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Re: Prismic.io goes live

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Post by username223 » Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 7:26 PM UTC

sadache wrote: post #31

sunir wrote: post #11

A few things. I would expect a writing application to have incredible copywriting. You have to out-write the writers! Here are some examples where the text could be improved, though really the whole page needs to be rewritten using the inverted pyramid. 1. "Api" should be "API". 2. "You're the skilled developer, so why would it be ok to settle for technical constraints as soon as there's manageable content involved?"…

Thanks for the valuable feedback. Here is a question, do you think the following explains well the product? "prismic.io is a different approach to content management. It features a Writing Room for content writers to author and manage content, and a Content Query Api for developers to integrate managed content into any website or app."

I still have no idea what you're doing. Are you trying to be a middle-man between writers and content farms?

Re: Prismic.io goes live

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Post by megaman821 » Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 7:26 PM UTC

I have been using this approach internally for quite a while, a CMS that exposes all content through its API and then websites, mobile apps, etc. that consume the API. Taking it a step further you can build libraries in your favorite programming language against your API. This reduces building a Rails, Node.js, iOS, or Android app down to mostly design implementation.

Re: Prismic.io goes live

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Post by krmmalik » Tue, Apr 15, 2014, 7:57 PM UTC

What kind of guarantees are you providing that a company that will invest itd resources in creating content on your platform wont be held to ransom tomorrow by either price hikes or service closures or something else?

Re: Prismic.io goes live

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Post by bergie » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 8:02 PM UTC

Xdes wrote: post #14

I'd like to see an open source version of this. I like the API centric approach to site building, but I don't want some third party to have access to all of my content in one place.

Content repositories have been around for quite a while. At least Apache Jackrabbit has a RESTful API: https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

(for a binding to that API, see for example https://github.com/jackalope/jackalope-jackrabbit)