How does Weebly make money? I guess this Designers platform is the first step?
Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers
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#22How does Weebly make money? I guess this Designers platform is the first step?
Weebly has been profitable since 2008. We make money by selling Pro accounts and domain names.
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#23Wow, this is pretty huge. There's a big gap between designers and developers particularly in the smb market. Youll have designers that don't know how to develop make brochure-style sites that business owners don't know how to develop. Or you'll have developers make an editable site that looks like crap. If you want both you have to pay a lot of money. For designers Weebly now takes the place of the developer and give…
Problem is some companies wants to go outside the 'template', and that's where direct manipulation gets really tricky when you got a different customer every month.
I work as a product designer for a norwegian CMS, and I would die to make it drag'n'drop direct manipulation-icious. But almost all of our BigCo customers demands solutions outside the regular blog/template, which then would give us two options.
a) Customize direct manipulation for each customer (expensive)
b) Semi-direct manipulation which launches TinyMCE and other micro controls when a users clicks a particular part of content.
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#24This would have been soo helpful years ago when I started out doing web work for small businesses. Instead I used trash like webstarts.com
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#25Wow, this is pretty huge. There's a big gap between designers and developers particularly in the smb market. Youll have designers that don't know how to develop make brochure-style sites that business owners don't know how to develop. Or you'll have developers make an editable site that looks like crap. If you want both you have to pay a lot of money. For designers Weebly now takes the place of the developer and give…
Problem is some companies wants to go outside the 'template', and that's where direct manipulation gets really tricky when you got a different customer every month. I work as a product designer for a norwegian CMS, and I would die to make it drag'n'drop direct manipulation-icious. But almost all of our BigCo customers demands solutions outside the regular blog/template, which then would give us two options. a) Custom…
You should checkout http://www.webpop.com (disclaimer, I'm the co-founder).
We've managed to make a dead simple on-site editing interface that works with any design, without any need to stick to any 'template'.
Our goal is to allow designers with a knowledge of HTML and CSS to make completely custom designed websites that a client can easily (and safely) keep up to date.
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#26This is awesome! You're killing it!
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#27Seems like you've created a very polished control panel. I'm working on a wysiwyg web editor so I'm curious to know which javascript/css frameworks you've used.
We started in 2006 and Prototype was the dominant framework back then, so we're still using that for the editor. Everything else is custom written.
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#28Is there any plan for a designer API? I'd love to automate some of the functions on the designer platform for an idea I have.
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#29Is there any plan for a designer API? I'd love to automate some of the functions on the designer platform for an idea I have.
Absolutely, it's in the pipeworks!
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#30Seems like you've created a very polished control panel. I'm working on a wysiwyg web editor so I'm curious to know which javascript/css frameworks you've used.
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