Friday, March 8, 2019

New comment by ddri in "Launch HN: Cosmic JS (YC W19) - API-first drop-in replacement for WordPress"

Congrats on the progress so far. I can attest from spinning Corilla out of Red Hat and the journey we had with it, that there's always a niche for CMS or knowledge management tools.

Especially in the Series A to Series B segment, where ability to change, and necessity to remove complexity, meet the sudden availability of funds to assist. That's where your example of "you can pay X and hour for your engineer or Y a month for us to handle it" works well. How will you pitch this moving further up-market? Especially where the opex exists that dev costs are less important. And vendor lock-in (or likelihood of existing in five years) becomes an issue?

And further up the enterprise scale, the greater the demand for a robust open source community. Is this on your roadmap? If not, why not? Especially given you use Wordpress as an example, and most of the industry itself using open source as a basis for content engineering tools. It's now the default expectation. Even moreso with the likes of near competitors like Strapi being open source. Thoughts?

Your app library is nice, but much like Gatsby or Hugo... it's not "wow". Any plans to ramp up the devrel? How will you stand out from all the other headless CMS products? Especially with the likes of Contentful so well funded. Are you worried that the lack of open source cuts off the lower end of the market and community growth, and the war chest of competitors at the higher level of the market constrains your customer base somewhat?

And.. wat will CosmisJS look like in two and five years? What I love about CMS teams is the creativity and intent of the awesome people who run them, so I'd love to hear more about the big vision too! :)



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