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The folks at Development Seed are doing really awesome work I am also a member of the Development Seed fan club, having met many of the team members. Though,
by epoxyhockey 13y ago
The folks at Development Seed are doing really awesome work
I am also a member of the Development Seed fan club, having met many of the team members. Though, I feel like they should update their PR statement. Every time they are mentioned in an article, the Drupal past comes out: The startup first made its mark in the DC tech scene consulting on Drupal I think we can all agree that mentioning one's history working with Drupal is not going to convey a feeling of cutting edge work by a, frankly, team of brilliant engineers like Dev Seed. I have done work with Drupal in the past, yet it does not appear on my resume.
Instead, they could be saying something like: Development Seed, makers of Mapbox and Tile Mill, which directly competes with Google Maps products, and in many ways is better, develops and promotes technologies and methodologies reminiscent of Bay Area start-ups.
These guys really do not get enough credit, even with a minor mention in the Atlantic article.
- digiphile 13y agoThis was definitely more than a minor mention :)
- snowwrestler 13y agoTheir history with Drupal is a key part of their value story in DC, where Drupal is cutting edge--it is rapidly replacing expensive proprietary CMS solutions for many federal agencies and nonprofits. Although it might be hard to believe here on HN, saying something is "reminiscent of Bay Area start-ups" means jack squat to the folks in DC who spend a lot of money on web projects.