My original vision fro PZ Blocks was that they would be relatively low cost and that they would require minimal interaction with PeakZebra once you’d downloaded. You know, if you’re not charging a lot, you simply can’t afford to spend a lot of time tweaking things for individual customers.
My thought was that you’d get your various blocks and then just drop them into your various pages. Only very minimal configuration would be needed.
I suppose it’s still possible that this vision will eventually be delivered. While I still think the block system is very approachable, it’s become clearer to me that for each client to build what they really want and need, rather than making do with something straight off the shelf, more back and forth, more interaction, is required.
The clear upside to this is that you get the applications you need–even if they are quite complex–quite quickly. We’re starting from existing components and templates and we’re intimately familiar with how they work, so as you describe your needs, we can realize them fast. You have a whole family of blocks at your disposal, but you don’t have to figure out all the possibilities and combinations that this menagerie of blocks offers.
The core goal–getting bespoke applications into your hands at a cost that’s a mere fraction of hiring an agency or your own developer. Plus, the more PeakZebra works with the blocks, the more we see how to make them simple and intuitive to interconnect. We move, by degrees, toward that initial vision of just handing you the set of blocks.
Meanwhile, the communication channels are open and we want to hear what you’re doing and building. Let’s get together and innovate!
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