Using these methods, we still miss the deadlines most of the times so what could be the way to launch the quality product in the market in quick time? Using defacto platforms like Wordpress, Socialengine, Magento, helps to launch your product on time. You can launch the minimum viable product (MVP) in weeks time using one of the platforms rather than waiting for months to launch it. Here are list of platforms that we use for our clients:
| Type of website | Platforms |
|---|---|
| Online communities | SocialEngine, Buddypress |
| eBay like Marketplace | Magento, Woocommerce |
| Learning and courses | Moodle |
| Project Management | WordPress with plugins |
We have been using these platforms for our clients for a long time and have launched their ideas or visions in a few weeks. This approach helps them to cut the initial costing and actually test the water in the market. Normally the quick launch of the product is cost-effective and allows you to raise funds from investors or who knows a big company aquire your product. Need to know more about it then take a look at our success stories here.
In this article, We shall discuss the reasons to build your website using platform over custom development
10 Reasons To Build Your Website Using Platform Over Customization
Imagine you need to launch a little complex website like freelancing marketplace. You can do it by hiring a development team. The team must install the freelancing plugin and you are ready with your website. They may install a different theme so that the website looks clean and professional.
We had launched a freelancing website (based on Wordpress) in three days for our client as the minimum viable product. Using this demo, our client had shown a running version of the website to investors and got the funding. Now we have started working on the details requirements and hope to launch it soon.
you can launch the website in a couple of weeks using platform while it may take months with custom development
With the right infrastructure, services, and resources, these platforms are highly scalable. These platforms can serve tens of thousands of logged-in users at a time and deliver hundreds of millions of monthly page views. So you need not worry if your website should be able to handle the user traffic load.
One of the clients has a social networking website for bikers based on a stable platform SocialEngine. The traffic on the website is huge and has been handled well using the AWS hosting. If we would develop the website from scratch then it would have cost him multiple times to have the same the scalability. So using SocialEngine, Client not only saves the cost but also able to launch a website which can handle loads of thousands of users.Responsive Web design is the approach that suggests that design and development should respond to the user's behavior and environment based on screen size, platform, and orientation. Most of these platforms are built on responsive web design i.e. the website looks good on every device.
Google is penalizing sites that aren’t mobile-friendly by ranking them lower on their result pages. With these platforms, you don’t have to overhaul your entire site to make it accessible on tablets and smartphones, since most themes are automatically responsive.These platforms integrate with everything (near enough). If there’s a service you’d like to integrate with your website, chances are there will be a plugin, or at the least an easy to use API.
For example, here are some of the most popular services that integrate with your website:
We created a corporate website for one of the clients using WordPress in quick time. We found lots of plugins in Wordpress which met the requirements of our client e.g. They want a newsletter feature to send out to their subscribers so we used a MailChimp plugin for it. The integration was done in less than an hour. The client also wanted integration with the Salesforce's marketing automation tool pardot and as we expected there was already the plugin for it. So you can imagine how powerful a platform can be in terms of adding third-party services to your website.
If you are looking for building your own social network then we recommend using SocialEngine. The other options to networking website like Buddypress, phpfox or oxwall. But we recommend Socialengine due to a stability, plethora of third-party plugins and themes.
If you are looking for building your own eCommerce store then we recommend using Magento or Woocommerce. You can have an online store ready in a few days after spending nominal cost(sometimes less than $100).
If you are thinking of launching business websites, freelancing marketplace and beyond then you can use Wordpress for it.
Want to launch your product on time in the market? Feel free to contact us and we can guide you.
