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Building Webflow, and the No-Code Movement (with Vlad Magdalin, Co-Founder and CEO)

2019/12/12
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Vlad Magdalin 回顾了 Webflow 十多年的发展历程，从最初的大学项目到多次创业失败，最终在 2012 年成功启动。他详细阐述了 Webflow 的核心理念，即通过直接操作的方式，让设计师能够像使用图形设计软件一样直观地构建网站和 Web 应用，而无需编写大量的代码。他认为 Webflow 的成功得益于浏览器技术的进步和对 Web 原生元素的充分利用，以及对用户需求的深刻理解。他将 Webflow 定位为"代码可选"的平台，并展望了未来 Webflow 向更纯粹的无代码平台发展的方向。他强调了无代码运动的意义，即降低软件开发的门槛，让更多人能够参与到软件创建中，从而推动创新。他还分享了 Webflow 的发展策略，从最初的落地页构建器到如今功能强大的网站和 Web 应用构建平台，以及其在市场细分中的定位。最后，他给创业者的建议是：不要追求完美，尽早发布产品，快速迭代。 Ben 和 David 作为主持人，引导 Vlad Magdalin 分享了 Webflow 的发展历程、技术架构、市场定位以及对无代码运动的看法。他们还探讨了 Webflow 与其他类似产品的区别，以及 Webflow 未来发展方向。

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Vlad Magdalin, co-founder and CEO of Webflow, discusses his journey starting the company, including multiple attempts and the eventual success after joining Y Combinator.

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We're joined by Webflow's Co-Founder and CEO, Vlad Magdalin, talking about how he started the company (over a decade, trying three times), how to nail the timing of your startup, and the future of the "no-code movement."

Vlad took his company through YCombinator in 2013, and raised only $3m in the following six years, before closing a $72m Series A from Accel earlier this year. He gives his perspective on why now is the only time Webflow could have worked (not in 2009, the last time he tried to start it), what's changed in browser technology, and how he was inspired by one of the original designers of the iPhone software. Vlad also shares his wisdom for other founders and opportunities he thinks will be available for entrepreneurs in the next five years when robust "no-code" infrastructure is built out.

“The differentiator between No-Code and Low-Code is that Low-Code makes this implicit admission that in order to really finish a project, I’m going to need a developer. Or I am going to need to know how to take it across that last mile. In No-Code, the aspiration is that for the vast majority of cases, you will not that. Or, if you do, that one or a few developers that can create the No-Code version that abstracts away the Low-Code version and put it into the hands of millions.” -Vlad Magdalin, @callmevlad

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