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Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

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Re: Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

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Post by drusenko »

ujeezy wrote: post #7
drusenko wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here it is: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/07/08/july-2011-web-s...

Thanks David, but I actually still don't see it on there. No biggie; it's just such an impressive stat that I want to see it with my own eyes :)

"In the July 2011 survey we received responses from 357,292,065 sites."

We're using the total published sites on the Weebly platform divided by that number to get our percentage of the total.

We could probably use active sites and put up a higher percentage, although that number is much harder to calculate...

Re: Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

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Post by drusenko »

d0m wrote: post #3

A little bit like emacs, it seems to do everything? : )

I'm actually a vim user :)

So we're trying to tackle all of the hard problems with creating a website. Sometimes that means we develop very specific tools that just don't have a good solution yet, like our written-from-scratch ImagePerfect image editor.

In this case, we think designers still have it a bit rough. They end up doing a lot of things that aren't related to designing, like managing a hosting environment, or upgrading Wordpress when new vulnerabilities come out (or recovering from a hacked site). Then they have to continue doing inane little tweaks to the website on an unrealistic budget.

We're trying to make the designer's life easier with an integrated solution, and their clients happier by letting them log on and update their website themselves.

Re: Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

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Post by ujeezy »

drusenko wrote: post #11
ujeezy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks David, but I actually still don't see it on there. No biggie; it's just such an impressive stat that I want to see it with my own eyes :)

"In the July 2011 survey we received responses from 357,292,065 sites." We're using the total published sites on the Weebly platform divided by that number to get our percentage of the total. We could probably use active sites and put up a higher percentage, although that number is much harder to calculate...

Gotcha – very cool, and well done!

Re: Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers

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Post by noodle »

the only feature i'd like to see is the ability to plug in functionality, like the ability to create your own front- or back-end plugins or an app store type of thing similar to shopify.

of course, i know that this isn't a simple request or even a likely one, as it causes all kinds of issues, but i'd start using this immediately if it were provided.

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