Website Builder

9 Tips For Starting A Successful Website Builder (2024)

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

Want to start your own website builder? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a website builder:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a website builder?
-> Pros and cons of a website builder

Need inspiration?

-> Other website builder success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a website builder
-> Website builder slogans

Other resources

-> Profitability of a website builder

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for createing a website builder:

#1: Lars Helgeson, founder of GreenRope:

We chatted with with Lars, founder of GreenRope ($160K/month). In our interview, Lars says:

We decided to outsource our PPC and social media management, which has been a great saving in cost and stress for our marketing team.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Hilart Abrahamian, founder of WebJoint:

We chatted with with Hilart, founder of WebJoint ($/month). In our interview, Hilart says:

As long as you can pay your rent, and keep food on the table, now the majority of your day can actually be spent focusing on bringing your business to life.

Read the full interview ➜

#3: Shai Schechter, founder of RightMessage:

We chatted with with Shai, founder of RightMessage ($30K/month). In our interview, Shai says:

There's a lot to be said for building in public, keeping assumptions to a minimum, and iterating based on what you learn from your audience and their needs… It taught us so much about what the product needed to be, and more importantly what the product didn't need to be yet.

Additionally:

What if there were a point-and-click tool for marketers to set all this up themselves on their sites, without writing any code?

Further:

Money validates that you’ve touched on a pain point… But it doesn’t validate that your product solves that pain point, yet. Work as closely as you can with those customers, one-on-one, to make sure you’re actually solving their problem and delighting them.

Read the full interview ➜

#4: Stephen Freeman, founder of Kairos Digital:

We chatted with with Stephen, founder of Kairos Digital ($65K/month). In our interview, Stephen says:

Be faithful to the small things and help the people around you grow.

Read the full interview ➜

#5: David Braun, founder of Weblium:

We chatted with with David, founder of Weblium ($37K/month). In our interview, David says:

The sooner you will release the earlier you will get first feedback and transform your offering. We spent the first 6 months for nothing, we had to fully rewrite our UX after we've got first customers.

Additionally: