Help designers bypass programmers, Epub360 want to do SaaS platform

There are so many stories about dog and tech homes, so there are a lot of startups that want designers to stop asking programmers for their needs, but to realize their ideas directly. Interactive content design Platform Epub360 is one of them, designers can login to the web to design rich media content, the platform Support Online collaborative editing, support output HTML5 package or Android, iOS version of the app.

Similar products have been WiX abroad, the company, which was founded in 2008, has attracted 51 million registered users to the market at the end of last year. No programming development has become a trend, in this trend there are yapp,weekly and other start-up companies.

Even Epub360 itself is a familiar face, with 20 years of experience in digital media design Chen Jianfeng created the project in 2011, initially aimed at e-books, and the ipad's big sale has allowed many people to see digital publishing opportunities. But the market already has mature software like Adobe InDesign, and there are a lot of similar startups at home and abroad, such as Moglue. The promotion of Epub360 has not improved. January 2012, Apple launched the official E-book production platform, IBooks Author. Under pressure Chen Jianfeng will look to the institutional users, began to expand the company interactive experience Service outsourcing customization.

Some of the projects undertaken during that time allowed Chen Jianfeng and his team to accumulate experience in HTML5 editors and digital content management systems. 2013, missed a large outsourcing Chen Jianfeng decided to restart the Epub360, the second half of the formal on-line, to achieve the program-free digital interactive content. The core value of Epub360 is online collaborative editing, Cross-platform delivery and data hosting. "We're not just providing a few templates," Chen Jianfeng told 36 Krypton.

Epub360 current customers are mainly some media, advertising and animation companies. Another case is that earlier this year Epub360 and renowned photographer Zhang Chuli collaborated to quickly publish the latter's album in the Americas and get a good rating on the App Store.

Early in July, EPUB360 began to support the design and release of the micro-end interactive content, and an employee created a "hammer phone" micro-interactive advertisement on its own platform. The outbreak of mobile Internet, the infiltration of 4G and the HTML5 Unified River have given rich media the opportunity to develop the content.

Chen Jianfeng said September will be released Coolsuite, not only to carry out the management and design of Web pages, but also to the public platform, users can directly carry out micro-letter content management. CoolApp360, which is positioned to design and manage apps online, is also in the process of planning. EPUB360 future positioning is the SaaS platform for content management.

Epub360 Free users can submit 10 interactive content, retaining 2G cloud space. More resources are paid on a monthly basis, and individual servers can be deployed for enterprise-level users. EPUB360 currently has 13,000 registered users. However, from the Forum and the official blog's active degree, still in the early stage of promotion, the team is also in the process of fixing bugs.

At present, 12 employees, age structure from forums to all have, but almost all of the technical background, which makes the promotion of products encountered no small trouble. Chen Jianfeng that the failure of three years ago was due to a lack of BD experience. Last year they came to 36 krypton seeking coverage also expressed a desire to "promote relevant support."