| Absolutely not, assuming they could use either SquareSpace or Shopify and get 100% of the features they need. I specifically left out WordPress, which is an absolute nightmare to maintain. I recently inherited 9 WordPress sites, some of which should've just been static sites, and they are a mess of plugin spaghetti and hidden code. Avoid WordPress for new projects. There are plenty of alternatives that aren't ground-up custom builds. > average cost to implement headless architecture for enterprise business is $2.6 million This needs a lot of context. The likely scenario is that these enterprises are converting a lot of existing sites. For a brand new site, getting started with a headless CMS is not a lot slower than WordPress anymore. > Interested to hear other peoples' experience with using a headless CMS for small business clients and thoughts on opportunities for the future? We're starting to switch to Strapi for our CMS and Svelte as our client. Existing sites were reasonably well-built on WordPress (Oxygen or Elementor). It has been a breath of fresh air. It's amazing to be able to fully use git again. Multiple devs can work on the same file without stepping on each other's toes. Headless CMS is much closer to using WordPress than to building things from scratch, which I think people don't realize. We've been able to on-board clients onto it very easily. |