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I'm building https://pygma.app, a tool to turn Figma files into real websites. Perhaps not quite a side project as I've been spending half of the week on it. Should be launching this week.


I'm currently on Sketch, but been looking at Figma as I like the browser-dependency, as opposed to OS-dependency.

Question (and bear in mind I haven't used figma more than 5 min): what do I have to do besides the mockup in order to be able to use Pygma?

Looks v cool!

P.S: Feedback for feedback, if you're down? https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/


Hey, sorry I just realised I forgot to come back to this, here's some feedback:

I think the landing page is really well done - that kind of format can be bad if the content isn't well written but each sentence made me want to read the next so I think you've pulled it off. I do think some visuals to reinforce your message might help (e.g. a graph of willingness to pay vs location, etc.).

My understanding of this is that it's going to sit amongst your pricing code and run experiments to change the price dynamically and return the best result after some time - is that correct? If so, I do wonder why no one has pulled this off particularly well as a SaaS before? (or have they?). I believe that Profitwell for example makes their revenue from consulting.

The other thing is that if my understanding above is correct, what stops the user from just cancelling once you've optimised their pricing and you lose capturing a lot of the value you've created for them (again, you revenue model may be completely different, I don't know).

I would also question whether this kind of thing isn't ultimately solved by the old "talk to you users" thing and understanding what they would pay from that strategy rather than software (at least with purchasing power parity though software + independent research does seem more likely to work since it's hard to talk to people from all over the world).

Ultimately this is the kind of thing I would give a try once I have some moderate amount of revenue and I feel that I've at least figured out who my customers are and can then optimise from there.

Pretty cool anyway, hope it succeeds and I'm in a position to try it out in a few months.


You have to use the auto layout feature within Figma to have a consistent output for now (I intend on relaxing this requirement, but auto layout makes things much easier). But you don't need to do anything external to Figma. There's a plugin (currently in review) and you will be able to manage everything from there.

Will come back to this post to give you feedback later.


Sounds challenging to do well, but very cool concept. Best of luck.


Thank you. It certainly is challenging but it's mostly working.




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