[HN Gopher] AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
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       AWS Amplify Studio: Figma design to full-stack apps
        
       Author : revskill
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2021-12-03 08:32 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
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       | node-bayarea wrote:
       | Remember, many of these things that get released are usually just
       | vaporware. They may become better 6 months or a year later, or,
       | they may never see the light of day.
        
       | arpinum wrote:
       | Amplify constantly under delivers. Features are built only enough
       | to make a demo. Now they say they can go from design tool to
       | working app, where dozens of companies have failed over the last
       | 25 years. Call me skeptical.
        
       | simse wrote:
       | At what point is AWS too big? Or should I say, when did they
       | become too big?
        
       | istjohn wrote:
       | After getting burned by the dumpster fire that is Amazon
       | Honeycode, I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole.
        
         | yanlezeiler wrote:
         | What's wrong with Honeycode ?
        
       | eunoia wrote:
       | I was working heavily with amplify a couple years ago and to be
       | honest it was an awful experience.
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       | Common use cases weren't handled well, deployment failures were
       | common, overall architecture was actually less coherent when
       | using amplify than just the constituent AWS services directly,
       | etc...
       | 
       | It felt like a kitchen sink of functionality that no one was
       | incentivized to actually make work well together.
       | 
       | Have things improved?
        
         | sbashyal wrote:
         | Not a whole lot based on our experience few months ago.
        
           | loh wrote:
           | May I ask about your (and eunoia's) use case(s)?
           | 
           | Coincidentally, 2 hours ago I submitted Molecule.dev right
           | here to HN (an hour before this AWS submission), a full-stack
           | solution which aims to address all of the time consuming pain
           | points of building (common functionality), maintaining, and
           | releasing cross-platform apps.
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           | It isn't a UI builder like AWS Amplify Studio, but I think we
           | can do it better. We cover all of the most common use cases
           | and are planning on adding more, all without any vendor lock-
           | in or unnecessary convoluted abstractions.
        
             | tluyben2 wrote:
             | That looks interesting; will give it a go in the weekend.
        
         | sjg1729 wrote:
         | Nope. I made the mistake of architecting my current project
         | around Amplify. Deployment errors are thankfully rare these
         | days, but things that should be easy are hard, and there are
         | many seemingly obvious use cases that the Amplify CLI doesn't
         | handle.
        
       | nicoburns wrote:
       | I would like Figma themselves to have a go at something like
       | this. Their auto-layout system is close enough to being flexbox
       | that you can actually make decent responsive layout with it. I
       | think a way to export that could be quite useful if done well.
       | Especially for prototypes.
        
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