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by dc_rog 664 days ago
I believe there will continue to be a market for people building websites. Storefronts, landing pages, personal pages, blogs. I don’t see these going away.

The feedback I keep seeing on hn and elsewhere is a mix of ease/ownership/flexibility but still abstraction of coding and hosting that most people might not want to do. It’s a super broad space and lots of people want different things in a solution.

Advice: go after a narrow niche since the space is crowded, competitive, and arguably commoditized.

Here’s an example I saw launch recently and thought “that’s an interesting niche” https://sprout.site/en/ (No affiliation)

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I agree that's it's a good idea to go niche. I did some research about website builders for photographers and concluded that the best one for many photographers is a niche product aimed at their needs - https://www.format.com/website
Niching down is definitely working really well. I had an experience developing a website for a fancy gallery in London, and they were already "sold" to use Artlogic (https://artlogic.net) because every other gallery uses it. The builder itself was quite horrible and confusing tbh.
> Here’s an example I saw launch recently and thought “that’s an interesting niche” https://sprout.site/en/ (No affiliation)

I was ready to look for problems but couldn't find much, impressive lean and fast landing page. If it is generated by the tool, great work.