Yet another website builder startup wants to take on Wix and Squarespace

Date:
Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:52:25 +0000

Description:
Universe adds new features to its mobile app website builder GRID including new themes and templates.

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In a bid to make a name for itself against the likes of Wix or Squarespace , Universe, a website builder and commerce platform built for mobile devices
has announced a raft of updates to its GRID system.

The company said the updated feature on its website building mobile app is as simple as putting Lego-like building blocks together.

The new update, GRID II, will be launched in stages over the next month, providing Universe customers with a no-code creation and commerce tool.
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Universes GRID is the main element of the companys website building app, and is a gesture-based interface that allows users to build a site by tapping, dragging, and pinching building blocks.

The GRID II update includes additional features to the Universe app that will help users customize their websites, including stores and product offerings
as well as new website themes and a redesigned creative control offering.

As well as a new style kit, Universe introduced layers, a new feature set
that aims to redefine how users create compositions and design websites on
the GRID. Website creators will be able to layer blocks on top of each other, stack and arrange their order in the app.

If you wanted to use a computer in 1980, you needed to know how to code. The advent of graphical user interfaces allowed anyone to use a computer. The Universe GRID is a GUI for creating the internet: now anyone who uses the internet can create it, said Joseph Cohen, founder and CEO of Universe.

The internet is humankinds greatest invention - a constantly evolving web of our art, ideas, hopes, dreams, fears, and experiences. It has the promise to reflect all of us.

Ryan Poolos, Universes Chief Technology Officer and Product Lead, echoed
Cohen by stating that this is a level-up moment for the GRID as a platform.

Were introducing and designing these features together to create a seamless platform for expression. Users will be able to build so much more with this new platform and from a technical standpoint, were also laying a new foundation for even more platform extensions in the future, Poolos added.

Its been a full team effort to plan, design, and engineer a platform
extension that is powerful, remains simple, and is opt-in only for all existing sites. Ive never been more excited about the future of the GRID. Why not check out our list of the best web hosting services right now



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