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callmevlad

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About callmevlad

Hey there, I'm Vlad.

I'm a co-founder and CEO of Webflow (YC S13). We're cooking up some amazing tools for web designers and developers. If you're interested in joining our team, send me a note to vlad@webflow.com :)

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    I absolutely don't think this is the case, and paradoxically something like Webflow actually creates more demand for coders and software engineers. Today, only 0.25% of the world k…

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    Comment #25795617

    Yes, she is now, thank you for asking!

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    Comment #25792733

    (continued from OP) Now came the time to get users. We were targeting mostly designers and non-technical folks – so we posted it on Digg (heh, remember those days?), Reddit, and se…

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    Thanks HN: You helped save a company that now helps thousands make a living

    Dear HN, I’m feeling a deep sense of gratitude this morning, and wanted to share it with you all. On this day in 2013, the Webflow co-founders were huddled around our usual desk th…

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    Comment #20638991

    Thank you so much for the kind words, and so happy to see that you've found Webflow to be so useful! Go Blanka!

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    Comment #20637680

    I honestly don't think it was a mistake the first time. We had almost nothing to show for what we wanted to build, it must have looked like a toy at the time. Our first application…

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    Comment #20637545

    Thank you, Glen!

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    Comment #20637538

    Thanks Brandon!

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    Comment #20637513

    Yes, you can! https://university.webflow.com/article/embed One thing to note is that we're also creating visual abstractions over common things that are hand-coded with JS. For exa…

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    Comment #20637491

    That is, in fact, our main differentiator – and the main reason people choose Webflow. Check out this very diverse set of sites [1] that can be built with Webflow, this ability to …

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    Comment #20637468

    Hey HN! I'm Vlad, CEO and one of the co-founders of Webflow. It was over 6 years ago now, a just several months a rejection email from YC and a few weeks from being essentially ban…

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    Comment #18203001

    A quick clarification - the output of Webflow actually works across all modern browsers, but the design tool itself has more limited browser support. One of the biggest challenges …

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    Comment #18202975

    Here's a direct link to the playground that skips the landing page: https://webflow.com/css-grid-playground :)

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    Comment #18194325

    Hello again, HN! Almost 6 years ago to the day, I received an email from YC about our application being rejected – I still remember that feeling of almost wanting to give up, but a…

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    Comment #16414574

    What we posted got shared in various other places (Designer News, Twitter, Reddit, etc), which might we why it was higher. But Hacker News was definitely the catalyst of it all.

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    Comment #16414558

    Thanks for sharing this, Sam!

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    Comment #16411353

    It’s rendered on the server with React + Apollo + GraphQL, just like all the other Webflow-powered websites out there! ;)

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    Comment #16411029

    Yeah, the first year even after YC funding was very tough. Long story short: sold a car, borrowed a ton on those credit card write-yourself-a-check 2% balance transfer deals (thank…

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    Comment #16411017

    Thanks! And sorry for the FF snag - we’re working on supporting Firefox later this year!

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    Comment #16410630

    Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic …

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    Comment #15396770

    It seems like you've posted in the wrong thread. Companies hiring should post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15384262

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    Comment #15185042

    > "But at the end of the day, you have to know CSS anyway" If you string-replace "CSS" with "assembly", most of Bret Victor's "The Future of Programming" [1] still seems to apply. …