Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M led by General Catalyst

Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:54PM (#15856379)

End-users clearly love to use them (Wordpress esp.), but if the statement was rephrased as "no developer likes to implement or support them" it might be more plausible.

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by chickenfries on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:03PM (#15856464)

That statement is honestly not without controversy either. Outside of the HN crowd, do you know how easy it is to find Wordpress developers? They all can't possibly hate it.

Headless CMSs are definitely preferred by some front-end /mobile devs who develop apps and publications. But that is a really, really small group compared to web developers and CMS users overall.

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by meebs on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:20PM (#15856587)

I'd suggest that WP developers exist because of the demand for WP developers and not because they enjoy it. How many people would be doing boring CRUD if it didn't earn them money?

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by chickenfries on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:18AM (#15858738)

Lot's of people are developers because they like building things, solving business problems, understanding users technical needs... I'm amazed that you think the only kind of satisfaction people can derive from their work is by constantly chasing the new and shiny.

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by TylerE on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:32PM (#15858243)

Plenty of people?

Boring is good.

Boring means I don't get phone calls at 11PM on a Saturday night.

Boring means work isn't my life.

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by chickenfries on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:21AM (#15858742)

There are other communities they could go to. There are plenty of other thriving PHP communities that you could move to, like Laravel or even Drupal. I just don't know how you look at all these successful communities that have lots of talent, conferences, meetups, etc and say "wow they all must hate wordpress"

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Re:Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M ... by AznHisoka on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:52PM (#15858323)

99% of people in this Earth are doing jobs because it earns them money.

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