#138 Design Collection, Insights from a no-code maker, Tristan Walker on the board of Footlocker and 100+ No-Code Tools
This week I got one of my product pages that’s not live yet working.
Built this pretty quickly, and haven’t even been super focussed on it.
I also had a friend ask me to build a website for him, but he is looking for a place to sell his beats as a product; like a single landing page where visitors can shop from a selection of his ready to tell beats. I was able to point him the direction of tools like Gumroad and BigCartel.
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Heard an interesting chat with the Founder of Webflow talking about the fact that he built is as he and his brother were running a design studio building websites but noticed that they could productise some of the features to work more efficiently. Eventually they went to YC and thought more and more about their business model. Even though Wix and Squarespace were in the market already, they spotted an opportunity to build a minimal set of features that made responsive design easier
What happens when you think you’re too late
I started Webflow 3 different times before 2012, starting all the way in 2005 nads At different time I got discoured “Weebly got into accelarators, and raised money from Sequia”
The key insight from 2012…one very specific new technology that came into browsers, responsive design that none of these tools had. That’s the part that I was doing a lot…and I would translate into [CSS using breakpoints]. That was our littlehedge into the market to say nothing exists like this to do actual responsive design where you could do one design that could flow down into the next version.
When their distraction becomes your opportunity
A lot of people in 2012 were thinking about mobile, when we spoke to investors or anyone, they were like what are you doing this whole medium is dying, everyones working on apps as thats the next big opportunity. It was a combination of having that small feature set that we could be unique in and most people not paying attention
Checkout this cool demo Webflow created
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Tristan Walker’s Passion For Staying Fresh Lands Him Spot on Foot Lockers Board of Directors - AfroTech
Foot Locker announced the election of Tristan Walker, founder of Walker&Co. and Bevel, to its Board of Directors, effective February 2, 2020. Walker took to his twitter to express his excitement about his new position.