Sorry for my ignorance - I have never heared of you. Since you have hundreds of thousands users it will be fairly easy for you to link us some (say 1000-2000 links in publicly available google sheet) of unique websites that says "Powered by uKit" on them? That would be really great proof of your track record.
It seems that you’ve never been interested in researching website builders
First off, there are a few things to consider:
We have 2 main independent products in the website building niche: uCoz and uKit. Both are already popular on mass market, though uKit is fresher and more modern. Basically, for us it’s a logical spin-off of the good old uCoz, but having a different audience and meeting present-day needs. They have different goals, target audiences and user bases.
You might not have heard of them as our main territory is Eastern Europe. But it doesn’t mean that there’s no information about us in the English-speaking segment. You can easily google us and find reviews about our website builders, guides, testimonials and so on, they have been around for a long time.
There are also English-speaking themed top lists of website builders that name us one of the best products on the market, for example:
https://superbwebsitebuilders.com/https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2484510,00.aspThere were big milestones in the history of our company:
- A deal with Yandex about their free hosting narod.ru
- An investment round (a while ago) from DST (also famous for their investments into Facebook, Groupon, Zynga, Mail.Ru). And, of course, throughout its history, our company has gone through due diligences way more serious than that you are conducting now based on forum answers and your personal judgement.
You can read about it here, for example:
http://www.ewdn.com/2013/02/18/yandex-to-transfer-website-hosting-service-to-ucoz/I’m all for objectiveness and facts. You take everything with a pinch of salt, so let’s clarify things — it’ll be right and fair.
https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Press-Releases/2011/11/comScore-Releases-Overview-of-European-Internet-Usage-in-September-2011Here you can see that our service has been around for a while and was featured by big and reputable analytic companies.
As far as the examples of users’ websites go, I’m afraid, there’s no way to show all our websites following one specific footprint with one request. We use different brand names for our products (in one product) and image logos in site footers as anchor links. The system’s copyrights are removed when users buy premium packages and in case of uKit even without purchasing a plan.
Surely, on our side we can export the list of all websites that we serve, but, as you can understand, this will be a dream of search spammers come true, a gift, not to mention the ethical side of the matter in connection with our clients, and our trade secret.
But certainly there are third-party services that make it possible to measure the amount, find and view a part of it:
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-ucoz/all/allhttps://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/allhttps://statonline.ru/domains?tld=ru&dns=ns2.ucoz.nethttps://statonline.ru/domains?tld=ru&dns=ns1.ukit.com(We have to understand that this is only one domain extension, one connection method. We offer to connect a domain via Name Servers or IP pointing, and only paying users can have a custom second-level domain.)
It would really helped if you could prove at least some expertise in data science and machine learning. So far your experts looks a little pale.
Honestly, I can’t agree with you. Since I spent a while building our Neural Network team, small so far though, I had an opportunity to research and communicate with all kinds of specialists. I am sure that our guys have a strong basis, and, more than that, have experience in production, while in this sphere you typically come across people with only theoretical background without its practical application.
But certainly, since ICO is about fundraising, and the main tasks lie exactly in the ML field, we will need to grow and empower our team, and a significant part of funding will be spent on this.
I’ll be happy to answer all the questions you might have. And I will appreciate if you read all the information. I just have a feeling that you tend to grab pieces from here and there.