Weebly scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up, seeded with $650k by Ron Conway (who participated in our Downturn Event VC Panel) and other angel investors including seed fund Y Combinator, in June launched two products to help bring in revenue: The first was professional accounts (versions that users actually have to pay for), the second was Google AdSense integration into sites built using Weebly.

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The company is seeing roughly 35 percent month over month revenue growth, says co-founder and CEO David Rusenko — but that includes domain sales. The company wouldn’t say specifically how many users are paying to use Weebly — that is, using the premium version of Weebly — but it is “well over 1 percent,” said Rusenko. The company has 11 million unique visitors to pages created by people using Weebly’s service.

The six-employee company recently moved into new digs in San Fransisco.

Since June, the company has made incremental product releases — it now offers Safari and Google Chrome support, converts photos into a photo gallery, and offers drag and drop forums to name a few — but hasn’t yet offered the biggest feature request from users: the ability to edit or upload the CSS/HTML of the web pages.

Rusenko says CSS customization will be available in the next few months — but not before Weebly launches another product later this month. We’ll have more details in the next couple weeks.

The economic downturn hasn’t affected the company, Rusenko says.

David Adewumi, a contributing writer with VentureBeat, is the founder & CEO of http://heekya.com a social storytelling platform billed “The Wikipedia of Stories.”