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Every 5 years or so there is one of those CMS with edit inline, I always wish them the best but they usually don't stick around? Good idea but bad idea?

by keyle 6y ago

codingdave 6y ago
I built one of the first of these in the original dotcom boom. The reason ours didn't stick around was because it just wasn't that difficult of a problem. People were willing to pay a little for a CMS, but not a lot. They thought editing live on the page was pretty nifty, but didn't actually add enough value for them to pay extra for it. As the web matured, and more people were capable of putting together web pages, the floor dropped out of the pricing for such tools. So it isn't that there is a problem with the concept - most people like the actual app. It just doesn't solve a problem that people are willing to pay much for, which makes these types of CMS tools interesting, but not great businesses.
- narag 6y ago
  I built one of the first of these in the original dotcom boom. It's weird to hear that the idea has been floating around for so long. I'm working in yet another version of it. Would you mind pinging me by email? It's in my profile. I wouldn't like to repeat errors. You say people are not willing to pay for it, maybe there's some other way to add value...?
  - codingdave 6y ago
    I added my email to my profile - feel free to reach out. But in short, my work is and always has been around content management. However, the value of my products is no longer the ability to put a document online - there are plenty of solutions for that. My recent products offer value by making the document authoring part of a larger workflow solution, tailored to improving the lives of people who consume the documents, and helping build products that allow content to flow between people, sites, and systems. That may be overly vague, but the point is the value comes from workflow, not individual documents.

Every 5 years or so there is one of those CMS with edit inline, I always wish them the best but they usually don't stick around? Good idea but bad idea?

by keyle 6y ago

Every 5 years or so there is one of those CMS with edit inline, I always wish them the best but they usually don't stick around? Good idea but bad idea?

codingdave 6y ago

I built one of the first of these in the original dotcom boom. The reason ours didn't stick around was because it just wasn't that difficult of a problem. People were willing to pay a little for a CMS, but not a lot. They thought editing live on the page was pretty nifty, but didn't actually add enough value for them to pay extra for it. As the web matured, and more people were capable of putting together web pages, the floor dropped out of the pricing for such tools. So it isn't that there is a problem with the concept - most people like the actual app. It just doesn't solve a problem that people are willing to pay much for, which makes these types of CMS tools interesting, but not great businesses.

narag 6y ago
I built one of the first of these in the original dotcom boom. It's weird to hear that the idea has been floating around for so long. I'm working in yet another version of it. Would you mind pinging me by email? It's in my profile. I wouldn't like to repeat errors. You say people are not willing to pay for it, maybe there's some other way to add value...?
- codingdave 6y ago
  I added my email to my profile - feel free to reach out. But in short, my work is and always has been around content management. However, the value of my products is no longer the ability to put a document online - there are plenty of solutions for that. My recent products offer value by making the document authoring part of a larger workflow solution, tailored to improving the lives of people who consume the documents, and helping build products that allow content to flow between people, sites, and systems. That may be overly vague, but the point is the value comes from workflow, not individual documents.