Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

Post by drusenko » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 8:23 PM UTC

lovskogen wrote: post #23

OmarIsmail wrote: post #6

Wow, 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…

Post by bobfunk » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 8:32 PM UTC

lovskogen wrote: post #31

bobfunk wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's what I meant with b), which is how we do it too. But it's not the best solution, which is direct manipulation – no 'form window' to edit the content of a page. Which, as stated, is hard when you got demanding customers with very different needs for a website.

Post by inthewoods » Wed, Aug 03, 2011, 10:45 PM UTC

drusenko wrote: post #22

inthewoods wrote: post #21

How 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.

Post by lovskogen » Thu, Aug 04, 2011, 7:37 AM UTC

bobfunk wrote: post #34

lovskogen wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I meant with b), which is how we do it too. But it's not the best solution, which is direct manipulation – no 'form window' to edit the content of a page. Which, as stated, is hard when you got demanding customers with very different needs for a website.

I'm not actually convinced a) is the best solution though. For some things it is, but once you work with structured data that might show up in different places and might be displayed in different ways in those places, it's not always the best. It works for simple pages where there's no real separation between content and design, but once you have text that's transformed to uppercase in one place because of a "text-tr…

Post by orangeturtle » Sat, Aug 13, 2011, 7:01 PM UTC

BvS wrote: post #35

I'm not sure if I get the pricing right: using Weebly pro I'm paying 4,58 US$ a month max. and can use it on 10 Domains. If I use Weebly Designers I pay up to 24,95 US$ for a single domain. So the possibility for my own branding justifies a price increase of up to 50x or am I missing something?