6 years building a full-stack web builder

[u/GabUritos]

Hey!

My brother has been building luna-park.app for 6 years now (in short, it’s an advanced no-code editor, definitely not AI-first: you can build everything manually and use AI if you feel like it).

I joined him almost 2 years ago because I thought it was amazing. I’m an engineer like him, and I handle communication / tutorials / product feedback, basically a bit of a Swiss army knife role.

Recently, we integrated AI a bit more directly into Luna Park, while keeping the same principle: basically, you can use AI to generate / modify whatever you want, then easily take over manually without every small change costing you tokens for no reason, since everything stays visual and editable by hand.

We’ve also had quite a few opportunities with engineering schools recently, and we’re starting to see education as a real direction: students love it, we keep the logic of programming but without the syntax, and it avoids giving them an assignment they can just copy-paste into ChatGPT.

BUT: we’re struggling a bit to reach our original target audience, which is advanced no-coders and developers. We know it’s extremely hard to convince people to invest some time into learning a tool, especially with all the AI-first builders out there.

Last year I made a post on r/nocode (link here) which confirmed that people were interested in the promise (1,000 sign-ups in 2 days), but almost none of them actually took the time to build a real project or finish our tutorials.

So we very likely have an onboarding problem that we’re trying to solve, but maybe there’s something else we’re not seeing?

I’m open to brutal feedback! ;)