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I'm in your target market, and in my opinion you have an opportunity to rephrase your tagline "The first open-source Infrastructure-as-Code framework" because your tagline makes me think you're ancient and retro-- think back twenty years or more to Capistrano, Chef, Puppet, etc. as just a few examples.

Just to double-check, here's what Google shows me for your own tagline:

"Chef is an open source infrastructure as code framework, or set of solutions and approaches that helps you automate your infrastructure and applications."

"Terraform is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code framework originally created by HashiCorp"

"Pulumi is an open source Infrastructure-as-Code framework that provisions resources utilizing common programming languages."

etc.

If you're open to adjusting your marketing, I can also suggest you add OpenTofu to your homepage where you currently list Terraform. OpenTofu is more up to date with the open source community especially for IaC. It's a crowded space so aim to highlight your value proposition instead of writing "first".

Just my two cents. Hope this helps.




I don't even think it makes them look ancient, it makes them look odd for claiming that when they clearly are not the first open source IAC framework...

OP, why exactly are you describing yourself as the first one?


Appreciate this feedback, thanks so much for sharing!

The tagline clearly doesn't say what we want here, but the idea is that we are a framework that sits on top of IaC tools like the ones listed above, and makes them easier to use. Under the hood, cnc uses terraform/opentofu to actually manage infra, the cnc layer adds new concepts like environments onto those tools as well as providing a much simpler, higher level configuration with cnc.yml, while still enabling you to edit the templates directly so you're not limited in the infra you can deploy for your app. In this way, we're the first tool of that kind, sort of like a "PaaS in your own cloud" but we expose the plumbing as a CLI.

Thanks again!


What you just said is a lot more descriptive than your website.




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