We're trying to do something similar at Flooha. Anyone can create a free website, which they own, using the software of their choosing. We will open it up very soon so that developers can upload their own apps which users can then use to create sites. It's only PHP apps right now, but we'll add rails apps very soon.
Sites like Weebly and Yola are great and really easy to use, but can you move that site to a different host? Maybe you can export to html (I haven't checked), but you sure can't keep all the drag and drop / site building functionality if you want to move to a different host and you can't host it on your own server.
Also, you're limited to the addons and "apps" (photo gallery, eCommerce, etc...) that they develop for their platform. If your site is built or hosted by Flooha, you can take it anywhere at any time and use any app or addon you want. Even if an app isn't available on Flooha, you can still install it like you would on any other web host.
We're trying to make apps "user-ware" instead of "nerd-ware".
Sites like Weebly and Yola are great and really easy to use, but can you move that site to a different host? Maybe you can export to html (I haven't checked), but you sure can't keep all the drag and drop / site building functionality if you want to move to a different host and you can't host it on your own server.
Also, you're limited to the addons and "apps" (photo gallery, eCommerce, etc...) that they develop for their platform. If your site is built or hosted by Flooha, you can take it anywhere at any time and use any app or addon you want. Even if an app isn't available on Flooha, you can still install it like you would on any other web host.
We're trying to make apps "user-ware" instead of "nerd-ware".