New code-free website builders receive funding

New code-free website builders receive funding

Tech in Asia announced that Y Combinator, along with other investors including WordPress executive Aadil Mamujee and Twitter founding engineer Blaine Cook, provided "undisclosed" funding for this no-code website builder

The company announced that it had provided "undisclosed" funding for the no-code website builder.

The company was founded this year based on a website builder platform that allows users to "create websites without requiring coding skills. Y Combinator has previously funded and invested in some of the best website builders on the market, including Weebly, Webflow, and Strikingly.

Typedream CEO Kevin Nicholas Chandra told the news outlet, "We are somewhere between an easy-to-use platform like Squarespace and a beautiful but hard-to-use platform like Webflow." He also said the new funding will be used to "double down on product enhancements."

He founded the company with four friends: Michel Marcellin, Albert Putra Purnama, Anthony Harris Christian, and Putri Karnia, who previously developed Cotter, an authentication service that "lets you log into any platform without having to type your password." The four had previously developed Cotter, an authentication service that "lets you log in to any platform without typing a password," and had raised funds through Y Combinator's incubator program in 2020.

While the service generated "some revenue there," Chandra added, "it didn't achieve the growth rate they had hoped for." On the other hand, enterprise customers take 3 to 12 months to convert"

and "the service was not as profitable as they would have liked.

As a result, the four companies expanded into a different market: influencers, schools, small business owners, and others who cannot code but need to be able to create digital products. while many "learned how to use" builders such as WordPress and Wix Chandra said that while many people have "learned how to use" builders like WordPress and Wix,

many "continue to hire freelancers to build websites" on such platforms.

He founded Typedream because he "found it much easier to convince no-code users because they don't build the services they need themselves." The company charges a subscription fee of $15 per month, and Chandra said that although he launched a minimum viable product (MVP) with only three features, people were "already willing to pay for it."

He concluded: "We learned that people are willing to pay for a product that solves a problem with minimal technology. We now only support static websites, like landing pages and personal websites.

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