Peter Knight (@peterrknight)

@Nick
In principle I don’t disagree with any of that. And I don’t think you’re not-nice guys either. And I wouldn’t say it’s about the $ either. Heck, you serve a pretty limited market by focusing just on Canvas users.

I’ve used Site Origin’s plugin and I know it’s a free plugin and I know it’s a single dev who’s poured in what must be 1000+ hours into that particular plugin. And I know it would benefit from having more developers contributing to it, because building a page builder is really hard to do right. It just feels weird to sell a page builder created by someone else, as a page builder.

I get that you are creating real value in extending and optimizing it for canvas, and adding the services. The price is completely justified. But when you advertise its ease of use and the core of the page building experience, you can’t really own that it was your own work, that you developed this experience. All the iteration that went the core of it was done by Site Origin. And if you guys make useful improvements to the codebase, Site Origin’s version doesn’t really benefit, as, I presume, both products now go in two directions. To me it would make more sense if a) it was marketed as an addon of Site Origin’s version, b) you built a better page builder c) you partnered up with Site Origin.

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