{"id":16095,"date":"2012-02-14T10:45:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T08:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T13:21:48","slug":"the-history-of-page-ly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/14\/the-history-of-page-ly\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of Page.ly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent “behind the curtains” series of blog posts, telling the fascinating story of the Page.ly project<\/a>. \u00a0Page.ly<\/a> is a user-friendly WordPress hosting, providing hassle-free setup and configuration of WordPress websites. \u00a0I haven’t used the service myself – being a fan of WordPress I do enjoy diving into the code and learning the details – but I’ve heard a few good words about it.<\/p>\n

For me personally, the interest in this story is not only in technology, but also in the ways of thinking. \u00a0 Running a profit-oriented company (and a small start-up at that) on and around Open Source Software is guaranteed to provide a number of challenges – from competition and marketing to community managing. \u00a0 And even though there are many companies that do business around Open Source Software, an insight into ways of thinking, the system of values, and into specific challenges is rare. \u00a0Building Page.ly series has plenty.<\/p>\n

In 2010 we saw the arrival of a handful of what most would refer to as competitors, it was inevitable. We did the hard part proving the space had legs and there was revenue to be made. And no good idea goes un-copied for long. We were also starting to make a name for ourselves in the WordPress community and that helped quite a bit to get the word out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A couple\u00a0interesting\u00a0points regarding these new arrivals. At SXSW in 2010 I went to the WordPress BBQ at a co-working space in Austin where I handed out a few shirts and were talking to folks about what Page.ly was. One fellow I distinctly remember talking to must have really been listening, a few months later he was a co-founder of a competing company. Around the time this company was launching their other co-founder solicited us about using our technology to power their new offering rather than \u2018re-inventing\u2019 the wheel. I was\u00a0amicable\u00a0to the idea (fits\u00a0squarely\u00a0with our collaboration over competition\u00a0philosophy) and agreed to a phone conversation<\/strong> which never took place. They decided to roll their own and off they went.<\/p>\n

One of the other new players was not happy merely re-factoring our idea, but went so far as to be heavily \u2018inspired\u2019 by our marketing to the point I had to have a private conversation with them about the overt similarities between our website copy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the end of the day, we did not then and we still do not see any of these chaps as\u00a0competitors at all. We work from a mindset that with 30+ million WordPress powered sites out there the space is deep enough to support 5-10 page.ly\u2019s and we rather pull clients over from the econo-hosts like bluehost, mt, and godaddy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inspirational and insightful, to say the least. \u00a0Read part 1<\/a>, part 2<\/a>, part 3<\/a>, part 4<\/a>, and part 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I came across an excellent “behind the curtains” series of blog posts, telling the fascinating story of the Page.ly project. \u00a0Page.ly is a user-friendly WordPress hosting, providing hassle-free setup and configuration of WordPress websites. \u00a0I haven’t used the service myself – being a fan of WordPress I do enjoy diving into the code and learning … Continue reading The history of Page.ly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334,60],"tags":[1968,1336,2912],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","category-wordpress","tag-business","tag-inspiration","tag-open-source"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13439,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/05\/free-software-conference-2010-in-limassol-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":16095,"position":0},"title":"Free Software Conference 2010 in Limassol, Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is an announcement from my friends at UbuntuCy.org forum, who are organizing yet another event to promote Free and Open Source Software. 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