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I think you’ve definitely identified the problem correctly. I’ve complained about this problem before on HN, since it’s the only place where people are wise eno
by pembrook 6y ago
I think you’ve definitely identified the problem correctly. I’ve complained about this problem before on HN, since it’s the only place where people are wise enough to not get swept up in the latest hype train.
If you want to do any regular content marketing/blogging, custom landing pages for SEO, a/b test copy, or even just update the design of your site...Jamstack paired with an enterprisey headless CMS is just an absolute freaking nightmare. I like to joke that Jamstack is the fastest way to build a site that nobody ever visits.
Literally every Saas company I work with has switched their marketing site over to Webflow for this reason (especially since most Saas companies get a majority of inbound leads through content).
And they seem to be pretty happy with it! So I think you’re definitely on the right path.
I have none of the traditional armchair critiques for you. Just keep doing what you’re doing! Marketing sites should be easily controlled by marketing people.
- raphael-gold 6y agoyes, that's a pattern that we saw as well! Teams migrating to webflow or wordpress to give back the autonomy to marketers. We also saw teams willing to migrate to the Jamstack from squarespace sites or webflow sites but not doing it because it would mean that marketers would lose their autonomy on the front-end. We felt these pattern should be broken and that Jamstack should be "marketer friendly" as well :)
- FanaHOVA 6y agoThere's a lot of tooling being built. uniform.dev and outsmartly.com for personalization, GraphCMS for content federation across data stores, etc. It's still pretty early days for the ecosystem.
- raphael-gold 6y agoAbsolutely, the Jamstack ecosystem is just beginning.
- harrisreynolds 6y agoI've built a competing tool but I will say I love what you guys are doing with open sourcing some of your components etc. Also love seeing Vue! It is game changer for us at WeBase. Lots of opportunity in this space... best of luck to you!
- raphael-gold 6y agogood luck to you too!
- harrisreynolds 6y agoAgree. I recently refactored WeBase [1] to be 100% Jamstack compliant so it can serve as the UI site builder for platforms like Netlify. But it is targeted at "no-coders" instead of coders given how out of balance the supply and demand is for software developers. We need more powerful tooling for professionals without coding skill to be able to build and maintain. And while Webflow is a really nice tool it still feels too hard to use for non-developers. [1] https://www.webase.com https://www.webase.com
- raphael-gold 6y agoyay! good luck with webase, good vibes in the name too :D