Making a less crappy web app

usebracket.com

23 points·ianyanusko··10 comments

Wasn’t there a code editor called brackets made by Adobe?

That's what I thought this was. Brackets coming back and becoming a web-only editor or something. Even though it was already a web-based editor.

So did I… are there no original names left? My company used the other Bracket extensively for years.

Also at first confusing is that the logo is the very recognizable Apple II logo.

I don’t see how you could confuse ][Bracket with the well established brand []Brackets. Also checkout my webapps WynnAmp and MichaelSoft Wurd.

Yeah, that's what I thought this was at first.

Hey everyone, full disclosure I'm the founder of Bracket. I obviously wrote this article in part to get people to use our new web app, but more specifically I wanted to show the dramatic design changes we've been pushing on during the last few months and document why we've made those changes.

As somebody new to web app design, this has been a learning process for me, and wanted to share a piece of that journey. If you want can see our old, lousy MVP web app, it's at legacy.app.usebracket.com. The new app is linked on the blog page under "Get started".

TOC busted https://i.imgur.com/JxTWhQ3.png

Good eye, going to fix this now.

this is the original brackets https://brackets.io/

not sure why ianyanusko is naming his app bracket, just trying to confuse people

Not trying to confuse anybody! Mostly just driven by wanting to find a name that was easy to spell and had a domain available for less than $10k :')

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