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kmfrk on Feb 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Layers – A simple WordPress site builder

Yeah, it's what prompted the creation of Ghost.

I sometimes see people doing more in WordPress than I have yet to get Django to do.

madeofpalk on Feb 21, 2015 [–]

Yeah, I know a startup which 'ingeniously' used Wordpress as their platform, turning it into a 'two sided commerce marketplace'.

I'm not sure if it was brilliance or stupidity.

mikeschinkel on Feb 21, 2015 | [–]

Question is, how is their business model performing? Has WP hurt or helped that? In that end, that is really what matters.

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