Hey HN! I'm Vlad, CEO and one of the co-founders of Webflow.<p>It was over 6 years ago now, a just several months a rejection email from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), we posted a Show HN about Webflow (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499</a>). It was our last "hail mary" to show something tangible to the world before promising our partners to go back to our old jobs to actually get some income again.<p>Luckily, the Show HN took off like wildfire and we stuck to the #1 spot nearly all day. Tens of thousands of people signed up for our beta. This really helped us reapply to YC with tons more traction (and boundless confidence this time), and we were lucky enough to get in to the next batch.<p>We're now a team of over 120 people across 20 countries, serving billions of requests for tens of thousands of paying customers. I'm very confident that we wouldn't have been able to achieve this had the HN post not taken off here, and we're so thankful for the positive reception. Luckily, we didn't get those funny "I can build this in a day with some bash scripts!" kinds of comments :)<p>Even though it's been many years since then, we're still on the same mission to empower millions more people to build powerful websites (and increasingly, more powerful software!) without code. We believe that in the end, democratizing software creation will multiply the potential of the internet, likely by at least an order of magnitude.<p>A HUGE and humble thank you to the community here, and for your support way back when!