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by dlevine 5752 days ago
I worked on the Page Creator Team at Google (WYSIWYG website editor that launched 4 or 5 years ago, and was eventually subsumed into Sites). It's cool to see how much better the technology is than it was back then (we literally had to build a different editor for every browser, since contenteditable only existed in IE, and there was no such thing as Mootools or JQuery)

Your site is pretty cool. The table of contents feature is nice (we had a lot of requests for that). I wouldn't worry about large sites, because you are going to have to optimize for some use case.

One thing we found was that a lot of people didn't actually know what to put on their site. Templates are probably a good way to do this. Another possibility would be to have different entry pages for different use cases (bring people in when they search for "I want a way to do X").

If you want an example of a company that has been successful in this market, take a look at SquareSpace (they were profitable on their own, and just took a monster VC round).

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It's a shame it isn't developed anymore