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Show HN: WeeBrix - Online Website builder

2 points by etewiah 10y ago

Hello there, We've created this online website builder for the real estate market and would love to hear your feedback about what it does well and what it needs to improve on. You can try it out for free and with no obligation here: http://weebrix.com

etewiah 10y ago
Would also be interested in hearing what people think of the name. It is a reference to building a property website with little (wee) bricks (brix) but also happens to sound a bit like wix and weebly ;)
- smt88 10y ago
  Did you have a lawyer do a name search for you and assess the name? It may be dangerously similar to Weebly...
  - etewiah 10y ago
    Thanks for the advice. I would image a lawyer would charge a fortune just to talk to me. Any ideas of online resources about this topic that I could use to get an idea of the risk?
    - smt88 10y ago
      There isn't a concrete answer. A judge would try to determine whether consumers could be confused by your name and believe that it was somehow tied to Weebly. The results of such cases are all over the place and depend on lots of different factors. That's where a lawyer comes in. S/he will be able to give you an idea of overall risk, rather than a hard "yes" or "no" answer as to whether you can use the name. The only way to assess the risk is to have experience reading about (and ideally representing someone in) such cases. Some law can be done "well enough" yourself, but some things absolutely require a lawyer. Founding documents and name searches are absolutely in the latter category. Find a lawyer in your city who specializes in startups and get an hour of time. You're mostly paying for experience, not for raw time, so it won't be expensive. You can expect $0-$100 on the lower end, especially if it's trying to get you into the office to sell more work. The most you might expect to pay is $500. Don't worry about the price, and instead try to find the right person -- someone who has been practicing for years and has lots of cases under his/her belt. Edit: I actually just realized that if your comment about WeeBrix sounding like Weebly is searchable in the future, it would seriously hurt you in a lawsuit. If you intend to keep the name, you should delete that immediately and hope that there aren't any archiving/caching services that picked it up.
      - etewiah 10y ago
        Thanks for the advice. I'll ask on a few more forums. Regarding my comment, I do make it clear that my primary reason for picking it is that it has a connection to website builders for the property sector. The fact that it sounds like a competitor is secondary.
andrewfromx 10y ago
i tried the site. I uploaded a logo and changed the colors from the default but the generated site was kinda a mess. The logo and colors did not work well. It would be cool if you could select a color theme and it would automatically pick 3 colors that work well together vs. making me select RGB values.
- etewiah 10y ago
  Thanks for trying it out and the quick feedback - awesome. I found out when working with some customers here that people disagreed a lot on what colors work well together. In the end I figured the quickest way to get off the ground would be to let people select colors themselves. In the end I think people who care enough to have a logo for their business will have some idea of what colors they want to use.
etewiah 10y ago
BTW, here is an example of a website created with weebrix: http://gooddeals.weebrix.com/ar/home http://gooddeals.weebrix.com/ar/home

2 points by etewiah 10y ago

etewiah 10y ago

Would also be interested in hearing what people think of the name. It is a reference to building a property website with little (wee) bricks (brix) but also happens to sound a bit like wix and weebly ;)

smt88 10y ago
Did you have a lawyer do a name search for you and assess the name? It may be dangerously similar to Weebly...
- etewiah 10y ago
  Thanks for the advice. I would image a lawyer would charge a fortune just to talk to me. Any ideas of online resources about this topic that I could use to get an idea of the risk?
  - smt88 10y ago
    There isn't a concrete answer. A judge would try to determine whether consumers could be confused by your name and believe that it was somehow tied to Weebly. The results of such cases are all over the place and depend on lots of different factors. That's where a lawyer comes in. S/he will be able to give you an idea of overall risk, rather than a hard "yes" or "no" answer as to whether you can use the name. The only way to assess the risk is to have experience reading about (and ideally representing someone in) such cases. Some law can be done "well enough" yourself, but some things absolutely require a lawyer. Founding documents and name searches are absolutely in the latter category. Find a lawyer in your city who specializes in startups and get an hour of time. You're mostly paying for experience, not for raw time, so it won't be expensive. You can expect $0-$100 on the lower end, especially if it's trying to get you into the office to sell more work. The most you might expect to pay is $500. Don't worry about the price, and instead try to find the right person -- someone who has been practicing for years and has lots of cases under his/her belt. Edit: I actually just realized that if your comment about WeeBrix sounding like Weebly is searchable in the future, it would seriously hurt you in a lawsuit. If you intend to keep the name, you should delete that immediately and hope that there aren't any archiving/caching services that picked it up.
    - etewiah 10y ago
      Thanks for the advice. I'll ask on a few more forums. Regarding my comment, I do make it clear that my primary reason for picking it is that it has a connection to website builders for the property sector. The fact that it sounds like a competitor is secondary.

andrewfromx 10y ago

i tried the site. I uploaded a logo and changed the colors from the default but the generated site was kinda a mess. The logo and colors did not work well. It would be cool if you could select a color theme and it would automatically pick 3 colors that work well together vs. making me select RGB values.

etewiah 10y ago
Thanks for trying it out and the quick feedback - awesome. I found out when working with some customers here that people disagreed a lot on what colors work well together. In the end I figured the quickest way to get off the ground would be to let people select colors themselves. In the end I think people who care enough to have a logo for their business will have some idea of what colors they want to use.

etewiah 10y ago

BTW, here is an example of a website created with weebrix: http://gooddeals.weebrix.com/ar/home http://gooddeals.weebrix.com/ar/home