BackGreetings & eCards Startup Greetsapp Saved 70% of Development Time with Locofy Lightning
Greetsapp is an AI-powered app to generate custom ecards that can be shared with anyone online.
Locofy.ai has provided Greetsapp’s engineering team with a solid foundation that they can build upon by translating their designs into production-ready frontend code. By leveraging our deep integration with GitHub as well as LocoAI’s auto-tagging & auto-components capabilities, they were able to build their web application and seamlessly deploy it to their favorite cloud provider.
Customer Overview
Greetsapp is a New York-based AI startup that lets you create custom eCards to share with anyone online. Born out of a desire to blend the age-old tradition of greeting cards with the convenience of the digital era, GreetsApp emerged as a beacon for those looking to express themselves.
From birthdays to Christmas, and every little moment in between, they have created a platform where users can generate digital greeting cards based on occasions, themes, styling, and more customisations. They also have an AI-powered writing tool to suggest the perfect words and phrases for each message that goes out with the cards.
Designing the app prototype and hand-coding designs into high-quality code took a significant amount of time for Greetsapp. This setback impacted their shipping timeline, prompting them to seek solutions for efficiency.
During a Google search, they stumbled upon Locofy Lightning. What made them try it instantly was the fact that now they can generate responsive and modular code in just a click and ship much faster.
With Locofy Lightning they were able to get production-ready frontend code in just 1 click and were able to review and edit the code to customise it.
LocoAI optimised their design by automatically removing unnecessary frames, grouping items intelligently, and identifying inconsistent gaps & alignments. It also applied styling & layout to their elements based on various media queries, resulting in high-quality, responsive code. And, thanks to LocoAI, the static layers within their Figma design files were seamlessly transformed into interactive components such as buttons, input fields, videos, and more.
Furthermore, LocoAI produced modular code for them by splitting the code into reusable components with props and suggested human-readable layer and class names. This ensured the code they got was easy to maintain and highly scalable.
Greetsapp was able to quickly go from a Figma design to pixel-perfect code which they were able to sync directly to GitHub and then build upon it with Supabase.
Locofy has enabled us to go from design to production faster. 60-70% time savings is a godsend for bootstrapped startups. We were amazed when we used Lightning for the first time. I had never seen such an advanced design-to-code platform. Definitely recommended for all startups.
Locofy.ai helps individuals and teams effortlessly generate high-quality code consistently and customize with popular frameworks and libraries such as React, Next.js. Gatsby, Vue.js, and plain HTML-CSS. You can even select from a wide range of styling options, ranging from TailwindCSS and CSS-in-JS to inline styles depending on your project requirements.
By seeing a live preview, powered by code, they were able to experience their app as the end users would without even leaving Figma.
The team needed reusable components in their application to simplify the integration of backend APIs and maintain a modular code structure. Locofy Lightning enabled them to easily generate components and add dynamic props. This not only facilitated connecting backend APIs to the app but also enabled them to incrementally integrate Locofy.ai into their ongoing projects.
Frontend Development Accelerated with AI
Locofy.ai helps turn your Figma designs into pixel-perfect code and enables teams to ship products 10x faster without compromising code quality & developer experience.
By integrating Locofy Lightning into their workflow, Greetsapp achieved a remarkable reduction of around 70% in their development time. Moreover, they effortlessly generated well-structured code that could be readily adapted to accommodate evolving needs.
