Merge Wufoo and Weebly

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49784

by binnymathews • 19 years ago

4 2 19 years ago

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I think it makes a lot of sense to merge / combine wufoo and weebly (both Y Combinator funded) into a single company -

1. Both address the same pain of creating online pages without having to write code.

2. Most people creating websites inevitably have to create some kind of form on their website.

3. The combined company's services is probably much more appealing to a buyer (maybe some online store manager) than two individual form and web page creation companies.

Any thoughts ?

Thanks

epi0Bauqu• 19 years ago

Mergers & acquisitions are really complicated, and often are unsuccessful by a variety of metrics even when they look good on paper. This is especially true of M&A between two very small companies. And I would imagine YC doesn't own much of either company, so beyond a mere suggestion, it would be up to those companies to individually choose that path among the universe of their possible options.

That being said, the idea of a merger here doesn't even make much sense to me. Wufoo seems more targeted at business and Weebly at personal. But I don't know too much about either having never used either for real, so I'll stop here.

SwellJoe• 19 years ago

The guys in the companies have met, though I don't think either are looking for a merger. I'm sure they've discussed "synergies".

They are, despite appearances to the contrary, being used in very different markets, as epi hints at. Wufoo is very heavily tilted towards business users, with a client list including a nice little chunk of the Fortune 500 (and Virtualmin, Inc. as we use it for our "get a T-shirt" form). Weebly is heavily favored by individuals. I don't know of any big businesses using Weebly, but they've got like a billion people using it for personal websites (I've setup one, and I might even move my personal blog over).

Wufoo did just add a very simple checkout module, which may be the thing that pushes them into the mainstream with individuals selling small goods. But I dunno if that's how it's shaking out. I suspect it is small businesses and organizations, like always, but now they're collecting payments for their field trips or bake sales or T-shirts or whatever it is they're organizing with the form.

Merge Wufoo and Weebly

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