Likewise. I’ve been working in a similar stack. It really is amazing to work with. Now, we’re just starting to use Netlify’s open source CMS which uses git to handle content versioning. Did you guys look at that at all before picking Contentful? I think Contentful looks awesome too, just curious if there were any pros/cons between the two.
I think there are a few nice perks, such as visualising the models you produce as well as the media library aspects. End of the day it felt a bit more friendly for the marketing guys to understand and use (They arent changing or configuring YAML). The developer team were happy to use either and I think if you are working with a pure dev team then there is no issue using Netlify openCMS, but where there are "business" users involved, the confluent UI proves to give the right level of abstraction away from coding (Yes even markdown files scares some people!). It also feels a lot closer to the traditional CMS for content creation, they like to see the layout and previews, images rendered before fully publishing etc.
We also found the pricing model at contentful to be really friendly, to set up a proof of concept and allow the business users to mess around creating their content with the benefits mentioned in the previous paragraph made it an easy sell when it came to moving into a small subscription. There's also the support model wrapped around all of this and since the content is served over multiple channels, the internal due diligence from service management and security teams forced our hand to an extent to keep away from a self hosted open source product.
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Likewise. I’ve been working in a similar stack. It really is amazing to work with. Now, we’re just starting to use Netlify’s open source CMS which uses git to handle content versioning. Did you guys look at that at all before picking Contentful? I think Contentful looks awesome too, just curious if there were any pros/cons between the two.
I think there are a few nice perks, such as visualising the models you produce as well as the media library aspects. End of the day it felt a bit more friendly for the marketing guys to understand and use (They arent changing or configuring YAML). The developer team were happy to use either and I think if you are working with a pure dev team then there is no issue using Netlify openCMS, but where there are "business" users involved, the confluent UI proves to give the right level of abstraction away from coding (Yes even markdown files scares some people!). It also feels a lot closer to the traditional CMS for content creation, they like to see the layout and previews, images rendered before fully publishing etc.
We also found the pricing model at contentful to be really friendly, to set up a proof of concept and allow the business users to mess around creating their content with the benefits mentioned in the previous paragraph made it an easy sell when it came to moving into a small subscription. There's also the support model wrapped around all of this and since the content is served over multiple channels, the internal due diligence from service management and security teams forced our hand to an extent to keep away from a self hosted open source product.