[smt88]

I've been a web developer since 1996. I built dozens of websites professionally before moving on to building apps in many industries, including finance and insurance.

I can, without hesitation, wholeheartedly endorse SquareSpace because it requires zero of my skills. It makes so many painful things painless. I have no idea why people put static websites on their own infrastructure, especially when anything moderately popular needs paid DDoS protection anyway.

In fact, with all the modules, my website would have to get pretty fancy (beyond ecommerce, beyond CMS) before I'd build a custom solution.

I've actually turned away at least 10 clients (who would have paid me $10k+ each) and told them to just build it themselves with SquareSpace and hire a designer instead. I feel like it's unethical to take those contracts as a developer anymore.

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square space really looks great. Their pricing too seems very affordable.