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I remember that I was snobbish about my Django skills... with my college buddy who would build Wordpress sites for a buck or two here and there. The guy is in
by pen2l 10y ago
I remember that I was snobbish about my Django skills... with my college buddy who would build Wordpress sites for a buck or two here and there.
The guy is in Chicago right now and gets a lot of business from engineering firms. He is doing phenomenally well, he gets about 30-40k from (what appears to be) 20-40 hours of setting up fairly basic things with Wordpress.
That guy taught me well about my being snobbish.
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- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoWP is a classic worse-is-better icon. WP built a culture, which mostly works, not just a product, which - by any reasonable standard - is utter crap internally. Once you build a cultural monopoly, it's damn near impossible for a second mover to dismantle it. You have to wait for a new niche to colonise, or for WP to implode under the weight of its own awfulness. A new niche is hard to imagine in blog land, at least while we have today's web. And awful as it is, WP isn't quite so awful it's likely to implode. If it was, it would have done it by now. Your friend is making money because he's thinking like a business person who can offer a service, not like a developer who primarily thinks about tools, not cultures.