What's the best website builder for early start-ups?

Starting up, you need to setup a website for your next idea. What's the best tool to use to build a site, efficiently, quick and without breaking the bank?
Leo BassamFounder, CEO at Plutio.com · Edited

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Steven CristensDigital marketer & web specialist · Written
It's not the most advanced tool, but it's free and easy to setup and learn. It also has a large community, so you'll find a lot of themes and plugins.
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Laef ⛅Programmer and founder, FindALostPet · Written
While WordPress is traditionally more for blogs, with a little bit of theming, it becomes an incredibly versatile and useful tool for pretty much any website, while remaining easy to use and maintain.
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Wordpress any day. With the availability of lot of Premium themes and plugins you can set up a stunning website in 10 minutes (not exaggerating ) :)
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Frederik WallerProduct enthusiast studying in the UK. · Written
Webflow templates are beautifully designed, there are a ton of integrations and it's very easy to handle.
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Ayush Mittal12bro @boombro, Founder RefR ✌ · Written
Agree! Anyone and everyone without any prior coding knowledge can create responsive websites without code. Much more powerful than other darg-and-drops. Waiting for their Interactions 2.0! (https://webflow.com/feature/inte...)
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Squarespace

Create beautiful websites and blogs easily

Kyle HessFintech Product Manager · Written
Squarespace is as good as it gets. Super fast, everything looks pretty, good for mobile, and nice enough analytics tools to get you up and running.
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Bubble

Build a fully functional web app without any code

If you want your website to validate your idea (like an MVP or the actual product), you can create very complex ideas with a 2 to 5-hour learning curve. Now, if you want the simplest option to just showcase something, I'd go with Squarespace. And if you want the most flexibility in terms of design, Webflow is what you want.
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Ayush Mittal12bro @boombro, Founder RefR ✌ · Written
Exactly - build more than a website without code. Been using Bubble and made a few completely functional apps on Bubble without code. That said, there is a bit of learning curve to understand the fundamentals of visual programming if you want to go beyond just a website. The Bubble schema is built from things — basically tables. Programming is expressed through events in a workflow. A workflow in Bubble refers to an action (event) that can be called by an element within the app. Events have conditions expressed by boolean expressions.
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From the ability to copy any page to start your website to their ability to go straight from photoshop to the web PageCloud is the best!
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Carrd

Simple, responsive, one-page sites for pretty much anything.

I've been a big fan of Carrd since seeing it on Ask PH. Their platform is dead simple to use, the templates are beautiful, and you can attach your own domain. It's something you should consider depending on the complexity of the site you're trying to build.
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Steven CristensDigital marketer & web specialist · Written
If you're less focused on content management, and more on templating and building a basic 'drag and drop' site, then Wix could be a good option.
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I have made many beautiful sites with wix.com, but it can be slow if you load it up with too many apps/uploads. I tried like every single one out there, and it was the easiest and affordable website builder. But beware the average customer will not wait more than a few seconds if the page is taking too long to load. I moved onto Shopify. It's more expensive than wix, but if your planning on having a lot of merchandise/photo's Etc It's better off you buy a template from a designer and use Shopify. It has a lot of great features like setting up your Facebook store. I found it simple and more reliable, it all depends on … See more
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Osez LamerTech enthusiast! · Written
I would recommend Duda as the easiest website builder. I've used Wordpress and then Squarespace. Wordpress allows you to add plugins but makes your website slow. Squarespace is like iOS, beautiful and simple but you can't touch any code line (almost). Makes me a bit unsatisfied.. Finally, I tried Duda which is very simple to handle, and most of all.. is FAST! They have pretty good ideas, and building a website with their system is way easier than other products. I've monitored speed tests and my website is 50% faster compare to Squarespace :) Google recommends it as well.
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Weebly Carbon

The website building platform for entrepreneurs

Sam DickieProduct Manager- Founder of @nocode.tech · Written
I have been using Weebly for the last 6 years and can't fault it. Great themes, fully customisable CSS/HTML, app store and reasonable pricing structure.
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Tilda Publishing

Build beautiful websites and tell stories without any code

Ricardo PoloCo-founder of Tulpep · Written
This is awesome. In all other options you have to design, no code but design. In Tilda they made design for you. Even if you are not very artisit it will look great.
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Adobe Spark Page

Really depends on what you want to do exactly. I tried Spark Page yesterday. Not a lot if customization options, buy nice little tool to create shareable web stories in minutes.
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Semplice Studio

The portfolio platform for designers & small studios.

Andrew S AllenCo-Founder / Design · Written
Powerful, beautiful website builder for those who want more than the standard
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TemplateToaster

TemplateToaster is a powerful website builder, used for designing websites , themes and templates for five major content management systems. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, and Prestashop. Add to this, it is also used for creating Blogger templates.
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IM Creator

Friendlier website builder

It's a DIY website builder built for professionals but easy enough for anyone to use. So the sites are both functional, look great and can be easily promoted.
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Blocs CMS

Design any project or design flow in Blocs

Henrique MacedoUI Designer, CoolFarm · Written
Fast, easy to use and powerful visual web design tool that lets you create beautiful and modern websites without the need to write code.
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Sharetribe

The easiest way to start a marketplace business

Scott Smith12 years experience in IT · Written
This one was great for me, I created a sharing economy website for IT freelancers. My new site is tekkshare.com .
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