> As a result, many of our Webflow teammates are leaving the company today
What a disgusting way to phrase that.
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#12> As a result, many of our Webflow teammates are leaving the company today What a disgusting way to phrase that.
Why? How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?
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#13Wix is also doing layoffs:
https://www.gurufocus.com/news/8881760/wix-plans-major-layof...
Never used either, but these are similar “no code” platforms, right?
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#14> As a result, many of our Webflow teammates are leaving the company today What a disgusting way to phrase that.
Why? How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?
> How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?
Step 1, stop using AI as an excuse?
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#15Misleading headline. This is layoffs, not a redesign.
Well, to be fair, they didn't say "redesign" anywhere, and Webflow is the name of the company, so I don't find it too strange that the "evolution" of a company involves layoffs. Maybe I'm just too jaded to these "An update on ..." announcements, but this really didn't strike me as bad. At the very least, they announced the layoffs in the very first paragraph, rather than beating around the bush.
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#16I couldnt get through the corpo-speak and AI slop
But I am a webflow customer looking at ripping it out of our stack and just having it maintained by our team with alternative tools, powered by Claude/Codex.
I planned to follow some flavor of this -https://x.com/anitakirkovska/status/2053941736049967285?s=20
We currently pay almost $5k/year for hosting/licenses and its just not feeling worth it.
(disclaimer - still believe Webflow is 10x Wordpress!)
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#17Wix is also doing layoffs: https://www.gurufocus.com/news/8881760/wix-plans-major-layof... Never used either, but these are similar “no code” platforms, right?
Yes, but webflow is far more featured and robust than Wix.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?
> How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings? Step 1, stop using AI as an excuse?
Step 2, don't use "leaving the company" as a euphemism for "getting laid off", as the former implies employee agency and choice they don't actually have.
The entire post is a green-beige sludge of corpspeak, euphemisms, and AI slop. Who fucking talks like this anyway?
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#19the amount of "restructuring" Webflow has gone through is wild
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#20> We’re going to lead by example. Our own marketing team will be among the first proof points for what a modern marketing organization can look like when it is paired with AI agents in its day-to-day work.
Interesting that it's not the development team that gets to start with using AI agents (unless they are already?), but instead the marketing team. I guess long-term quality matters less there, you just want something OK fast, then LLMs actually makes a lot of sense, it is basically what we've ended up calling "slop" anyways, and marketing seems like a natural fit.
Interesting contrast compared to "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit" from the other HN submission right now, as that one claims mostly software engineers are using agents, meanwhile Webflow starts with the marketing team, I'm guessing they see it as obvious somehow.