Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control
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Learn about Floro, a visual version control system for graphical content, and how it can simplify design and development workflows
Action Steps
- Watch the demo video to understand Floro's features
- Explore Floro's open-source repository on GitHub
- Try merging and diffing graphical content using Floro
- Configure Floro for offline-first use
- Apply Floro to a personal project or existing codebase
Who Needs to Know This
Designers and developers can benefit from using Floro to manage and version control graphical assets, improving collaboration and reducing manual editing
Key Insight
💡 Floro allows designers to manage graphical assets without needing command line expertise
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🌟 Introducing Floro: Visual Version Control for graphical content! 🌈 Simplify design and dev workflows with this open-source tool 🚀
Key Takeaways
Learn about Floro, a visual version control system for graphical content, and how it can simplify design and development workflows
Full Article
Hi HN, we’re building Floro ( https://floro.io ), an open-source, offline-first visual version control system that allows you to merge and diff graphical content. Demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjixBNKUbM . We were a YC W21 startup (Cheqout) that originally worked on restaurant tech. We ended up pivoting after the pandemic and decided to build Floro due to a lot of problems we encountered while working on Cheqout. We struggled a lot with string content and dark mode, especially when it came to static assets. We were a cross-platform product, so everything was an SVG. What we wanted was a way for our designer (who cannot use a command line) to be able to check static assets into our codebase and be able to manage our color themes without us having to manually edit the assets ourselves. We also faced a lot of problems with i18n and keeping translations up to date. Both problems felt kind of similar, they’re both essentially just key value solut
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