Webiny Serverless CMS
Open-Source Serverless CMS Powered by GraphQL and React
It took us more time than planned to achieve this milestone, but I'm happy to report we are LIVE on PH as of today:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/serverless-headless-cms-by-webiny
So why you need another Headless CMS? For a change, with this one you won't worry about scaling, installing, configuring and managing infrastructure. On top of it, Webiny cuts your cloud hosting bill by anywhere between 60% and 80%! You will stop paying for resources you do not use. Now, who doesn't want all that?!
I hope you gonna give Webiny a spin - would love to hear your thoughts on how we can make it even better for the whole community.
If you love what we have built here, I would appreciate if you would support our launch on Product Hunt.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/serverless-headless-cms-by-webiny
Cheers,
Sven
Build and host your forms the serverless way. Open-source, GraphQL API, available today!
A crucial part of most websites are forms. Be that simple contact forms, or more complex lead generation forms. Businesses rely on these forms to generate revenue, grow their user base and even handle payments. Forms are everywhere.
Introducing Webiny Serverless Form Builder
With Webiny we want to empower developers to create serverless applications by providing a foundation, processes and ready-made apps. The Form Builder is one of those apps.
Like all other Webiny CMS apps, the Form Builder is designed to be deployed into a serverless environment. At the moment Webiny supports AWS, but the support for other cloud vendors is coming in 2020.
We launched Webiny Form Builder on Product Hunt today — The whole team is there at the moment and happy to answer any questions. We would appreciate it if you would support our launch.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/webiny-serverless-cms-form-builder
I'm happy to share with the community the news we have closed our first seed round.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/29/webiny-announces-347k-seed-to-build-open-source-serverless-cms/
I want to share our story about the last 6 months and how we managed to get to an investment for an open-source project. Webiny is a CMS for serverless web development, it's completely free and open-source.
We first launched in May this year on ProductHunt. (launch campaign link: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/webiny-serverless-cms)
It took us a few days to prep for the campaign. We mainly followed guides and tips from the internet. With the help of a great hunter who hunted our project, we managed to get a decent number of upvotes early in the day. Then over time, we climbed as more and more users came online. We were #1 for maybe 90% of the day. Due to the algorithm that PH uses, and how it tracks the trends, we actually finished in the second place. Although we had more upvotes :) This was just the beginning.
The traffic generated from PH was significant (at least for us). On the first day we gained close to 400 beta users on our site, and close to 300 stars on our GitHub.
Later in the same week, someone shared Webiny on HackerNews. I believe it was a Sunday, so the traffic was lower than usual. We still managed to stay on the trending page for almost the full day, which also sent a great number of users to the site.
In about a month after the launch, we had close to ~1000 beta users and ~900 stars on GitHub. Note that we didn't do any marketing of paid activities, we shared links to Webiny on probably 5 or 6 portals and that's it.
After our initial launch campaign, we started blogging on HackerNoon. One of the articles received more than 20k views, which helped us grow even further.
Starting April/May we started to approach investors. We got into the final rounds at YCombinator, SeedCamp, 360 Accelerator, TechStars and a few others. In parallel to that, we discussed an investment opportunity with 4 different investors. Mostly London based, as that's where we are located. Towards the end of June, conversations got quite far with one of them. We finally closed the full round in September and announced it last week.
Read more about our investor and the funding on our blog: https://blog.webiny.com/weve-closed-our-seed-round-84a572c56e2
If you ask me what are the main reasons for our growth and eventually closing the investment - I would say it's a combination of the team, market timing and execution.
This is also an interesting read from our investors on why they invested in us: https://medium.com/@episode1/why-we-invested-in-webiny-609ca22246a4
Our product fully aligned with a new and expanding market. The investors saw that and our potential to execute in such an environment.
Now our goal is to deliver on our mission. We want Webiny to become the foundation behind every serverless application.
If you are a developer, give Webiny a spin and let us know what you think. We are also welcoming any contributors (https://github.com/webiny/webiny-js) and have some free SWAG to give away (www.webiny.com/swag) .
Happy hacking!
Webiny has officially launched on Product Hunt. We ended up being the 2nd most upvoted product of the day.
Product Hunt sent us ~8k visitors across 3 days and the feedback was amazing. From those visitors around 600 of them registered, tried the product and sent us feedback. Overall we were super happy with the result.
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