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If Viaweb was a YC-funded Startup Today, What Would it Look Like?
3 points by staunch on March 22, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



More Javascript. CSS for a lot of things we did with images. Pages could look a lot better. Otherwise it would probably be pretty similar.

I think Weebly may be planning to add shopping stuff, in which case they'll become it.


Very interesting. Thanks.

What about charging a subscription? Viaweb was low-cost for the day, but would you even offer subscriptions at all if you were doing again today?


We might make it free for the lowest tier of users. The one problem with that, though, is that the users of this application are merchants. If you make it free without some other form of authentication, you make it easy for crooks to set up fake stores in order to defraud people.


I am not sure what it would look like, but I am guessing it would be Google that buys it out this time :D


Not as good as Yahoo just before a massive jump in stock price :-)




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