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Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

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Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#11

Post by djb_hackernews »

drusenko wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, David (founder/ceo) of Weebly here. We’re really excited about this launch, Weebly is now a platform to power a business online with websites, ecommerce, and email marketing all under one roof. In case you haven’t heard of us, we were W07 (one of the first YC batches) — 9 years later, over 40M people have created their site or store on Weebly, and 325M people around the world and half of the US populati…

Big fan of Weebly.

The main background images for each of your linked themes took a very long time to load, > 14s.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#12

Post by drusenko »

djb_hackernews wrote: post #11
drusenko wrote: post #2

Hey everyone, David (founder/ceo) of Weebly here. We’re really excited about this launch, Weebly is now a platform to power a business online with websites, ecommerce, and email marketing all under one roof. In case you haven’t heard of us, we were W07 (one of the first YC batches) — 9 years later, over 40M people have created their site or store on Weebly, and 325M people around the world and half of the US populati…

Big fan of Weebly. The main background images for each of your linked themes took a very long time to load, > 14s.

Thanks for the feedback, looking into it now, looks like they can be compressed much more heavily.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#13

Post by atourgates »

One thing I've noticed on Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar "DIY without any coding" website platforms is that all their themes depend on having excellent photography.

Excellent photography is great, but many of the small businesses who are primarily targeted with these services, don't have it. And stock photography looks like, well, stock photography.

I'd love to see a service like this embrace themes that don't depend on great photography. Themes that make good use of typography and other non-image visual elements.

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#14

Post by drusenko »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #9

This looks fantastic. We are moving our store from an older CRM and looking for an alternative. We were set on bigCommerce... Can we bring our own HTML/CSS and integrate with Weebly? Even with custom payment flows?

Yes! You can absolutely do that and customize quite a bit, although the payment flow is not fully customizable. Check out the docs here: https://dev.weebly.com/use-partials.html

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#15

Post by drusenko »

atourgates wrote: post #13

One thing I've noticed on Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar "DIY without any coding" website platforms is that all their themes depend on having excellent photography. Excellent photography is great, but many of the small businesses who are primarily targeted with these services, don't have it. And stock photography looks like, well, stock photography. I'd love to see a service like this embrace themes that…

Very true. Great photography is key for a great looking site. We do have some good stock photography available, but it will never look as good as the real deal.

I love your suggestion for more typography focused themes!

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#18

Post by drusenko »

inputcoffee wrote: post #5

Obviously, this isn't competing with someone who is spinning up their own Django/Rails/Node solution. The big questions that come to mind: 1. How does this compare with hosting Wordpress. I like that with Wordpress, if some issue comes up, you can find someone who knows the innards and program what you need. Does the user have that level of access? 2. How does it compare with WIX, and the other site building competit…

1. Wordpress is probably better if you really want a platform to build something very custom off of, so in that sense it would be an alternative to a Django/Rails/Node solution. The downside is that it's a lot of work to both build and maintain, worrying about scaling, ongoing security patches and maintenance, etc.

2. One, Weebly is a much more intuitive, easy to use platform, two, we have a powerful ecommerce platform built-in (Wix doesn't have this), three, we have iOS and Android apps to create or manage everything from (no one else has that), four, we have a deep developer ecosystem (over 200 third party apps and integrations, the most of any platform), and five, the website, ecommerce, and email marketing is deeply integrated, others are more a collection of pieces.

3. Yes! There are a ton of APIs to build into Weebly, check it out here: http://dev.weebly.com/. You can also just copy and paste any code you want into your site with the embed code element. And if you're just looking to showcase code on your site, check this out: https://www.weebly.com/app-center/code-block?ref=ac-collecti...

Re: Show HN: Weebly 4 – Websites, eCommerce and Email Marketing

#20

Post by detaro »

kfk wrote: post #17

Good, but I live in Germany and I don't speak German, so how do I read the content?

by switching the language with the button hidden at the very bottom right of the page, which leads here: https://www.weebly.com/?lang=en

Really could be more prominent, at least on first page load.

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