Good lord, man, this is a _side_ project? Most impressive. Nothing much to add except to say I am most impressed.

This seems like a very capable and solidly built project. Well done!

That being said, I can't wrap my head around the naming. Why tips.io? What do tips mean in this context?

(PS: Excuse me if it's covered in the promo video, I'm currently in a zoom call and I can't put any audio through right now)

Wow, this is ridiculously polished for a one-man-show side project. Massive kudos.

Do you have a write-up somewhere of how you built this? I think there is a lot that I (and probably many here on HN) can learn from you.

I'm curious to why FF isn't supported? What actually breaks it?

This is solid, I'll show my appreciation by giving constructive criticism. This is after giving it the "120 second glance" that I imagine is how most people scan projects quickly without a proper deep dive:

* First impression: this is a website builder that looks and feels like many other website builders, with some advantages like low onboarding friction, and AI integration. As a solo project reaching par is a triumph. But I think if you continue to diverge your marketing page from a default SaaS startup style you can separate yourself more from the pack AND build a reputation as a better design tool instead of another design tool. Of course the product is more important than the landing page, but perception is perception. You do for example show personality in some of the loading pages which I personally enjoy.

* I got about 4 hours of sleep last night. I was thrilled when I could click into your app and immediately play around without having to register or experience other forms of friction. But complex design interfaces are overwhelming to me. How do I learn your tool quickly? Why should I invest the time to learn your tool versus other great tools? These are questions I'm left with after a quick scan. There are a lot of developer tools vying for my time. And I imagine their all working on AI integrations if they don't have it already.

* As a SWE I don't like Tailwind. I don't like the syntax soup, I don't like having to memorize less conventional syntax because my brain already has enough trivia in it, and I prefer small indie projects that are maintained by extremely small teams with limited resources. As a result I do not reach for Tailwind (despite having paid the $300 or whatever for their membership!). What about developers who don't want to use Tailwind?

* As a potential business customer, can I depend on you? Where will this product be in multiple years? What's the process to transition from a competing tool? What's the process for transitioning to a different tool? Enterprise customers, where the real money is, care about consistency and managing liability sometimes (often?) more then the potential value of a new tool. Consider looking into various compliance licensing, industry audits, and enterprise features, that will be needed to attract investors who want returns based on enterprise sales, not consumer sales.

I wrote this up because I like your project and hope you succeed. Hopefully it helps!

No image uploads on the free plan is tough. Might drive more upgrades but makes using the free plan untenable for me

Might be smarter to limit to a few images because 0 will likely push a lot of people away

looks pretty sick, if you don't mind me asking. How long did it take you to build this and how are you marketing this? how many paying customers do you have so far may I ask

Come on. This is soo not cool. You cannot call something this amazingly effing polished - a "side" project. As someone who struggles with FE I went into a mini depression mode! really amazing work. Please please put a write up on how you built this (if you are willing to share). Im really interested in the FE magic!

This looks sick! How easy is it to add custom stuff into the pages? Say I've got a really cool three.js project I want to showcase. Is there much work to add it in?

Congrats on launching! I love the design and the clever loading messages ("Harambe would love this"). Do you plan to support an export option if I want to self-host?

Very cool. Post it in the Svelte subreddit, I am sure they‘ll enjoy this.

Really cool! Is it strictly a playground? Entering a subdomain at the start gives me the impression that I can use the result as an actual website, perhaps there's already a path for that but I wasn't sure.

This is incredible work for one person. Keen to try it out but like the website might be getting hugged.

I like how in the icon demo, it shows how you can replace X (formerly Twitter). Nice.

Looks really nice.

Some very minor feedback: the animations are a bit too busy for my tastes

Nick! Congrats on the launch. Super solid. I tried getting ado.tips.io but looks like domain needs to be at least 4 characters long :(

This is awesome!

Front end devs are officially on notice at this point. If you're someone who makes their living doing little more than design -> code (and there are many of us still), it's time to upskill or be left in the dust. The days of writing markup/styles by hand are over.

Who is it for?