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

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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…

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

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Post by Magicstatic »

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 David -

Love the new design. I wanted to ask you - Is it possible we can see the return of the affiliate program sometime soon with Weebly?

Thanks and best of the luck!

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

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Post by _audakel »

stevoski wrote: post #30
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.

You are probably an outlier, in that majority of ip requests coming from spain are going to want spanish. it makes sense to render default in spanish. I am not sure what headers your ipad is sending, but i doubt it sends what your language preference is. (i could be wrong)

also, as previous sites don't add the chosen language in the click request, i don't see how being on hn previously is relevant.

the flip side to this is - if this is actually a big problem (incorrect renderings of language) maybe some dnn could be applied for a new start up idea! haha

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…

It seems you still don't manage adding and collecting EU VAT? That's a dealbreaker for anyone in the EU wanting to use you for an online store.

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

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Post by drusenko »

stevoski wrote: post #30
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.

This one is really tricky. You'll see this same behavior by Google, Facebook, and most other major providers. We spent a lot of time looking into this, it's unfortunately a very complex situation:

1- In theory browser language should be the perfect way to do it, in practice as often as 25% of the time or more it's set incorrectly. Unfortunately, that means a lot of people that don't speak English end up with English content.

2- There is more than just language, in several regions we are localized and not just translated. So it's important to send specific content for the region, like prices, specific local features (e.g. payment methods), specific photography to better appeal to the local audience, local user stories & articles, etc.

3- It's especially hard with English because that is, in essence, the "default" language. If your browser language is set to Spanish and you live in Germany, we'll respect that, but it's a bit harder to do with English.

We're definitely open to input on how to handle it better... One step forward would be to bring the language selector up to the top of the page so it is much more accessible.

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

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Post by drusenko »

Magicstatic wrote: post #32
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 David - Love the new design. I wanted to ask you - Is it possible we can see the return of the affiliate program sometime soon with Weebly? Thanks and best of the luck!

Yes! Can you email me at david@weebly.com? Thanks!

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

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Post by _audakel »

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…

Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

https://unsplash.com/

I use them alot, great selection of really unique shots.

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

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Post by drusenko »

reviseddamage wrote: post #29
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.

You can use a number of merchant payment providers, currently Stripe, Square, Paypal and Authorize.net, so you have lots of options.

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

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Post by stevoski »

_audakel wrote: post #33
stevoski wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You are probably an outlier, in that majority of ip requests coming from spain are going to want spanish. it makes sense to render default in spanish. I am not sure what headers your ipad is sending, but i doubt it sends what your language preference is. (i could be wrong) also, as previous sites don't add the chosen language in the click request, i don't see how being on hn previously is relevant. the flip side to t…

I'm an outlier indeed, but plenty of people live or travel in countries that use languages they don't speak or prefer, and don't want find themselves redirected to websites they don't understand.

Spanish speakers (in Spain at least) tend to come from google.es, which prefers Spanish-language results, or from Spanish language links and discussions.

It is wrong behaviour to choose my language based on my location.

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