p/candu
The first no-code native web builder for SaaS
Ben Lang
Candu — No-code UI component builder for SaaS products
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Candu’s drag-and-drop interface puts CSMs and PMs in the driver’s seat, enabling them to build beautiful UI without writing any code. Now the teams who understand customers best can design user experiences their customers will love.
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Rob J Eiter
Hey Guys! Big Congrats on your launch - looks neat. would be interesting to know how you embed it in another website? is it through an iframe? can you maybe show a code snippet?
Lauren Cumming
@robert_eiter thanks so much!! For a sample code snippet you can check out our doc here https://docs.candu.ai/en/article.... After inserting the code snippet into your product or website you can then use the Candu Chrome Extension to preview your content and then embed it with a few clicks! 😊
Rob J Eiter
@lauren_cumming22 oh thanks! Cool! So as I understand it as long as JavaScript will be allowed there won't be issues with embedding right?
Jonathan Anderson
👋 Hello, Product Hunt — and thank you, Ben Lang (@benln) for hunting us! ⛵. I’m Jonathan, cofounder (who can't code) of Candu, a no-code UI component builder. 👀 @mresposito, cofounder(who can code) below! ✨. This (re)launch is dedicated to every founder who’s ever attempted to explain what they’re working on to their parents… with varying degrees of success. (Love you, Mom!)✨ As a product-led company making tools for product-led growth, Candu believes that your SaaS product should be so simple that it explains itself. So maybe my still mom doesn't quite get Candu, but that still means 9 out of 10 no-code creatives are building UX without coding. And if you don't believe me, check out our ✨ Creator Showcase: https://www.candu.ai/creator-sho... ✨ Here’s how you can tell your product’s story with Candu: 🎨 Design any UI with a drag-and-drop editor that’s so easy a kid could use it. Our install is now easy too. We went from commit(ted to your dev) to no-code copy/paste. ⛳️. Hi {first}! Use variables and discover personalization at scale. Leverage our data connectors to CRMs. What else is all that data entry for if not making your product better? 👀 See your product's story come to life before it goes live. With our Chrome preview extension, you can embed an inline component into any website. We’re by no means done, if you have feedback, we need to hear it. If you’re game, I’d invite you to try creating your own no-code announcement bar. How'd it go? 🤑 CONTEST: How would your parents describe your own products? (e.g., “Better than her macaroni necklaces”) Build, preview, and share a screenshot of a “parent-approved announcement” and tag @CanduLabs on social. Best announcements will win an annual full-feature license. Thank you for checking out Candu — if you have any questions, I’ll be here all day :)
Becky Reich
(@benln @mresposito @candulabs @jonathan_anderson2 Mine: “Do you work in a call center” Seeing the preview function WITH the ability to click the checklist items made my jaw drop
Ashley Withers
(@benln @mresposito @candulabs @jonathan_anderson2 My announcement bar is "You work on the internet, right?"
Samuel Gould
(@benln @mresposito @candulabs @jonathan_anderson2 Congrats on the launch! Love playing around with the editor — intuitive, powerful, and fast. Amazing to see how it has evolved over the years. And my mom’s banner would probably say: “You sure you don’t want to go to seminary?”
Desiree Phillips
(@benln @mresposito @candulabs @jonathan_anderson2) My mothers perspective: "Like a fashion designer, but for websites" Sure. 😅 With Candu you are able to enhance websites with more dynamic, engaging, interactive and productive content. No more widgets, everything is embedded directly into the content!
John Delavera
Congrats for your work. Excellent indeed. It'd be a great idea if you offered a discount to hunters. ;)
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@john_delavera Thank you for the feedback John, and great idea! We'll make sure to include discounts next time around, unfortunately we didn't set them up for this launch
Becky Reich
@john_delavera definitely great feedback! There is a contest though to win a free license. All the details are in the onboarding checklist for Hunters AND there's a personal plan available for free.
John Delavera
@becky_reich when you say a "free license" do you mean a lifetime license for the $ 49/m plan?
Ashley Withers
@mre @john_delavera Thank you! We appreciate your feedback! Please consider participating in our contest for a chance to win a free full-feature license. Details are inside our onboarding checklist right inside the app. :)
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@becky_reich @john_delavera Even better. It's a lifetime deal for the enterprise license, so you'll get all of Candu's features.
Roman
It seems Candu injects a div on the page where custom content goes. How do you handle style conflicts with the underlying page elements?
James Gill
I am absolutely in love with the videos you folks have made for Candu. Product looks awesome too. Congrats on the launch, all!
Shivan Modha
Very slick product, can't wait to get into the weeds! Curious to know if you can create very simple data-driven user interfaces with Candu?
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@shivanmodha Hey Shivan, We're actually working on that as one of our next projects. Would love to know a bit better what you have in mind to help our research. Could you describe me a bit what you have in mind?
Shivan Modha
@mre That's great to hear! I was thinking in the very simple case of if I had data coming in from something like a REST endpoint that I wanted to use to drive text on my UI
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@shivanmodha Thank you so much for the feedback. We're not planning on adding support for a REST endpoint yet as most of our users are non-technical and derive value from a no-code solution. However, we do want to enable similar use-cases so stay tuned!
Becky Reich
@mre @shivanmodha that's so interesting. I'm on the Marketing side of things and I love hearing the perspective from Software Engineers on solutions, features or use cases.
Jonathan Anderson
@mre @shivanmodha yes exactly! Today you can pull that data in from a webhook or CDP to display... so this future is close at hand :)
Troy (Mitch) Mitchell
Software as a service (SaaS) is an attractive option for most businesses, but it does have some downsides, including lack of data security, regulations compliance challenges, cumbersome mobility issues, and low performance. Congratulations on the launch.
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@mitch_mitchell Hey Mitch, thanks for the positive feedback. We've always invested heavily in those areas, but of course we still have a long way to go. Thanks for reminding us of the importance of those issues.
Becky Reich
@mitch_mitchell 100% it's going to be interesting as more types of teams (different technical levels with different mind sets) start having an impact on SaaS products. They will bring new perspectives, hopefully some solutions to the above, and definitely care about things like mobility issues more.
Mohammad Mohiuddin
Awesome, "Creativity made codeless". You have a great product and I wish you the best of luck getting it in front of more people.
Ashley Withers
@haimohiuddin thank you, Mohammad! We're out here trying to make no-code more creative and we're glad to have your support! 💪
Becky Reich
@haimohiuddin it is so much fun to see how creative we can be in product since that isn't something typically available to Marketers due to our coding limitations.
David Gil Pérez
Loved the video! Super cool way to introduce the product, great execution, fun and ... the best mother :)
Ashley Withers
@david_gil_perez the Candu crew is pretty fun ... and so are our parents, apparently :)
Stepan Zastupov
Those who code, feel free to ask you nitty gritty technical questions. We are happy to geek out in the comments.
Ashley Withers
@stepan_zastupov thanks for making Candu awesome. If anyone wants to see just how awesome Stepan is, check out the webinar we did together: https://youtu.be/_TISwuxGi-w He's also a big fan of memes. 🤓
Sumeru Chatterjee
Candu is THE SH%& It makes non-coders super heroes of the customer journey 🦸🏼‍♀️ My journey with Candu starts wayyy back in 2016, when it looked very very different 👀 Since then, I've used Candu at several SaaS startups as well as in my consulting gigs Outside of being an amazing low-code tool to improve your UX, it also has an AMAZING team - I have learned so much from @jonathan_anderson2 @mresposito @georgia_wright_simmons and they continue to stun me with how much they care about their customers If you're on the fence, give this Hunt an upvote and give Candu a spin!
Ashley Withers
@jonathan_anderson2 @mresposito @georgia_wright_simmons @sumeru Thank you for sharing in the excitement with us!! :)
Lauren Cumming
Candu is a gamechanger for creating content within your product! I'm on the team of no-coders and being able to design beautiful looking UI and make it live within the product myself is so satisfying :D (The chrome extension that @philsinsight made is a dream!) As a Customer Success professional using Candu can help you scale your in-app experiences as your customer base grows and help you make real impact on key activation and adoption goals - it's a product I wish I had from day 1 of being in tech. 😍
Ashley Withers
@lauren_cumming22 the proof is in the product ... and your amazing ebook on the topic! <3 I've learned so much from you!
Becky Reich
I still get excited by what the product can do! Thanks to @pprosto I realized we should update the Twitter Share CTA to our Twitter thread URL, not just Twitter. I was able to do that in 5 seconds. Since that Tweet had to be timed with our PH page going live, I didn't have it before. Normally, this would have been something I had to pre-plan a full sprint or two ahead of time with developers so one of them could be on call to update that URL. Wow.
Ashley Withers
@pprosto @becky_reich yes! It is truly a game changer for marketers.
Malavika Balachandran Tadeusz
When you have a technical product with a tricky installation process, onboarding is really critical for success. Candu is helping us make a great onboarding experience without us needing to waste valuable dev time on it. We're able to create personalized experiences based on user personas, and bring a lot of great content to their fingertips.
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@malavika_balachandran Thank you so much for your positive feedback Malavika. Looking forward to seeing your brand new onboarding experience powered by Candu!
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Thank you, @jonathan_anderson2! Please tell your mom, “Hi from Miki.” And BIG thanks again to Ben Lang (@benln) and the Product Hunt community for taking the time to check out Candu. I want to take a moment to celebrate the engineering team. They are the “product” and Product Hunt for us. Please give them a shout and let them know what you think of their hard work! 🚀 @stuart_jc + @prev_wong + @mateusz_drulis for a fast-and-easy-to-use editor and SDK. 🎨 @stepan_zastupov for brand-design magic via the no-code styleguide. ✔️ @rafacianci + Alex for an incredible dashboard and dramatically improved onboarding flow. 📈 @ranjez + @emma_lupton for powerful segmentation, analytics, and integrations. 🔖 @philsinsight for a bad-ass preview extension for Chrome. When Jonathan and I founded Candu in 2018, we saw the need to empower creative development in SaaS products for ALL teams. While some may see the no-code movement as a threat to devs, we see it as a unifier. By dogfooding Candu, we’ve seen firsthand how technical and non-technical teams can create a complete product experience together. While engineers are busy building new features, our customer success and marketing teams are inside the product rapidly prototyping directly embedded UI components that help our customers adopt them. From onboarding checklists to announcement bars and support hubs, we’re evolving the way we respond to the customer journey directly inside the product. The product is the thing that unites everyone at any SaaS company, and now everyone can share in its success. Thank you again, Product Hunt! I look forward to responding to your technical questions and feedback below.
Shemilore Jegede
Candu simplifies User Interface! Just click and drag....remember canva? It's just the same with Candu. You have your website or App created in no time. You don't even need the basic knowledge of coding!
Prosto
Haha, loved the video! I've checked the product, was able to make a design very fast, as there is lots of variety for templates. The GUI is really intuitive and nicely designed. I like no-code products, so totally intend to explore Candu more. Congratulations team!
Michele Riccardo Esposito
@pprosto Thank you very much Prosto. I'm glad you like the product, and I'm looking forward to you using it more and giving us feedback on how we can improve it. Shout out to Rocio https://www.linkedin.com/in/roc%... for the beautiful GUI design :)
Stuart Coope
Congratulations to the whole team! It's incredible how far we've come since beta. Using Candu in house is just so slick, @georgia_wright_simmons, @orfeoyro, @jonathan_anderson2 and @lauren_cumming22, you blow me away with the content you build!
Ashley Withers
@georgia_wright_simmons @orfeoyro @jonathan_anderson2 @lauren_cumming22 @stuart_jc couldn't agree more! It's been amazing to see what our team can do. Our Product Hunt-specific onboarding checklist is the perfect example!
Alexander Zhou
Such a useful product! Definitely can see how this will be of massive help to PMs and CSMs, as I'm a non-technical founder myself :)
Ashley Withers
@alexander_zhou We're glad you think so! Scalable customer experiences are our love language haha! Let us know if you have any questions as you explore!
Prosto
Hi, for the contest, what is the right process to do it? I need to post my dashboard in Twitter in my post or reply in thread? Thank you
Becky Reich
@pprosto all the information is in the checklist in your dashboard (once you sign up for Candu and go through the welcome screens). There is a special template to use in Step Two The contest is to use the Announcement Bar Template, update the message to what your mom would say, screenshot that and share with Candu on Twitter. This is the Twitter thread to comment on: https://twitter.com/CanduLabs/st...
Prosto
@becky_reich Thank you for clarification, will try my best, as a full-feature license for no-code product, sounds very tempting :D