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This seems like a bit of the perennially-linked "Choose Boring Technology" bit. Your corporate landing page/blog is unlikely to need anything fancy. This is tru

This seems like a bit of the perennially-linked "Choose Boring Technology" bit. Your corporate landing page/blog is unlikely to need anything fancy. This is true especially if you aren't in tech, while the article focuses on YC startups, so a tech subset of (or subset of tech) startups. The categories listed do seem most likely to be cases where there isn't much need for anything fancy on the website front.

catsarebetter 3y ago
I chose YC startups bc they tend to be locked into early technology trends specifically bc 1. everyone tries them out on each other and 2. they need to leverage every advantage to make great product, being a tech early adopter is one of them. It's true, choosing boring tech works. I analyzed some data to show that most YC companies in the last few years prefer Webflow by far. They seem to prefer it for their marketing sites. But I do think that it's impressive that some people in this tech-obsessed niche chose WP still.
- lobochrome 3y ago
  Never heard of Webflow before. My god 11 years old. 335M$ funding. 600+ employees. Not public. How on earth would you make a call to rely on something like this? All the runway they might have had last summer will end soon…
  - bnchrch 3y ago
    > Never heard of Webflow before. Have you been living under a rock? Not trying to be cheeky but its been the only tool brought up in the conversation of "what should we use for our marketing website" for the better part of 5 years. edit: Their pricing can become outrageous, Ive heard of some companies paying five figures a year for their Webflow CMS, for multiple years. So I dont think their last raise is the only money in that bank account
    - ipaddr 3y ago
      I've never heard of it either. Might be more popular in the uk.
    - mdorazio 3y ago
      Also never heard of it before now.
- hoofhearted 3y ago
  Docusaurus on Netlify with the Netlify CMS panel is the more popular method for agile and scrappy startups currently. Plausible is doing this: https://plausible.io/ https://plausible.io/ Also Algolia: https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/what-is-docsearch https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/what-is-docsearch
herbst 3y ago
If the simple marketing landing page of a project is slow because it runs a huge substack of PHP for literally nothing I wouldn't qualify that as boring tech but just lazy. You don't need a dynamic CMS for a boring landing page. The only reason I still use Wordpress is e-commerce where plenty of overhead is the standard anyway

catsarebetter 3y ago

I chose YC startups bc they tend to be locked into early technology trends specifically bc 1. everyone tries them out on each other and 2. they need to leverage every advantage to make great product, being a tech early adopter is one of them. It's true, choosing boring tech works. I analyzed some data to show that most YC companies in the last few years prefer Webflow by far. They seem to prefer it for their marketing sites. But I do think that it's impressive that some people in this tech-obsessed niche chose WP still.

lobochrome 3y ago
Never heard of Webflow before. My god 11 years old. 335M$ funding. 600+ employees. Not public. How on earth would you make a call to rely on something like this? All the runway they might have had last summer will end soon…
- bnchrch 3y ago
  > Never heard of Webflow before. Have you been living under a rock? Not trying to be cheeky but its been the only tool brought up in the conversation of "what should we use for our marketing website" for the better part of 5 years. edit: Their pricing can become outrageous, Ive heard of some companies paying five figures a year for their Webflow CMS, for multiple years. So I dont think their last raise is the only money in that bank account
  - ipaddr 3y ago
    I've never heard of it either. Might be more popular in the uk.
  - mdorazio 3y ago
    Also never heard of it before now.
hoofhearted 3y ago
Docusaurus on Netlify with the Netlify CMS panel is the more popular method for agile and scrappy startups currently. Plausible is doing this: https://plausible.io/ https://plausible.io/ Also Algolia: https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/what-is-docsearch https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/what-is-docsearch

herbst 3y ago

If the simple marketing landing page of a project is slow because it runs a huge substack of PHP for literally nothing I wouldn't qualify that as boring tech but just lazy. You don't need a dynamic CMS for a boring landing page. The only reason I still use Wordpress is e-commerce where plenty of overhead is the standard anyway