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> "when I was just starting Moonfruit, the world’s first SAAS website builder" Moonfruit, launched in 2000, was definitely not the first SaaS website builder.
by thesausageking 5y ago
> "when I was just starting Moonfruit, the world’s first SAAS website builder"
Moonfruit, launched in 2000, was definitely not the first SaaS website builder. Geocities launched 6 years before it and there were dozens of them by the time Moonfruit came around.
While not a big lie, it's an odd way to start a post like this.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoNot odd at all, it's standard startup delusion trying to chase clout
- sp332 5y agoGeocities was free and didn't really provide any "software" in the service. It was a static web host.
- srhngpr 5y agoGeocities had a WYSIWYG website builder, so yes there was some software involved. It's how I learned how to build my first website when I was 12.
- galdosdi 5y agoFunnily enough, one of those dozens of examples hits close to home here: A main source of the original fortune that funded the creation of YC and thus Hacker News was the $49m sale to Yahoo! of Viaweb, a SaaS website builder (focused on ecommerce) founded by Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris in 1995.