Weebly CEO David Rusenko: It’s Time to Take Us Seriously

I just booked an interview with him for Mixergy.<p>Anything I should know about Weebly? Or that I should ask about?

Weebly website creator for iPhone is an amazing experience. The hands down easiest way to make a website that I've seen.

Why would they need or want to go public? It sounds like they already have a great product and they're profitable. Do they need to raise money for something in particular?

It's harder to take you seriously when your name is Weebly. Just saying. ;)<p>The websites! They weebly and they wobble but they never fall down!

10 years ago only enthusiasts could create a website. 5 years ago more people could thanks to Wordpress. What will come in 5 or 10 years from now? I feel like Weebly is coming close to that <i>99% consumer's needs</i> tipping point.

I think that building sites and applications with tools along the lines of Weebly is going to become fairly mainstream even for people who call themselves software developers.<p>My question about Weebly: how do I create my own widgets? I saw something on a page at developers.weebly.com that said something about emailing someone, I think his name is Chris?<p>I am working on my own system based on Node.js/HTML5 which will be totally open and make it easy for developers to create and publish their own widgets/plugins right in the interface with their github accounts. I am extremely early on but I am hoping by the 7th I can have a very basic demo ready. The code such as it is is at <a href="https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ithkuil/cureblog</a> .. on the remote chance that anyone has any thoughts related to my project.

Two things for weebly to improve IMO:<p>More templates. You just can't have too many.<p>A better undo when editing. It seems to not work sometimes. Also it would be great if it had versioning so if an employees totally goofs I can just revert.

I had not heard of Weebly before. I just looked at their website and two things turned me off:<p>1. No pricing information, other than “It’s Free”. Is everything in Weebly free? If it is, I assume there is not much it does, which makes me lose interest in it. If it is not, I want to know the details before signing up.<p>2. aboutus.php: Can Weebly not do clean URLs? If it can, then why do I see “.php” on the Weebly site itself?

This does seem like the perfect solution for recommending to or building quick websites for friends and family!

Just gotta say congrats to these guys. Such a beautiful example of determined and consistent execution.

I hope I can buy their stock long before Wall Street starts to take them seriously.

How is this different from Geocities or the half-dozen other me-too free, easy website providers we had the last time around the internet bubble merry-go-round? The feature lists even look pretty similar.<p>Or is that too long ago for anybody to remember? I worked for a startup that was racking up millions of hits a day and chewing through tens of millions of dollars in funding in <i>1999</i>. Guess what? It's really hard to make money this way.<p>I'm starting to suspect Prince knew a lot more than he was saying when he wrote that song.

Weebly is awesome. I recommend it to every non-techie friend who asks me for help setting up a website. So happy to see them doing well building a solid fundamental technology.

If you want an interesting puzzle from Weebly, check out their jobs page: <a href="http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.weebly.com/jobs.php</a><p>Prior HN Discussion on the Puzzle: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892693" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892693</a><p>I just spent a solid 2.5 hours working on it... Fun stuff and I learned a lot about the Chrome Developer Tools!

For a (way too long) moment I thought their Designer Platform cost [1] $7.95/month for 15 <i>domains</i>... The fact that it isn't the case hints that they may provide reliable hosting.<p>[1] <a href="http://designers.weebly.com/designer_pricing.php" rel="nofollow">http://designers.weebly.com/designer_pricing.php</a>

I've not actually heard of these guys before (maybe I've not been paying enough attention) but this looks like a fantastic product/service.<p>This looks to be perfect for me to recommend to friends and family who want me to create them "a quick website", with minimal costs.<p>The iPhone app video looks pretty compelling. Congrats.