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Congrats to these folks. But I have a serious, genuine question: How many of these click-and-drag, WYSIWYG website creators are we going to see? I get there's
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
Congrats to these folks. But I have a serious, genuine question: How many of these click-and-drag, WYSIWYG website creators are we going to see?
I get there's a need for the long-tail of web traffic (small businesses, etc) to create an internet presence. But is it all that profitable, which I imagine is plenty of competition to undercut your prices? I don't know how a Wix, etc. can stand out or have a competitive advantage in this space. There are so many of them it seems.
- Gys 7y agoIt might be all about projecting a number of tiny businesses without websites yet (or not maintained, or old, or only on FB, etc) and convince VCs that you can get a large cut of those.
- frenchman99 7y agoI've heard great things about Squarespace's customer service, which is why I recommend them. So from my perspective, customer service can be one way to differentiate one company from the other.
- rstupek 7y agoI know Wix isn't making any money yet losing $30-$50M a year
- shubhamjain 7y agoWebflow is different. It doesn't limit to set of templates and their styling, which most other site builders do. It's a GUI layer above raw CSS and HTML, which gives you the ability to build virtually anything. It's an order of magnitude more powerful than its competitors. Webflow's own website[1] is a great example of what you can make with it. Considering how many marketing departments I have seen struggling to pull someone from the dev team to fix a tiny, tiny change, this is a massive opportunity. [1]: https://webflow.com/ https://webflow.com/
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoSo when there isn't a template to do what you need, you have to know CSS and HTML, and must code yourself. The premise is "no-code". The uniqueness of this editor is it's ability to play nicely with anything you write yourself.
- davidivadavid 7y agoNope. You don't have to code anything. That's the whole point. If you don't have a template, you start from a blank page and you build it using the GUI.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoMy original discussion point (top-level comment) was that feature alone doesn't sound like much of a differentiator from other WYSIWYG web builders out there.
- callmevlad 7y agoThat is, in fact, our main differentiator – and the main reason people choose Webflow. Check out this very diverse set of sites [1] that can be built with Webflow, this ability to visually develop any kind of custom layout/experience really does go a long way to distance us from any competitors. [1] https://webflow.com/discover/popular https://webflow.com/discover/popular
- tempsy 7y agoWell, ironically Lambda School uses Webflow (https://twitter.com/austen/status/1159145385891205120 https://twitter.com/austen/status/1159145385891205120), so it's not just "mom and pop" small businesses that are customers. If anything, those businesses would be better served using something like SquareSpace or Wix, not Webflow.
- awad 7y agoEven if you remove the massive long tail for a second, there's huge opportunity in the enterprise. I've never really met a marketing team satisfied with the speed in which they're able to create, edit, and deploy changes. A bit hyperbolic of course, but there's definitely room in the market.