https://wpbiz.dev/black-friday/

It’s a good way for a relatively newbie website to get some backlinks and exposure.

Here’s how you can submit one, if you’re interested: https://wpbiz.dev/bf25/submit/

And here’s our own: https://wpbiz.dev/bf25

https://asia.wordcamp.org/2025/speakers/

I haven’t checked where they are from, but thus far it doesn’t seem they have reached their target of 60% local representation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

I think WordPress’s mission should align with this as part of a broadening of its scope beyond ‘Democratizing Publishing’

Regards,
~ Cory C.

Oh, I agree 100% — I think the more traditional crowdfunding model offers transparency for everyone who buys into the vision. It’s a big risk. I think given Kevin and team’s record and his evangelism and passion I think it’s possible we’ll see something amazing happen. I think his confidence they’ll be able to build that they envision will ultimately be curtailed by WP’s limitations. We’ll see. =)

Fair points. It’s hard to fully understand what the product is when it doesn’t quite exist and the presentation is very much a pitch for funding.

I think a lot of folks in the ecosystem would be able to come up with all kinds of ambitious ideas. Kevin has delivered on a couple of his already (albeit, not as complex projects) so he has credibility.

My angle of this is about the risk people are taking if they purchase a product that is not much more than an idea. There will be factors at play that Kevin and his team cannot control.

Allow me to pitch your product too 🙂 INHO equity crowdfunding would have been a much better model for launching Etch: https://www.ignitiondeck.com/equity-crowdfunding/

Do I think they can pull it off? I don’t think so, not without modifying core but we’ll see if I’m right. I’ve purchased ACSS and Frames. I think that combo with bricks is superb. They can make good products. Can they deliver on Etch? We’ll find out.

Thanks for your comment. I’ve heard similar feedback about Frames and Automatic.css. Two products that I think would have helped me a great deal building this website too, I think 🙂

There is no doubt that all Etch will be discounted post-launch. Perhaps not as heavily as it is now, but it will never be expensive. The market dictates what the price is, for the most.

Now that the announcement livestreams are done and dusted it will be interesting to see how the project progresses.

He failed to mentioned his Frames for Figma in his pitch too. He ‘conveniently’ leaves out too many details for someone to drop over $1k on a guys’ claims. ACSS and Frames are the two easiest points to entry for a web developer: HTML and CSS. And yet he equates that to now he’s going to be able to build a plugin that takes care of page building, cpts, SEO, and all the other dev-related activities from one spot?

Remember: separation of concerns and clear delegation of powers means we can have different spots we have to go to, but at least we know which spot to go to. He wants to combine everything into one …area? This is why a prototype or MVP is needed.

https://wpbiz.dev/news/etch-announcement/