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Company | Cykod | ||
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| http://webiva.org | ||||
| Founded: | 1/10/08 | |||
| City: | Boston, Massachusetts | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Pascal Rettig | |||
| Founders: | Pascal Rettig, Martha Rettig | |||
| Category: | Other | Funding: | Bootstrapping | |
| Tags: | cms, rails, ruby | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does Cykod do?
Our company Cykod has created an Open-source Ruby on Rails CMS called Webiva which lets you build and manage completely customized websites from inside of the interface. We have support for forums, e-commerce, social networking and a whole bunch of other stuff people need to build top-of-the-line websites.
How are they different?
Web professionals need a better CMS. Currently there are two options: A blog engine like Wordpress, user-friendly but limited, or a full-stack CMS like Drupal, powerful but difficult to use, integrate, and manage. Our solution is Webiva – a Rails-based system that gives you the accessibility of a blog engine with all the features of a big CMS on the back-end. We want to give professionals the ability to build and maintain well-designed and powerful websites without the pain.
Why could Cykod be BIG?
The three big PHP CMS’s (Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla) combine for over 300k downloads per month. Besides Webiva, there is no open-source Ruby on Rails CMS that matches the feature set of the current PHP-based leaders, so we have the opportunity to take the next generation CMS market by storm.
How they plan to make money:
We will be hosting a SaaS platform for Webiva (similar to Wordpress.com) that will allow people to build websites on a load-balanced, backed-up & replicated cloud without the hassle of installing and maintaining a Rails installation.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://webiva.org
Martha and Pascal – Just wanted to formally state that I love the right brain/left brain aspect of what you do – go!
Best – Pam
They didn’t mention that it also has a significantly different model for presenting data from the database which allows designers a bigger place in the sun and a lot more freedom to totally control the look of the site. If Webiva catches on, it may unleash currently tethered design creativity and change the look of the most innovative blogs and shopping sites, which in my opinion currently have an obnoxiously “database bound” look, no matter how much they are tarted up with eye candy around the edges. Like Pam said, there is a unusual and noteworthy combination of “right brain/left brain” intelligence built into Webiva.