Ask HN: Do you use an in-house CMS?

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Do you use an in-house CMS? If so, why? What are the pro's and con's of using it? Have you considered a custom solution over something built on top of WordPress or any other popular system? How should a Web Development agency go about providing in-house custom CMS solutions? What difficulties would that company face while marketing such services?

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We used to have our own in-house CMS built in .Net (at least 10 years ago) and it was a pain to maintain and provide updates for, however we replaced that with MODX - which was better and we helped in the community alot and pushed changes back. It was nice knowing every line of code was ours - and having all the expertise inhouse was a bonus, but hiring was a challenge as everyone starts from 0 experience

This was easier but we still had some clients that "wanted wordpress" even if it was a bad design decision, so we would then need to educate them on the why and see if we could change there opinion.

These days we pick and choose the right platform for the job, between Laravel/MODX/Wordpress/Magento/etc.

Being more flexible has it's own drawbacks too though.

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