Building a CMS with CodeIgniter

[eluser]Lone[/eluser]
I fully agree with what you are saying CI Lee and I think for 90% of people on here EE would be a much better way to go then trying to build your own. We have two of us here fulltime working on our own CMS based on CI and have easily racked up 4 weeks almost so far.

It is however financially beneficial for us to build our own as after about 8-10 clients we will break even for the time we have vested into it and the price we sell it at.

The key thing to keep in mind is that we won't resell our CMS to developers (at a cheap price anyways) as it isn't what we are aiming towards with the business, we aim towards selling complete solutions to the end client. We dont have the resources/time to support selling many copies to developers - we leave it to the experts like EllisLabs


@KeyStroke: It has been 100% stable through anything I have put it through so far - if you look at his recent bug fixes they have been very minor.

I wouldn't be concerned if Zach deprecated as it all works now and worst case scenario we can fix any problems ourselves with it. The other advantage is that it is structured exactly the same as CI expect for you have multiple controller/view/model folders - very little of your core code would be wasted.