Hey everyone! I’m Oleg, founder of Webstudio. My team and I are super thrilled to launch Webstudio Beta https://apps.webstudio.is, the open-source visual development tool that will enable designers to create sites they love with the features that they deserve.🙌✨ We have been building this solution since mid-2022, and with this launch, we are finally ready to unveil it and get the community’s feedback! 🧮 The Webstudio Experience With Webstudio, you can directly interact with HTML & CSS to build more creative and capable websites. Whether it is for a simple landing page or an entire web app, we want Webstudio to be your canvas. Our core vision is to give limitless powers to web designers and visual developers, and we are building forward with that mindset. No platform lock-in, designer-oriented UX, unbridled creativity, and extreme performance- at Webstudio, we are committed to providing it all. 💪🏼 🧮 What sets Webstudio apart We have designed our core architecture with these priorities in mind: 🏡 Community-first approach to development: Got some ideas for improvement? Share them directly with our core team https://github.com/webstudio-is/...! 🧩 Ownership and Privacy: No Google tracking by default and free GDPR-compliance hosting with the option to self-host. You own what you build, whether it is your site or your data. ⚡️ Performance: Got a need for speed? At Webstudio, you will get WebP-optimized images, a workers-based cloud, and super efficient rendering thanks to https://remix.run. 🪄 Design Tokens- yep, no more classes-related headaches. 💰 Pricing- You can build a production site or experiment for free inside Webstudio. We only monetize high-traffic sites and the advanced capabilities that are primarily used for client work.

And that’s not all! Here are some other upgrades that we are working on and will be making public this year:

🎯 Real-time Collaboration: With this upgrade, multiple designers and visual developers will be able to collaborate in real-time on Webstudio at no extra charge, just like in Figma! 💻 Backend Versatility- no more limits to what CMSs and databases you can use. You will use CMSs like WordPress, Sanity, Airtable, or Notion as if they were built in, even though they are separate UIs! 🔗 Native Extensibility- You get to add features as if they were built into the platform through React components and plugins. And last but not least – it’s all open-source. 💚 🧮 What’s coming next The Beta Version is only the beginning - the static site builder that is not so static technically. With these upcoming features, you will soon witness the full power of the architecture: 📌 AI Integration 📌 Figma Tokens Sync 📌 UI Kits 📌 CMSs and Databases 📌 Versioning 📌 Real-Time Collaboration 📌 Interactions and Animations … and a lot more. Stay tuned! If you want to learn more about the features that set Webstudio apart, check out https://webstudio.is/blog/webstu...!

That's awesome! This is why I love searching for new tools on Product Hunt, there are awesome new products every day! Thank you for making this Open Source!

Amazing! Good reason to switch from Webflow now.

Super cool! Excited to try this out. 🌱 One comment: Love that this is an open source product... in the spirit of that, you may want to consider allowing for email signup in the app as opposed to forcing the choice between Github and Google. Seems like it would be in line with the open source ethos to decouple those companies from using the product.

Hey @oleg008 +1 for democratizing open source for everybody! Congrats on your launch! Looking forward to using it when ready

Looks really a lot like Webflow. Will try it out!

Congratulations Oleg and the team. I already used this before the beta launch and tried it out with a small site. So far I'm impressed. I love this open-source project where we have full controllability without the platform lock. Waiting for the releases to be launched this year. 😍

Congratulations on the launch! I had the opportunity to test it out and I must say that I am very impressed. The Builder UX inspired by Webflow is intuitive and user-friendly, and the improvements you have made really made a difference. The fact that we can publish our static site for free to Webstudio Cloud with the added benefit of CloudFlare and modern front-end architecture is truly a game-changer. Thank you for creating such a powerful and efficient tool, I look forward to making full use of it. 😊

Congrats on the launch @oleg008. No-code tools like Webstudio are paving the way for citizen developers to create a stronger impact by building software without the need of technical knowledge!. Making it open-source increases the reach for this potential. Webstudio is simple to grasp with its minimalistic approach and flexible composability of blocks. Looking forward to what is coming next!

Congratulations and much success!

Awesome work Oleg and the team! I'm eager to give Webstudio a try. It looks very user-friendly and intuitive. I can tell you have put a lot of effort into the user experience. I also like the option to access the backend for more customization and flexibility.

Great stuff. Looking to get some free time to test it out a bit more.

Congrats on the launch! Webstudio looks very promising. 🙌

Great launch! When is the CMS integration coming?

This is great! Glad to see more open source alternatives. The UX looks smooth and the integration with CloudFlare Workers is a huge bonus. Excited to see what improvements will come with future updates!

Amazing. Congrats! Is the platform itself running on CF?

I've been following this for a while and I'm really impressed by the approach, progress and open source model. Well done, time to rewrite my site!

Great job on releasing Webstudio Beta! As someone who values modern front-end architecture, CloudFlare Workers are great, awesome performance and the prices are very compelling. Can you provide more details on the features and customization options available in the Builder UX? Also, how does Webstudio compare to other static site generators on the market? Looking forward to learning more!

Oleg and the team behind Webstudio are incredible - Its a platform us no-coders have been dreaming off... I can't wait to change sendero.ai's tagline from "Build software with webflow" to "Build software with Webstudio" - Our small agency believes that Webstudio's open-source mind-set will 100% led to community based outputs, which means much more powerful builds for our end clients. Excited to be apart of this next generation visual development platform! lets go WS!

i'm curious about if we can use it with a Turborepo (NextJS) project, i cannot find documentation about it.