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Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Gatsby is about 3 years old. I wonder how it would have worked out if in 2007 DHH and co had pivoted from Basecamp to Rails Inc and raised funding?

Of course, to be fair, Meteor is still in business after taking the same path (though it seems most efforts are directed at Apollo?)

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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Gatsby co-founder here. We're super excited for this so we can make Gatsby even more awesome. Happy to answer any Qs!

You're getting questions about target market, and I'm pretty sure the answer is web development agencies, right? Any shop with a high volume of projects will need a development pipeline, stack, and ops story that is straight forward and fast to work with.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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post #32
post #28

Gatsby co-founder here. We're super excited for this so we can make Gatsby even more awesome. Happy to answer any Qs!

You're getting questions about target market, and I'm pretty sure the answer is web development agencies, right? Any shop with a high volume of projects will need a development pipeline, stack, and ops story that is straight forward and fast to work with.

Yep! Right now we're seeing a mix of customers that's roughly 1/3 web development agencies, 1/3 e-commerce websites, and 1/3 B2C lead generation websites.

The value proposition of Gatsby to website agencies is working with modern tech & completing projects faster, and for e-commerce it's higher conversion rates which add $$ to the bottom line.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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This is extremely surprising, right? I clicked the headline thinking it was a shame some tech company chose the same name as a fairly popular static site generator. I guess when I see things like $50/mo for them to host a site, I just assume it's an extremely small team with a couple clients.

Thanks for the feedback!

Gatsby has existed as an open-source project for >4 years, but we just launched our CMS Preview in open beta about 3 months ago -- lots more to come on that front!

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

#36

I have no idea how well the hosted service works, but Gatsby has been one of my favorite frameworks for a while, and I'm happy they're throwing some extra talent into making it awesome.

Thanks! We're really excited to be able to invest even more in open source. If there are particular features that would be helpful for you please open an issue on the repo!

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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So, a Wordpress competitor? I'm curious to hear more.

It's actually quite common to use Wordpress as a backend for a Gatsby site. So: build your UI in React with Gatsby, store your content with Wordpress.

There's an out-of-the-box Wordpress/Gatsby integration, and we recently hired Jason Bahl, the creator of WPGraphQL, to make that integration even better!

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

#39
Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand?

I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always stop posting because I need to be in my coding environment to do so (and if I'm there, I might as well be working on code). I'd really like to find something that I could use to make a post on my gaming pc, for example, where I can add images easily (and have them resized properly). I feel like I should probably just set up a wordpress site, but wanted to know if I had other options.

Re: Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

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calcsam: How do you think about defensibility? One might think that because the underlying tech is open source, someone else can also spring up a hosting service. Is that not an issue because agencies would want the official hosting for the open source project because they want the reassurance?

Or is it for another reason this isn't an issue?

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