When we opened the doors in June, we pictured a small-business owner somewhere describing their shop in a few sentences and watching a real website appear. We didn't picture how many places that someone would turn out to live in. Over a thousand people, in 103 countries and territories, have now done exactly that.
We're a small team, and Ullbek is still new. Trying a new tool takes trust, and trusting it with the front door of your business takes more. So before anything else: thank you. Every site you built taught us something, and every one of you who wrote in to tell us what was confusing made Ullbek better for the next person.
A pin for every country
Below is every country and territory someone has joined Ullbek from. Each gets one pin, the same size. This map isn't a leaderboard: someone in Fiji and a whole street of barbers in Manchester mean just as much to us. Hover or tap a pin to see where it is, or pick a region.
Every inhabited continent. Hover or tap a pin.
The map couldn't load just now. Every country is listed in the table below.
To say it properly, here's thank you in some of the languages you build in:
Where you are, region by region
The same 103 places, listed alphabetically within each region, with a few of the sites people there have built. We've described the sites rather than naming them, because they belong to their owners.
| Region | Countries & territories |
|---|---|
| Africa23 places | Algeria · Angola · Benin · Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Côte d’Ivoire · DR Congo · Egypt · Ethiopia · Ghana · Kenya · Libya · Morocco · Nigeria · Republic of the Congo · Senegal · South Africa · South Sudan · Sudan · Togo · Tunisia · Uganda · Zambia A neighbourhood bistro, an optician, a doctor's clinic, a family bread bakery, a logistics company, a portrait muralist's portfolio. |
| Americas15 places | Argentina · Belize · Brazil · Canada · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Haiti · Jamaica · Mexico · Peru · Puerto Rico · United States · Uruguay · Venezuela Two pizzerias in Fortaleza, a handyman service, a family farm, an ice-cream creamery, a coffee shop, a collection of guitar chords, a diary of every concert someone has seen live. |
| Asia23 places | Afghanistan · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Cambodia · Georgia · Hong Kong · India · Indonesia · Japan · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan · Laos · Malaysia · Myanmar · Nepal · Pakistan · Philippines · Singapore · South Korea · Sri Lanka · Thailand · Uzbekistan · Vietnam An ENT clinic and an orthopaedic centre, a row of restaurants in Tbilisi, a district school, a fuel station, a dry-fruit shop, Japanese vocabulary flashcards. |
| Europe29 places | Albania · Austria · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Croatia · Cyprus · Czechia · Estonia · Finland · France · Germany · Greece · Hungary · Ireland · Italy · Netherlands · North Macedonia · Norway · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Serbia · Slovenia · Spain · Sweden · Switzerland · Türkiye · Ukraine · United Kingdom Barbers and salons across Manchester, a traditional inn in Leipzig, a car-repair garage in Uppsala, a satellite-dish installer, a primary school, a cocktail bar in Rome. |
| Middle East9 places | Bahrain · Iraq · Israel · Jordan · Kuwait · Oman · Saudi Arabia · United Arab Emirates · Yemen A school, a shawarma grill, a travel agency, a perfume house, a car-detailing studio, an anniversary page for someone's partner. |
| Oceania4 places | Australia · Fiji · New Zealand · Papua New Guinea A car wash, a market stall, a rubbish-removal service in Canberra, a strength coach. |
What you built
We expected websites for small businesses, and you built plenty. We didn't expect how personal some of them would be, or how much they'd differ from one another. No two look alike, because none of them started from a template. Each one was built around what its owner described.
- Barbers, salons and beauty studios. Booking details, price lists, before-and-after galleries. One of the most common kinds of site so far.
- Restaurants, cafés and bakeries. Menus, opening hours, a map, a phone number you can tap. Shawarma, pizza, simit, siomai, burgers.
- Schools and teachers. Primary schools, study groups, revision quizzes. One school's site was passed from parent to parent on WhatsApp and opened more than 700 times in its first two days.
- Clinics and practitioners. An ENT surgeon, an orthopaedic centre, skin specialists, aesthetics clinics, counsellors.
- Trades and local services. Plumbers, garage-door fitters, car detailers, rubbish removal, satellite installers, a fuel station.
- Makers and shops. Crochet, perfume, dry fruit, jewellery, handmade cakes, 3D materials.
- Things made with love. Birthday pages, anniversary letters, a collection of guitar chords, a list of every concert someone has been to. Not every website has to sell anything.
And you built them in your own languages. Sites on Ullbek are written in more than 25 languages, including Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, German, Japanese, Georgian and Thai. You describe the site in the language you think in, and that's the language it's built in.
From a sentence to a live site
The comment we hear most is some version of "I didn't expect it to be that quick." Here's what the numbers say:
That half hour usually includes a round or two of changes: "make the header warmer," "add our opening hours," "put the menu before the gallery." You ask for a change in plain words, see it on your real site, and publish when you're happy. There are no blocks to drag and no hosting to set up, and nobody needs to learn what DNS is. If you'd been putting off a website for years, we hope that's the part you noticed.
Our first review
This week our first Trustpilot review arrived. It's five stars, from a verified customer, and the whole review is three words:
"Life made easy."
That's the job, in three words. To whoever wrote it: thank you. You'll never know how many times we've read it. And if Ullbek has made something easier for you too, we'd be grateful if you told others on Trustpilot, whatever your experience was. Honest reviews help the next person decide whether to trust us.
What comes next
A lot of what we've shipped since June started as one of your messages, like sending contact-form enquiries to whichever inbox you choose. Keep telling us what gets in your way. Reply to any email from us, or tell your site's assistant, and it reaches us.
To everyone who has tried Ullbek, in Fiji or Finland, Senegal or Sweden, Peru or the Philippines, Kenya or Korea: thank you for trusting us with your corner of the internet. We'll keep working to earn it.
— The Ullbek team
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