Skip to content

Comment on Ask HN: What software/app do you wish would exist?

Comments

I wish there were something like Visual Basic for the development of web applications.

We built one!

https://anvil.works is the tool. It is quite explicitly based on VB and other systems like it: it's got a drag-and-drop UI designer, backed by Python. Double-click a button, and edit the Python code that runs when it's clicked. You write Python on the front end (we transpile to JS), Python on the back end, and we host it for you with a click. Check it out!

Nice solution, but there's no way I would touch it unless it's open source. Any plan for that?

This would be super useful, but only if it is able to design using best-practices and output simple and concise CSS.

The problem with many of these tools is that the output is so convoluted that it couldn't be edited manually.

I can't tell if you're joking... Microsoft had technology like this for years and years and no one used it. (I'm not talking about Frontpage.)

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.