alt Hacker News> Running a consultancy and building various client projects highlights this challenge. Everyone wants to focus on the core, valuable features, but must also deal with relatively boring, commodity problems that have been solved countless times before. This often means reinventing the wheel, which clients understandably see as low-value work.
So wordpress or prestashop should be enough for 95% of your needs if you're a consultancy.
Absolutely, if your customers want websites or ecommerce shops, then that's totally true.
The context here is that Alembic builds custom business applications where these problems have not typically been solved before. We want to spend most of our development time on the core business problem not rebuilding things like Content management systems or Ecommerce shopfronts.