Comments on: Weebly Goes With YCombinator http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/ Startup and Technology News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:16 -0800 hourly 1 By: Hack RM http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-2654403 Hack RM Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:28:58 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-2654403 Tested. I think it is the future of the sites. Thank you so much the team it gathered. All tech throbs. Tested. I think it is the future of the sites. Thank you so much the team it gathered. All tech throbs.

]]> By: CMSWire http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-1371060 CMSWire Thu, 10 May 2007 15:26:09 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-1371060 <strong>New Hosted Blog Contender is a Wee Bit Weebly...</strong> SF-based Weebly, a fruit from the YCombinator tree, just joined the hosted blogging world, pitting itself against TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type....... New Hosted Blog Contender is a Wee Bit Weebly…

SF-based Weebly, a fruit from the YCombinator tree, just joined the hosted blogging world, pitting itself against TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type…….

]]> By: Weebly Launches Blog Platform, Closes $650K Investment http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-1369945 Weebly Launches Blog Platform, Closes $650K Investment Wed, 09 May 2007 14:00:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-1369945 [...] Weebly is a Y Combinator company. [...] [...] Weebly is a Y Combinator company. [...]

]]> By: GigaOM » Weebly challenges TypePad, WordPress http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-1369810 GigaOM » Weebly challenges TypePad, WordPress Wed, 09 May 2007 11:01:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-1369810 [...] got its start as an easy to use web publishing tool, targeting individuals and small business owners. Its [...] [...] got its start as an easy to use web publishing tool, targeting individuals and small business owners. Its [...]

]]> By: David Rusenko http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-734365 David Rusenko Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:17:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-734365 Hey Colin, thanks for letting us know about the quotes issue, which is now fixed. Let me know if anything else comes up. Hey Colin, thanks for letting us know about the quotes issue, which is now fixed. Let me know if anything else comes up.

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-732013 David Mackey Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:43:34 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-732013 Looks nifty, though I personally use Visual Studio 2005 and think I will stick with it. Looks nifty, though I personally use Visual Studio 2005 and think I will stick with it.

]]> By: Colin http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-727127 Colin Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:51:15 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-727127 While I like the idea of 'instant websites for non-geeks', and think that eventually someone will nail this, Weebly does seem pretty buggy. For example, take a look at this page: http://colin.weebly.com/index.html and you can see that quotes aren't being escaped properly. This is not a browser error, or due to JS support. Just good old fashion sloppy programming (which I my self am guilty of as well of course). Looking forward to seeing the bugs get ironed out. While I like the idea of ‘instant websites for non-geeks’, and think that eventually someone will nail this, Weebly does seem pretty buggy. For example, take a look at this page: http://colin.we....com/index.html and you can see that quotes aren’t being escaped properly. This is not a browser error, or due to JS support. Just good old fashion sloppy programming (which I my self am guilty of as well of course).

Looking forward to seeing the bugs get ironed out.

]]> By: Brian http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-724340 Brian Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:03:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-724340 horst, its more likely the browser your user is buggy, its a little hard to be so harsh to the developers of this site for bugs, when in fact JavaScript is more less broken due to all the bugs in the browsers, and browser incompatibilities. horst,

its more likely the browser your user is buggy, its a little hard to be so harsh to the developers of this site for bugs, when in fact JavaScript is more less broken due to all the bugs in the browsers, and browser incompatibilities.

]]> By: carmen http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-714433 carmen Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:17:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-714433 didnt infogami already do this? didnt infogami already do this?

]]> By: Jianing http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-712558 Jianing Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:16:45 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-712558 Congratulations to David and the team. Good effort. @ Horst: "complexity of AJAX cannot be managed by typical young software developers." "typical" means under par, in the software development world, so your statement is true but is not particular to young developers. I've seen good/bad developers of all ages I'd say age is not a factor here. Congratulations to David and the team. Good effort.

@ Horst:
“complexity of AJAX cannot be managed by typical young software developers.” “typical” means under par, in the software development world, so your statement is true but is not particular to young developers. I’ve seen good/bad developers of all ages I’d say age is not a factor here.

]]> By: Tyler http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-712378 Tyler Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:33:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-712378 Any news on <a href="http://www.synthasite.com/" rel="nofollow">Synthasite</a>? Any news on Synthasite?

]]> By: Brandon http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-712362 Brandon Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:29:44 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-712362 They should eventually sell themes to the users. Compete with sites like Template Monster but have the backend entirely there and extremely easy for users to edit. They should eventually sell themes to the users. Compete with sites like Template Monster but have the backend entirely there and extremely easy for users to edit.

]]> By: David Rusenko http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-711155 David Rusenko Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:18:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-711155 Hey Horst, saw your feedback email earlier. We're not aware of any issues with the software right now. If you can get back to us, we'll look into anything that might have popped up -- or shoot me an email with your number, and I can have someone from the team give you a call. Hey Horst, saw your feedback email earlier. We’re not aware of any issues with the software right now. If you can get back to us, we’ll look into anything that might have popped up — or shoot me an email with your number, and I can have someone from the team give you a call.

]]> By: Horst Henn http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-711026 Horst Henn Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:38:39 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-711026 A web site creator for mom and dad - not a bad idea. Many people tried to do this before (including Google) with rather poor results. However, the implementation and the current choice of elements a Weebly customer can place is so poor that really nobody can use it - within a couple of minutes useage i got 5 errors! It will probably take years to get this system so bullet proof that mom and dad can use it. The current version of Weebly is another proof that the complexity of AJAX cannot be managed by typical young software developers. I wonder how serious investors can throw money at a student level project. A web site creator for mom and dad – not a bad idea. Many people tried to do this before (including Google) with rather poor results. However, the implementation and the current choice of elements a Weebly customer can place is so poor that really nobody can use it – within a couple of minutes useage i got 5 errors! It will probably take years to get this system so bullet proof that mom and dad can use it. The current version of Weebly is another proof that the complexity of AJAX cannot be managed by typical young software developers. I wonder how serious investors can throw money at a student level project.

]]> By: Ivan Pope http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-710949 Ivan Pope Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:09:13 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-710949 It's interesting to compare and contrast this with Terapad - http://terapad.com It’s interesting to compare and contrast this with Terapad – http://terapad.com

]]> By: Andy http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-710936 Andy Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:02:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-710936 When will "websites" be purchasable at places like Hallmark or the checkout stand at the grocery store? Impulse buys and greeting cards are pretty much the complexity and effort that "son/sister/grandma" ultimately want to put, and usually end up putting, into a site, at least in my experience. When will “websites” be purchasable at places like Hallmark or the checkout stand at the grocery store? Impulse buys and greeting cards are pretty much the complexity and effort that “son/sister/grandma” ultimately want to put, and usually end up putting, into a site, at least in my experience.

]]> By: Frank http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/comment-page-1/#comment-710754 Frank Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:35:06 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/weebly-goes-with-ycombinator/#comment-710754 I know that a lot of skilled technical people will probably be down on AJAX site creation but for the average Grandmother or Soccer Mom this is a godsend. I know from working in IT that I get probably one question a week about how to get a website up easily for "my son/my sister/my Grandma". More power to this type of setup. Sure it's a niche, but a valuable niche. I know that a lot of skilled technical people will probably be down on AJAX site creation but for the average Grandmother or Soccer Mom this is a godsend. I know from working in IT that I get probably one question a week about how to get a website up easily for “my son/my sister/my Grandma”.

More power to this type of setup. Sure it’s a niche, but a valuable niche.

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