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elafforgue

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About elafforgue

Co-founder of www.locomotivecms.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8455912

    I understand your concern. To be honest, until a year ago, we didn't have a CTA on our homepage. We opted for that solution that was meant to be temporary and that should have been…

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    Comment #8455883

    It seems like we're heading in that direction. One thing that LocomotiveCMS did bring us is clients who need a custom CMS. In most cases, they'll start from some of Locomotive feat…

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    Comment #8455847

    No, we don't target the end customers. Though V3 and it's new user interface is definitely aimed as making content editing way more fun for them. You know, at first if felt really …

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    Comment #8455779

    That is correct, a vast majority of our users are Rails developers and we don't have a paid product for them right now. So we'll have to reach larger audiences for the hosting and …

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    Comment #8455736

    There sure is and these comments will definitely be taken into consideration in our website makeover.

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    Comment #8452465

    Thanks Rachel, I really appreciate your comment. When we introduced our very first paid services, we were very afraid to scare our open source community away and consequently, we w…

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    Comment #8452431

    Estelle from LocomotiveCMS here. Thanks everyone for the comments! We're in full agreement agreement that we need to improve our marketing, many thanks for the suggestions. You'll …

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    Comment #8452408

    Yes, it has helped us acquire high quality consulting clients. But we're at a stage where we no longer wish that revenues from consulting fund the project because time spent on con…

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    Comment #8452265

    We're in Europe. We made it to the HN frontpage during the night and I have better things to do during the night than anxiously monitoring what progress the post is making.