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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

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Post by soared »

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…

This is problem for every website theme - even lots of bootstrap themes depend on glorious images. Designers who build themes have access to great images and so they use them constantly.

Even searching for wordpress themes (of which millions exist) recently I had to ignore 75% of what I saw because they have a huge hero or full column images.

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

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Post by salimmadjd »

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…

I like what you guys have been doing. What I want is an integrated CMS (content management system) that I can easily manage content, text and images. Create new content nodes to combing e-commerce with content.

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

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Post by andrewdbass »

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…

David, Weebly is amazing! It's what I used for some of my earliest projects and kinda want got me started down the path of web development. Glad to see that it is growing!

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

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Post by SwellJoe »

Weebly is one of the companies from our batch (W07) that I would have wanted to invest in, if given the opportunity. They just build really cool products for non-technical folks. I've been recommending them for years (even though they kinda/sorta indirectly compete with what we build).

I've been surprised by how important and effective email still is to most small businesses, and it's a hard problem to solve; having it integrated with the rest of your site and commerce solution is even harder. Ecommerce is a more obvious need, but has a lot more solutions available, including for non-technical folks.

Congrats on launching cool new stuff all these years later!

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

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Post by bballer »

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…

For some stock photography that doesn't feel so "stocky" check out this repo

https://github.com/heyalexej/awesome-images

There are some really good sites in there that have very high quality photos free for use. My two favorites are:

http://www.gratisography.com/

http://isorepublic.com/

Not to diminish your point that more themes need to gear themselves towards imageless content, this is just a good place to start for those working on budgets.

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

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Post by sixhobbits »

kfk wrote: post #17

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

I live in the Netherlands and don't speak Dutch. Got redirected to /nl/4, which is almost all in English but has some of the headings in Dutch. Pretty sure it's not intentional..

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

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Post by jcater »

drusenko wrote: post #10
HorizonXP wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi David! This looks pretty fantastic! Well done on getting this together and launching! I think we should always congratulate folks who get to the launch phase, no matter their size/age. :-) I have a friend that reached out to me about setting up a website for her business that she's starting with some friends. I was originally going to suggest Shopify to her, especially since we're in Canada. I went to your pricing…

Thanks! Yes, Canada is a very important market for us, and we think our ecommerce platform with Weebly 4 is incredibly competitive with Shopify for most non-enterprise use cases. We have a couple big advantages over Shopify: first, the content customization side of things with a WYSIWYG editor -- it's awesome for people who aren't technical, and saves you a lot of time if you are -- and second, deeply integrated emai…

Are there examples of reporting available for the e-commerce part?

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

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Post by reviseddamage »

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…

Hi, for your ecommerce, are you a payment facilitator or do you use a third party partner.

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

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Post by stevoski »

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…

I just followed your link on an English-language website (Hacker News) in response to an English-language comment (yours) on my iPad (running in English, my mother tongue and main language) while in Spain (where I live)

Your site was presented to me in Spanish. Please don't do this. Don't choose a language for me based on my location.

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