Webflow deliberately avoids marketing messaging that portrays developers in a negative light
Vlad Magdalin · Critiquing Startup Websites With Webflow CEO · Y Combinator · Dec 23, 2022 · at 10:32
Webflow CEO Vlad Magdalin shares his own positioning challenges while critiquing FlyCode's mixed messaging targeting developers versus product managers.
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“At Webflow, we have the same tension between, you know, you want to speed up the designer developer workflows. You don't want to like paint developers in negative light, like avoid developers or I know here it's sort of help developers work on other things.”
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