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napkin

Napkin is a rapid web prototyping tool intending to bridge the gap between product/UI/UX and development processes when building applications and sites.

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
40GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Napkin is a rapid web prototyping tool intending to bridge the gap between product/UI/UX and development processes when building applications and sites.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Observed mentions: 2012-08-30 22:06:32 UTC to 2012-08-30 23:39:54 UTC.

012012-08-30 22:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-30 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 30, 22:002012-08-30 23:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 30, 23:00

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Aug 30, 23:002012-08-30 23:00:00 UTC2012-08-31 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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This strategy of collecting email addresses without delivering anything first never seems to die down. The reason is simple: it works. Many people will hand over their email address with no guarantee of anything in return. A shockingly large number of people will do that. And then the opt-in spam begins. It's a never ending email campaign for who knows what. Does the spam work? Surprisingly, yes. Enough to be worth paying to keep sending it out. Legalised spam. Is an email address worth something? Gather enough of them and yes, absolutely it is. This is all pure speculation. Or is it? If I had a dime for every site that collects email addresses without delivering anything first... As if Mozilla didn't have enough data about users already. Anyway, if you wanna see what this thing is here you go: http://github.com/mozilla/napkin/
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In Napkin - A Rapid Web Prototyping Tool
Ok - I've found a github repo for this: https://github.com/mozilla/napkin#readme which doesn't help much, but it does seem to have an overview document that helps somewhat: https://github.com/mozilla/napkin/blob/master/docs/overview.... It looks like links and forms can be linked inside the mockup generator, and it's that linking that they are trying to preserve by exporting a node.js app. I'm not sure that I'd care enough, to lock things in in this fashion, but perhaps it's a nice tool if you are already planing an app using Node/Express
In Napkin - A Rapid Web Prototyping Tool

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