
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I'm a designer who's been learning to code for a while now (far longer than I'd love to admit) and one of my biggest issues was trying to find something to code.
I would usually design something and then code it, but that took too much time. So I made Codewell! Let me know your thoughts on this project and why you think this could or couldn't be helpful for beginners!
When I searched for an answer to "What do I get with a subscription?"
It was "oh source code files."
Also, I really like the fact that you've thought of this as a SAAS service. Must have been quite a bit of work.
All the best.
Codewell's definitely growing, we have over 600+ registered users, some really supportive paying members, 60+ users on our Slack channel, and people are already posting some really good solutions on Codewell.
I would say yes! We're really looking forward to reaching more developers and helping them in their journey.
I have some feedback. Given that other sites are giving exact same service, this is not of much use to me. However, what I need is step by step instructions on how to accomplish a given template. I do not need finished code. I need instructions on how to build each component, styling of each header, each "card", how to use bootstrap rows and make sure nothing over flow, make sure images are not clipped inside grid layout etc. There are individual tutorials for each part but it has become hard to find tuorials for entire project.
Some youtube videos come close but since they are made by experts, its never clear what can go wrong and how one should reason about it.
I guess I want annotated solutions and not finished solutions. I gave same feedback for other sites, but they agreed its needed but didnt do anything about it.
Great question — the main selling point for Codewell is the quality of the templates. Free or paid, the templates will be made by experienced designers, so people can expect high quality templates.
Think full-fledged projects (i.e. a template with a landing page, onboarding experience, dashboard, etc).
There's so much we have in mind that we want to implement in Codewell to make beginner developer's lives easier, but this is just the start and we're continuously looking for feedback to help us achieve that.
All in all, though, we don't see it as a bad thing that there are similar services out there, in fact, the more, the better for beginner devs!
Nobody can cover all those things, since they are very much individual problems. You can usually find other people that ran into the same or a similar problem by using search engines or something like stack overflow.
An experienced developer will be able to guess what the problem might be and attempt several things to fix it. This knowledge is not really teachable by following a course or youtube video. It's acquired through working with technologies and learning the ins and outs of those.