I use them as well. You can avoid this issue entirely by creating a "click" domain. All you have to do is set a CNAME and then your links go to your own domain instead of go.sparkpostmail1.com
Thanks for your feedback, especially for the what/why approach, it's somehow natural to think about it but showing it more explicitly might be a great point for the potential customer
You build your webpage (like you'd do it in grapesjs), which might be even your personal page, then you can decide to export it or just assign a subdomain (custom domains are not available in free accounts) and view it online
My paid feature tiers really targeted commercial and heavy traffic users and I simply never had any of them sign up because the actual platform functionality targeted individual free users.
There are some hard to answer questions around the type of users that need dynamic pagebuilders, and you need your paid tier to target the specific pain points of people who would pay, not just arbitrary limits on free feature usage. I built the platform for free users so that's all I ever attracted.
If I did it again, I would focus on things businesses need like product widgets, contact forms, store maps, opening hours, social integration and so on.
My main target, at the moment, should be "small businesses", so from freelancers to startups. Not sure if I'm doing that right, but I'm willing to learn
Just to point few of them:
1. Quick deploy of the site (I mean you don't need to deal with servers, installations, and stuff)
2. They can start collecting leads easily
I was just about to ask this. “Why does the world need another web site publisher” is a general version of that question. I think you should answer both.
FYI build some alternate landing pages that are SEO’ed for “square space alternative”, etc.