WebStarts Reviews

I have just started diving into it, but Webstarts is definitely a good value. Generous limits and a straight forward Drag n Drop editor with built in ecommerce capability and free business email. Add is free custom domains and hosting and you can't go wrong with this for the vast majority of use cases. If you need a very complex website, this isn't the right fit, but excellent for most everything else.

A minor con would be the templates. They're very basic, and there could be more of them, but you can make what you want from them or start from scratch.

This is one of the greatest products you can buy on AppSumo. Thank you WebStarts. Simply pick the code that works for you & begin creating your website. The person who made this product is kind & giving for offering it to us here.

I respect you, thank you, and value what you have done. If you purchased this product spend time exploring it and truly learning how it works. You will be surprised by how excellent this product is. Then make sure to write your "one thousand-stars review" and tell other people about it.

Share it willingly without the need for affiliate bonuses because WebStarts has already been extremely generous with everything included in these website builder packages. Thank you again WebStarts.

I bought Webstarts ages ago on AppSumo and forgot to leave a review. After reading gkc's review it prompted me to leave one being a longer time user.

WebStarts really is a gamechanger in website hosting. I bought this deal for one site and then ended up buying it for multiple businesses and for a friend as a gift. It is so easy to use and is literally set up and forget.

I have contacted support and they were very responsive. It was super easy to build the site, link the domain and be online. I built two sites in a day. But I did do the tutorials first which were very quick and straight to the point.

It is ridiculously cheap for lifetime hosting of websites and has allowed me to build some other sites around businesses that I had previously just redirected domains on. I love how you have the separate editing for website and mobile. This has been one of my biggest pain points on other apps not being able to make changes to these separately and has allowed me to tweak things for mobile which is important.

This is a great deal and the product is amazing. I have never seen my sites offline and image loading is always fast. It is one of those deals that can really save you a lot of money over time for something that is essential in any business. Thanks for bringing this back to AppSumo.

Great product. And that's because it has a healthy balance between design and functions for agencies. The great thing about it is the simplicity of setting up a blog, a store or booking appointments. Adam, congratulations on improving the product. Today, clients need simple and clean solutions. Quick orientation on the website.
The only thing I probably miss the most is the possibility of partial localization into different languages. I actually have only one problem. I need native translation of some buttons and names of months and days in the blog into languages ​​other than English. I know your top priorities are different. But imagine if your product became global. It's not about backend translation. It's about the ability to translate the blog app: "read more", names of months and days. Or allow the date to be displayed without the name of days and months.
In the store app, the ability to translate the cart, and the entire purchase path that the client sees. And in the case of the app for appointments, the ability to translate the calendar and days. All this so that the client can see the frontend in their language. If there was an option in the backend to change the names of dynamic fields (read more, names of months, days, names of buttons in forms when purchasing a product, etc.), your product would become global. Everyone could translate those few fields into their language. You wouldn't have to localize the backend, but only what changes for each specific language. For example, create a "localization" tab in the basic settings and then have the option to add a translation option to individual fields. When I make sites for Czech or Slovak clients, I have to use other solutions. The product itself is great. Please take the above suggestions as my opinion only.

Summary: This is a product and deal that COULD be really good. But there are some key missing features that the developer does not seem to care about adding, there are MANY unanswered questions that are crucial to know the answers to, and the the developer needs to show that they will support the product after the refund window before anyone should consider putting an important website on it.

Pros:

1. The editor is mostly pretty good. Designing by dragging-and-dropping is, for me, better as an overall experience than adding blocks to Wordpress. It means you can come up with designs more easily and get them published.

2. Sites are fast. My sites on Webstarts are MUCH faster at loading than the equivalent builds on Wordpress shared hosting.

3. Uptime is good/okay, depending on your needs. My monitor has it at 99.97% over the last week. That 0.03% doesn't sound like a lot, but it could be to some people. Is probably fine for the sites I am putting on it.

4. Been around for 20 years, which hopefully means they will stick around.

5. Yes, if it works out, the deal terms are good.

Cons:

1. Support. By far the biggest problem, and the developer has shown that they don't care about this just in these AppSumo comments. There are TONNES of unanswered comments, questions, etc. The ones that are answered are extremely short in response. I have multiple e-mails to support from almost 2 weeks ago that are unanswered. What if your website goes down in the future or there is a serious problem? Will support never answer? They say they have a telephone number you can call, but, will they answer?

2. No idea what the security situation is. There is NOTHING on their websites about firewalls, DDOS prevention, etc.

3. Similarly, no idea what the CDN situation is. Developer comments say AWS. Website says nothing. So they could change this to some other one in the future to a not-as-good-one.

4. No way to manage your storage. You can't even see how much space you have used across your entire account, let alone one website. So how are you meant to manage multiple websites?

5. WebP images do not work. Despite what the developer says. You upload a WebP file, it converts it to PNG and delivers as a huge PNG file.

6. Cookie Consent box does not work. You turn it on and nothing happens. Also no customisation options for it at all.

7. No way to make a simple password-protected page.

8. Sites are not truly responsive. Looks like there are 2 sets of code: one for desktop and one for mobile.

9. Following this, this makes it super-inefficient to load. So while I get fast loading speeds, I get big warnings in Google Page Speed Insights, causing a massive 11 SECONDS of render blocking. Also slow server response (720ms).

10. There are some bugs. Like after saving, your website moves around, or items rotating themselves, or backgrounds for headers not showing in the editor, or animations are out of time (e.g., set 2 objects spaced 4 seconds apart. The one that should show 2nd shows 1st).

11. There are some HUGE pain points with the editor that make it HORRIBLE to use for full customisation. E.g., nothing telling you an item has an animation or link attached. So you have to keep setting it again just to be sure. Simple fix: Just make the icon blue, or something, if there is an active animation.

12. There are some key missing things from the editor. - (A) Image box : no option to change position of image inside (you can on image strip), (B) You can only select up/down/left/right for image position on strips, not specific. (C) There is no option for a different image position on mobile, or different image entirely on mobile, so images look wrong. (D) You can't hide items on desktop, to create something different on mobile. (E) There are ZERO options for your mobile site's menu, like background colour, position, etc. (F) Can't change settings for static header - e.g., different colour on scroll. (G) No option to ignore default hyperlink formatting, so it overwrites your design when you enter one. (H) Can't give a URL to ALL elements, e.g., columns. (I) Can't fade in splitters from left or right; only top or bottom. (I) And more.

13. Incentivised reviews on here.

14. DNS does not support AAA, CAA, DMARC, SRV.

The developer needs to take these things seriously. Simply having good terms of an offer that are a good price does NOT make a deal good. If the price is good, but support sucks, that's not a good deal. What if your site goes down and you never hear back from support? The key missing features are also crucial to anyone who actually cares about their websites, and the developer comments suggest they don't care to add them.

Time will tell with this one. Would probably be 4 stars if support was good. I would not host anything dynamic and super-important on it, but for relatively static sites where it's not completely traumatic if it goes down for a bit while you wait to hear from support, then it's probably a good deal.