[magicalhippo]

Clearly this is meant for bigger teams than we have at work. I've never heard the term "copy" being used this way before, nor do we have a separate design team (we wear a lot of hats).

I'm curious though, given that such a system clearly would be quite integral to the product development, how would enterprises be comfortable with this as an off-premise SaaS? Like, what if Ditto gets bought next year by Google and killed off 6 months later?

Our software is also an integral part for our customers, and while most of our smaller customers are fine with our cloud solution, all the bigger customers want on-premise installations with full source-code in escrow.

[jessouyang]

Although we do think we play an integral part in the product development process, if teams switched off Ditto, they wouldn't be any worse-off than they were before. The text would still exist in their mockups, and their apps can continue to serve the structured JSONs of text that we generate. Because we aren't a CDN, they aren't dependent on us to actually serve that text.

However, we do hope to have an on-prem offering for enterprise customers in the future, especially those with tighter security constraints!

[vore]

Re usage of "copy": if you've heard the term "copy editing", it's within the same ballpark.

[magicalhippo]

I've somehow dodged that one too. Not being a native speaker is probably related. Thanks though, now it makes more sense.