When you&re trying to build apps, there is a very tedious point where you have to stare at a wireframe and then laboriously turn it into code.
Actually, the process itself is highly repetitive and ought to be much easier.
The traditional software development from front-end design to front-end html/css development to working code is expensive, time-consuming, tedious and repetitive.But most approaches to solving this problem have been more complex than they need to be.
What if you could just turn wireframes straight into code and then devote your time to the more complex aspects of a buildThat the idea behind a Copenhagen-based startup called Uizard.Uizard computer vision and AI platform claims to be able to automatically turn design mockups — and this could be on the back of napkin —into source code that developers can plug into their backend code.It now raised an $800,000 pre-seed round led by New York-based LDV Capital with co-investors ByFounders, The Nordic Web Ventures, 7percent Ventures, New York Venture Partners, entrepreneur Peter Stern (co-founder of Datek) and Philipp Moehring and Andy Chung from AngelList .
This fundraising will be used to grow the team and launch the beta product.The company received interest in June 2017 when they released their first research milestone dubbed &pix2code& and implementation on GitHub was the second-mosttrending project of June 2017 ahead of Facebook Prepack and Google TensorFlow.