I’m going to try and give an honest answer while remaining positive, I mean no offence to any humans or any software (be it Webflow or anything else!)
An interesting thread! In conclusion… Everyone LOVES Webflow (that’s why we’re all here right?) but maybe hates ‘bits’ of Webflow, which I get.
I get the Wishlist area seeming like nothing happens. I get the fact we’re paying customers. I get the marketing is awesome. I get there are some areas that are lacking.
My own six month experience using Webflow…
I’ve always longed for software where I could be in control. As a designer, I hate giving a design to a developer, waiting what seemed like ‘too long’ only to get something back that wasn’t ‘quite’ right. Maybe I was using rubbish developers, but I always wanted to be able to make changes myself rather than asking someone else to do it for me.
Webflow is awesome. There’s no doubt about it. It’s the first software I’ve tried that I’ve felt I can do 90% of everything that I wanted to do and with next to no developer help. All for what is actually quite minimal cost. I tend to build either really basic sites or fully-fledged ecommerce sites, so both ends of the spectrum.
For design, I can’t really fault Webflow. Where my frustration comes in (and there have been days of frustration) is reliability and missing basic features.
Reliability, well it is still fairly new, so I get there will always be some bugs, but I have been ‘stuck’ at times where things just wouldn’t load or everything is generally slow. It looks like it could be a cookie issue, but it’s not always ideal to clear your cookies multiple times a day.
As for missing basic features, thing like selecting more than one image at once from the gallery to delete, or uploading a 301 file so you don’t have to manually enter each redirect one-by-one. Perhaps I wrongly expected these to be features, but it meant having to find work arounds on what would have otherwise been a really simple issue.
But…
We’ve still been able to build an ecommerce site using Shopify for what it does best and Webflow for what it does best, a truly perfect match that has worked so well for us so far.
I’ve had no problems with support, I tend to get an email back the next day which is awesome.
And I do feel Webflow are listening - I mean was that blog post of new features always planned? Maybe, but it went online at a good time.
Webflow is…
- An ice cream but with no sprinkles
- A box of chocolates but with only one layer
- A pizza but with pineapple you have to flick off…
Webflow is awesome, just with a ‘hint’ of disappointment in some areas.
Still, I am still using it, we are about to launch some very large sites on the platform after some experiments with smaller sites and I look forward to where the platform will be in the future 