This Week in Website Builders (2026-07-10)

The week on the wire

Builder Watch fetched pricing pages across the industry every day this week: 53 of 47 builders tracked clean, 2 showing unconfirmed page changes we are watching (a change only becomes news here after it persists 20+ hours; builders A/B test prices, and we do not publish ghosts).

Community pulse (complaint-flagged Reddit posts this week): r/squarespace: 73, r/q:shopify: 72, r/q:wix: 62, r/WordPress: 55, r/q:squarespace: 50.

• The Graveyard File: Builders That Died or Froze, and What Their Users Lost (2026-07-07)
• The Renewal Trap: What Builders Advertise vs What the Renewal Bill Says (2026-07-07)
• The Record, January 2026: Wix Shipped Harmony. You Still Cannot Export Your Site. (2026-07-07)
• The Record, January 2026: Mailchimp Gutted Its Free Plan (2026-07-07)
• The Record: The First Half of 2026 in Website Builders (2026-07-07)
• BigCommerce Spent Years Marketing Against Transaction Fees. In June It Added One. (2026-07-05)
• Webflow's May Repricing, Two Months Later: The Receipts and the Fallout (2026-07-05)
• Weebly's Support Commitment Window Is Closing. Square Is Still Selling Subscriptions. (2026-07-05)

Why a digest even in quiet weeks

Because the value of a watchdog is that it was watching. Every week this machine archives receipts for every builder it tracks; when one of them moves, the before and after are already on file.

About Builder Watch

Builder Watch tracks the pricing pages and health of 47 website builders every day, keeps timestamped receipts, and reports only changes we can prove. It is run by Marketing By Magnet, which also builds PISCES, an AI website builder, so you know exactly where we stand: we compete with some of the companies we cover, and we publish the receipts so you never have to take our word for anything.