I once cooked up an implementation targeted at the "Local Events" vertical. It implemented 100% of Zvents feature set and took 15 hours to put together. That te

I once cooked up an implementation targeted at the "Local Events" vertical. It implemented 100% of Zvents feature set and took 15 hours to put together. That tells me everything I need to know about effectiveness. Basically my point boils down to this: there are freely available, insanely flexible, totally customizable CMS's that have been under active development for a decade or more. Given how long it takes to create truly polished software of any kind, starting a CMS project from thin air doesn't make sense, you're hundreds of thousands of developer hours behind existing projects on day one.