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If you want amazing design and flexibility but not as much flexibility as EE… there is only one: SquareSpace

You can build a really amazing website in less than an hour and the support is really TOP, 24/7, tickets are mostly answered within 30 min, a really well made SaaS solution. I use it for customers who don’t need all the power of EE and want a really nice website… and very good price actually.

The same for Popslice, it is by far not as powerful as SquareSpace but they share a similar design concept.

HeroFramework is also very slick framework based on CodeIgniter.

I like Saas Solutions, I wished EE would be offered as Saas as well.

If you want amazing design and flexibility but not as much flexibility as EE… there is only one: SquareSpace

You can build a really amazing website in less than an hour and the support is really TOP, 24/7, tickets are mostly answered within 30 min, a really well made SaaS solution. I use it for customers who don’t need all the power of EE and want a really nice website… and very good price actually.

The same for Popslice, it is by far not as powerful as SquareSpace but they share a similar design concept.

HeroFramework is also very slick framework based on CodeIgniter.

I like Saas Solutions, I wished EE would be offered as Saas as well.

With SaaS, you can’t hack the code to add custom functionality to the CMS right?

well you have Wordpress.com which is a SaaS solution and perfectly valid for hundreds of thousand of users and you have Wordpress.org which is the download version and valid for thousands of users as well but both share the same underlying code.

The guys in Magento, built Magento Go, which is SaaS solution that allows other programmers to build and develop custom add-ons which this programmers can sell on Magento App store and users can install them to add custom functionality to the stores at a click of a button and the don’t have to maintain any software or whatever it takes to maintain a Non-SaaS installation.

So, some SaaS solutiones are complete isoleted from external programmers and other ones are open to that. Of course the infrastructure you need for such projects is huge but the end result is that you make it easy for thousands of users to access and rent your software as a turn-key solution.

Basecamp has huge success and in some ways was one of those which started all these SaaS thing and showed to the world that it can be very profitable business, making an API available they managed to attract programmers to it an a huge ecosystem is built around the Basecamp platform.