There are a handful of companies in YC (aside from my own) that I would love to personally invest in (if I were in the position to invest). Weebly is definitely near the top of the list, and was from the first moment I saw it during Winter '07. They're totally pragmatic, and just get things done...not one information astronaut in the bunch.<p>And they work in that space where nobody wants to be: technology for newbies. A couple of folks in this thread are criticizing Weebly for the very things that make it so explosively successful. I'd advise anyone who thinks they're smarter than the Weebly folks to pause for a moment, and think about traffic, and what it means for there to be 1 <i>million</i> websites at Weebly. That's one million occasions where someone browsed to the site, filled out the form, and went through the process of creating a website. How many people have signed up for your web application? How many made it to actually using it to do real work? And how much money does your app make if you imagine 1% of those users being willing to pay you a monthly fee? When the number of people committed enough to create something with your site reaches a million, you almost can't <i>not</i> make money with it.
Congrats. On a side note, venturebeat is full of funding announcements today, kind of a counterpoint to all the sky is falling stuff from the last two weeks. Good companies seem to be thriving.
I just spent a good fifteen minutes trying to find out how much Weebly charges for the pro accounts and I still don't know. What is it with websites hiding their pricing? Argh.
congrats to the weebly crew, this is an awesome product, I recently used it to help my mom setup a simple website and within a few minutes we were adding content and photos, no dumb server to deal with and no constant barrage of new versions to worry about. It was way easier than wordpress and fit the need perfectly. its dope to hear about small startups, building incremental value and reaching key milestones, far more interesting than another huge VC funding round for a company with no business model.
Congrats!! I love Weebly - a few weeks ago I was doing a post about how easy it is to create an online web shop using a local startup, and even after wasting 20 mins trying to fiddle around with a similar site, I was still able to get the site up in under 2 hours. Absolutely the right balance between ease of use for noobs and flexibility for more advanced users. <a href="http://tinyurl.com/weeblyrocks" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/weeblyrocks</a>
yep congratultions guys. have to say that i love weebly so much i had to pay up for 2 years. im also looking forward for their implementation of new features which are said to include, complete control over the html and css.
Not to be negative but they have existed for 3 years and that is all they have produced? Maybe I missed something when I tried it a couple of months ago but it seemed more like something that had been around for 3 weeks. I really wanted something like it but for sure there wasn't much to it.
Some simple drag and drop features but nothing that let a noob create a cool webpage by just dragging and dropping.<p>Did I manage to miss the point?