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Let me throw out a hypothetical, you're helping a band get off the ground. They just need a landing page for people to find out about the shows and by merchand

Let me throw out a hypothetical, you're helping a band get off the ground. They just need a landing page for people to find out about the shows and by merchandise. Wix and other website builders work fantastically for this. I consider myself a pretty decent programmer, but I absolutely hate front end development so I tend to use a website builder. The only thing you need for my website is a link to my privacy policy ( Apple makes you create a page for this ) and a link to download the game. I actually did work with a band once and the leader got mad with me when I suggested hosting our own thing. He prefer to pay the $20 a month for Wix and so we went

dubcanada 5y ago
I have NO problem with a basic page builder, let me get that out there and if I made it seem like I did, apologies. My problem is specifically with Wix and the garbage they produce. I've done hundreds of Squarespace, Webflow, etc etc sites and they are perfectly fine. I see no reason a band needs to pay someone or have an agency build a site for them. My problem is a company marketing themselves as the next best thing, when really it's probably one of the worst products I've ever used (even spinning up a WordPress instance, installing a random page builder plugin is better then the results you get from Wix).
- offtop5 5y ago
  To be completely frank, to the layman Wix gets the job done. In a perfect world they'd spend less money marketing and more on building good products, but they're aiming for non-technical people who will create a Wix page and then forget about it. I don't like Wix ether, but their business model is definitely working.
  - dubcanada 5y ago
    So does uploading a PDF as your whole site. Or calling up Yellowpages and getting a site from them. These are all options, but just because George down the street uses them doesn't mean they should be suggested.
    - offtop5 5y ago
      >So does uploading a PDF as your whole site. To do this you need to register the domain, and then point your domain to an S3 bucket hosting the PDF. I have numerous friends who I consider to be extremely smart, but will never any day of the week be able to figure out how to do that. I think I agree with you, Wix is better at marketing than website design. But functionally as a business, they're making fantastic profits.
- basch 5y ago
  It's hard to even call them websites. Right click doesnt work right. New tab doesnt work. Links dont go to anchors. They are as bad as any of the "flash websites" from back in the day.
tyingq 5y ago
Wordpress.com has hosted wordpress also.

dubcanada 5y ago

I have NO problem with a basic page builder, let me get that out there and if I made it seem like I did, apologies. My problem is specifically with Wix and the garbage they produce. I've done hundreds of Squarespace, Webflow, etc etc sites and they are perfectly fine. I see no reason a band needs to pay someone or have an agency build a site for them. My problem is a company marketing themselves as the next best thing, when really it's probably one of the worst products I've ever used (even spinning up a WordPress instance, installing a random page builder plugin is better then the results you get from Wix).

offtop5 5y ago
To be completely frank, to the layman Wix gets the job done. In a perfect world they'd spend less money marketing and more on building good products, but they're aiming for non-technical people who will create a Wix page and then forget about it. I don't like Wix ether, but their business model is definitely working.
- dubcanada 5y ago
  So does uploading a PDF as your whole site. Or calling up Yellowpages and getting a site from them. These are all options, but just because George down the street uses them doesn't mean they should be suggested.
  - offtop5 5y ago
    >So does uploading a PDF as your whole site. To do this you need to register the domain, and then point your domain to an S3 bucket hosting the PDF. I have numerous friends who I consider to be extremely smart, but will never any day of the week be able to figure out how to do that. I think I agree with you, Wix is better at marketing than website design. But functionally as a business, they're making fantastic profits.
basch 5y ago
It's hard to even call them websites. Right click doesnt work right. New tab doesnt work. Links dont go to anchors. They are as bad as any of the "flash websites" from back in the day.

tyingq 5y ago

Wordpress.com has hosted wordpress also.