A website builder is an empowerment tool, too important to be mainly shaped by marketing.


We are not in the business of coercing users into buying the idea of building a site they will never work with.


We conceived SimDif for people who have a good idea of what their readers and clients need, but don't know how to go about actively building an effective website. 

 

We designed our service to guide users to focus on the organisation of the content of their website and cater to both their readers and search engines at the same time.


We are thinking about empowering our users before selling them something.


This seems to be a simple sentence. But actually most website builders are conceived to sell what a newcomer would find desirable _ independently of the realities of the web. 

Most simplified website builders today are conceived more to offer an experience clients will purchase rather than increasing the opportunities for users to create effective websites.


We actually conceived SimDif as a social impact venture


When more than 2 billion NEW Internet users, equipped with only a phone, are discovering and building their place on the web. A Website builder App working from any mobile device, becomes an effective empowerment tool, with a tangible impact in 5 crucial domains :

Promoting Economic Growth
Can we provide a simplified, ethical, yet effective way for SMEs and self-employed professionals to promote themselves ? Our challenge is to allow anybody to be visible on Google and to clearly offer their services or goods on the web.

Digital Education
Building a website is an opportunity to understand by yourself how online content is chosen, formatted and organized for a specific audience.
It seems to us so basically important to understand this that we are also preparing SchoolDif,
an affordable and modern presentation tool for classrooms. SchoolDif is designed to transparently help students to become smarter and safer web users.

Freedom of Speech
SimDif offers free Apps, on iOS and Android. Anyone can create and completely control their own website with their phone or tablet, from anywhere in the world, for free.

Cultural Diversity
Thousands of languages and cultures are under-represented on the web.
The V2 includes a tool to translate the service into almost any language. We hope to serve at least 200 Languages within the next 3 years.

Community Empowerment
Helping people organize themselves, online, without technical background.
We don't host illegal activities, hate discourse, pornography or scams. But we are happy to host anything else on our servers based in France, where no external institution has the right to access and regulate one's content.

     Click below to see the presentation explaining :

     How a simple website builder becomes a Social impact venture

Respect for privacy, use of personal data and security 


It is a growing concern nowadays with the recent hack of 3 million Yahoo accounts or the professionally organized abuse of personal data through social media.

Putting Security and Privacy before marketing has been a core value of Simple Different since its creation - here are some examples :

• We don't keep the account data of people who no longer SimDif, not even their email addresses. It also makes the service lighter to manage, and helps us to keep the Paying version as affordable as possible.

• So we can't spam or resell these addresses later. It also makes our servers much less likely to be hacked as there is not so much to steal.

• We cannot access the passwords of our users. We can only see the published site. This also reduces the chances of external hacks, and if they did happen, hackers would be able to achieve less with the heavily encrypted passwords.

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