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The Website Builder That Walked Away From Half Its Customers
Founders Itai Sadan and Amir Glatt stopped chasing do-it-yourself small businesses and bet the company on the professionals who build websites for a living. Fourteen million sites later, the decision reads as deliberate.
Ghost
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform that lets writers, journalists and creators run a website, send email newsletters and sell paid memberships from one place. Built on Node.js and released under the MIT license, it is stewarded by the nonprofit Ghost Foundation and funded entirely by its users through Ghost(Pro) managed hosting - taking 0% of creators' subscription revenue.
CivicActions
CivicActions is a fully remote digital services firm that helps U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies modernize the technology behind public services. Founded in 2004 by Henry Poole and Aaron Pava, the company pairs free and open-source software - especially Drupal - with agile delivery, DevSecOps, human-centered design, and accessibility expertise to rebuild legacy government websites and platforms. Guided by the values of Balance, Openness, and Care, CivicActions has served agencies including Veterans Affairs, the FCC, the National Science Foundation, and the State of Georgia while contributing heavily back to the open-source communities its work depends on.
Ceresti Health
Ceresti Health is a Carlsbad, California digital-health company that turns family caregivers into the front line of dementia care. Through a cell-enabled tablet, weekly one-on-one coaching from a personal care navigator, and claims-driven predictive analytics, Ceresti helps spouses and adult children spot the small changes - a urinary tract infection, a missed medication - that otherwise snowball into costly hospitalizations. The company sells to Medicare Advantage plans, ACOs, and providers operating under the CMS GUIDE payment model, and backs its program with a documented cost-savings guarantee: more than 50% fewer avoidable hospitalizations and roughly $6,800 in medical savings per enrolled patient per year.
Pantheon
Pantheon is a San Francisco WebOps platform that runs Drupal, WordPress, and Next.js sites for over 12,000 organizations - from MIT to Patagonia to the United Nations Foundation - giving marketing and engineering teams a shared environment to ship the open web faster.
Uniform
Uniform is the composable, AI-powered digital experience platform that lets enterprise marketing and engineering teams orchestrate content, commerce, and personalization across every channel - without ripping out the systems they already own.
signageOS
signageOS is the hardware-agnostic operating layer for the world's digital signage networks. Born in Prague in 2016 from a frustration with proprietary device chaos, it gives developers a single set of APIs to write one HTML5 app and deploy it across 50+ signage platforms - Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, BrightSign, ChromeOS and the rest - while ops teams remotely monitor, troubleshoot and update every screen from one cloud console.
Webflow
Webflow is a San Francisco-based SaaS platform that lets designers, marketers, and developers build production-ready websites without writing code - or with it, if they want. Founded in 2013 after three failed attempts and a near-bankruptcy, the company grew into a $4 billion business serving over 300,000 teams including The New York Times, TED, Dropbox, Dell, Discord, and Monday.com. Its visual editor outputs clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript automatically, while its built-in CMS, hosting, ecommerce, and now AI-powered tools make it a full-stack web platform. In 2025 and 2026, Webflow pushed deeper into enterprise with a next-gen CMS, AI prompt-to-production site building, answer engine optimization (AEO), and the acquisitions of animation library GSAP and AI content platform Vidoso.ai.