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Maybe I'm not clicking deep enough, but that marketing site looks like a super trivial Webflow CMS use-case. Although if your team is all engineers pushing to
by pembrook 3y ago
Maybe I'm not clicking deep enough, but that marketing site looks like a super trivial Webflow CMS use-case.
Although if your team is all engineers pushing to git every day, I could totally see how they'd find Webflow frustrating (since a UI instead of a codebase would be a huge pattern-interrupt for their daily workflow).
That said, once your startup grows, what typically happens is you'll need to bring in specialized marketing/sales/design/SEO folks (vs. Swiss army knife SV startup hustlers). Their hours are far cheaper than engineer-hours and they're also much better at marketing/sales/design/SEO work, like your landing pages & blog.
They will not be able to change anything on your slick NextJS/Vercel setup , and will be filing tickets daily and overwhelming your engineers.
Then you'll probably have to resort to some nightmarishly bloated "headless CMS," and waste a huge amount of time on implementation, and then it will be impossible to change.
That's when it makes sense to switch back to something like Webflow.
I've seen this happen multiple times.
- debarshri 3y agoWe use one of those headless CMS already. You have a point. It works for us for now, we will see how it turns out. You need a bit of discipline to execute it.