This Week in Website Builders (2026-07-17)
The weekly Builder Watch digest: 51 of 47 builders tracked clean, plus everything that moved.
2026-07-17 · read the story →This Week in Website Builders (2026-07-10)
The weekly Builder Watch digest: 53 of 47 builders tracked clean, plus everything that moved.
2026-07-10DeathwatchThe Graveyard File: Builders That Died or Froze, and What Their Users Lost
Eleven platforms in our graveyard, one shared lesson: when a builder dies, its users rebuild from screenshots. The record of the fallen, kept current.
2026-07-07The recordThe Renewal Trap: What Builders Advertise vs What the Renewal Bill Says
Teaser first-term pricing with double-or-worse renewals is a standard industry play. The July 2026 numbers, from our verified pricing files.
2026-07-07The recordThe Record, January 2026: Wix Shipped Harmony. You Still Cannot Export Your Site.
Wix's biggest AI release yet redesigned the editor. The policy that matters most to owners, taking your site with you when you leave, did not change.
2026-07-07The recordThe Record, January 2026: Mailchimp Gutted Its Free Plan
The free tier that built Mailchimp's empire got cut to the bone in January, and thousands of small senders discovered their marketing stack had a landlord.
2026-07-07The recordThe Record: The First Half of 2026 in Website Builders
Six months of price hikes, stealth fees, AI bets and slow deaths, assembled in one timeline from the Builder Watch research files.
2026-07-07Terms watchBigCommerce Spent Years Marketing Against Transaction Fees. In June It Added One.
A new 2 percent Open Payment Provider Fee, GMV caps cut roughly in half, and the announcement published on a page not linked from the main site.
2026-07-05Price alertWebflow's May Repricing, Two Months Later: The Receipts and the Fallout
Plan consolidation moved monthly Basic up roughly 39 percent, auto-migrated CMS users up about 34 percent, and bandwidth caps pushed documented cases past a 300 percent increase.
2026-07-05DeathwatchWeebly's Support Commitment Window Is Closing. Square Is Still Selling Subscriptions.
Square staff would not commit to supporting the Weebly editor beyond mid-2026. The deadline territory is here, development has been frozen for years, and the checkout page is still live.
2026-07-05Community pulse · complaint-flagged posts in today's sweep
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Builder Watch tracks the pricing pages and health of 47 website builders every day, keeps timestamped receipts, and reports only changes we can prove. It is run by Marketing By Magnet, which also builds PISCES, an AI website builder, so you know exactly where we stand: we compete with some of the companies we cover, and we publish the receipts so you never have to take our word for anything.