Cloudflare Buy Astro — Is Webflow Next?

continuing the trend of buying companies, buying open-source companies because these open- source companies, their model for for monetary and financial support is kind of dying because of AI in true fashion where the ones that are surviving, they are often owned by bigger organizations and consumer big organizations. Well, Astro are no exception to that where Cloudflare have just acquired Astro. Now, if you don't know what Astro is, Astro is another React framework for developing serverside rendered websites. It's a competitor to Next. Astro is a another option there. And in fact, they've got some really nice uh alternative features that Next.js don't. They both serve a different purpose. Yeah, Astra is great for like contentheavy websites, websites that need to load fast, perform well, um be great for, you know, search engines and being able to be indexed, things like this. Um, Astro has been great and this is why also Web Flow chose Astro as their underlying um, technology I believe especially when it comes to building with AI, web flow and all of it will be with Astro and now Cloudflare owns Astro and also Webflow has a really tight uh, relationship growing relationship with Cloudflare which makes me think if they would ever make the move on Web Flow as well and potentially buy Web Flow. I h I have no information on this, but I it wouldn't surprise me. So, Web Flow did support um Astro with 200,000, which is funny enough pays for like one developer, but you know, um it's crazy how much this how much this stuff costs, which is why they find it hard to support, but they are mentioned here. Look, and also Web Flow have been demonstrating a very close relationship with Cloudflare. For better or worse, they've been going down a couple of times whenever Cloudflare goes down and Cloudflare have had a few, you know, hiccups recently. They use K2 storage, which is um yeah, just key value storage. They We flow use a lot of Cloudflare's products. So, there's this incestuous little circle that's going on. So, it'll be interesting to see how this affects, you know, um Webflow. I don't think it will. I just think it just tightens that grip to be honest. I don't I can't see this as being a bad thing. I don't think this is going to be a good thing. I think it's only good really for Astro because they're going to get that continued financial support from Cloudflare who are just huge at this point. Um, and a very very good company. There was also this image uh from Cloudflare that Web Flow is the second uh most used CMS on Cloudflare after WordPress. And we see Wix here with 1%, frameware sites 2%, Web Flow 15 and WordPress dominating as always uh with 41%. But this is quite surprising like this is bigger than Adob Experience Manager. Most people have not heard of this. That's crazy. This is big. Like this is big. Cloudflare very very enterprise friendly, right? Cloudflare very enterprise friendly. Yeah. Adobe Experience Manager are very enterprise friendly. So it's crazy how those are flipped. Yeah. So hats off to Framer. They're doing all right. Yeah. So that's why I'm saying like I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be acquired by uh Cloudflare because Cloudflare is like what 60 70 80 billion I don't know we uh it's something like that their valuation and web flow the latest in 2019 I believe was like 4 billion so potentially this is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week we discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web.