Slater resources, updates and community activity
The team behind Slater would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! 🎄🎅🎁 Get the Santa ASCII art: https://slater.app/projects/11431/pages/27608 Happy coding! 🤙 the Slater Team If Slater helps you create better websites, please support the team behind it. Become a Pro Slater User
Earlier this year, we built figdam.com. It is currently used by several of our clients to host files and watermark PDFs. We’d like to bring this file hosting functionality to Slater users. With that in mind, where do you currently store files that Webflow doesn’t support? Would this feature be useful to you? What file hosting features do you need? Let us know. JS 101: File types File storage? Javascript? Let's consider all of the different file types that you could host and then retrieve and...
Hi, Just a reminder that Kendra and Mason will be hosting an EA Office Hours Zoom this Friday, the 13th (spooky…) to chat about topics relating to Chapter 1: Sales for Creative Types. Sign up if you can make it, and bring your questions. Let’s get past any lingering sales ick together. Register to join us this Friday, 12/13 here. Also, if you can’t make it this week, we’re thinking about doing it again next Friday, 12/20 as well, if anyone is game? To ring in the holiday break, we’ll chat...
👋 So, you reserved your copy of How to Grow & Scale Your Business With Webflow. What’s next? So much good stuff. First, thank you. We had an amazing response — about 100 copies ordered in the first few days. And now, we’re finishing up getting the initial batch published. We’re estimating those — your copy included — will be mailed out in the next couple weeks. Check your inbox for weekly updates from us. We’ll be sending info on your order, details about upcoming Office Hours and Livestreams...
Edgar Allan is working on a large Webflow project that includes authentication, URL rewrites, API connections, and a quiz. Webflow isn’t well-suited for much of this functionality. To achieve everything the client wants, we utilized a tool we built called Wes. Wes allows us to work within Webflow Enterprise while managing deployment using the tech stack of your choice. Recently, we’ve had conversations with several Webflow agencies to unblock them. If you’re facing limitations with...
👋, In August, we launched a novel approach to a marketing site with ask.edgarallan.com. Since then, we've been focused on determining whether we built a winner or a loser by refining our data analytics capabilities. So far, the results look promising: check out this update. Alongside ask.ea, we’re also enhancing our data analytics for Slater.app. What does that mean? Over the next several months, we’ll be rolling out updates based on your feedback and user data. Stay tuned—we’ll share our...
We’re taking a break from our usual JavaScript content to share some exciting news: Edgar Allan has released a new book, How to Grow & Scale Your Business With Webflow. Created in collaboration with Webflow, this book is a must-read for anyone building a business with Webflow. Filled with insights from 3x Agency of the Year winner Edgar Allan, it’s a playbook for individuals, pro-lancers, and small agencies growing alongside the revolutionary site-building platform. For our Slater users, we...
Slater now has 7389 users. 2060 of you haven't created a file yet. 😱 These numbers got us thinking – we want to make Slater easier and more helpful to all #nocode developers.We’d love to hear from you: Did you find it challenging to get started with Slater? Are there specific areas where you could use more guidance? Do you use JavaScript often in your Webflow projects? Or is Slater your first time exploring custom code? What would help you feel more confident writing JavaScript in Slater? Are...
Do you use GitHub? As the industry-standard platform for code management, it allows you to save snapshots of your code or even automate code deployments to external systems. This week, we quietly rolled out a new GitHub integration, now available to all our paid users! With this feature, you can seamlessly manage code and enhance your workflows directly within our platform. Watch the video to learn how to set up GitHub in Slater. h/t Jason Roach & Pierre Lovenfosse Join our Slack if you want...
We're excited to announce a new user type designed specifically for your clients who want to manage their Slater projects without writing code themselves. Introducing Hosting Users! Here's what your clients get for just $5/month: Full team management capabilities (add/remove developers) Complete access to project code Ability to document code using Slater AI Direct control over their website's Slater project When you transfer a project, your clients can now choose to become Hosting Users,...