Funding eMazeMe:
We didn’t get much into funding, but from what I could gather so far eMazeMe is a lot of other start-ups: bootstrapped (ie: self-funded.)
Technology backend:
This is what interested me the most. We here at Chykalophia Group are primarily nerds and the details always interest us, of course we’ll dig deep into details!
When I first saw the eMazeMe url structure, I was a bit confused by some of their non-seo like link structure. Since I’ve been doing SEO in this (Chykalophia Group) company for a while, it puzzled me. It seemed almost like some Django structure during development, but all the files ended with .PHP so it clearly wasn’t Django/Python.
So the first thing I asked Chris during our lunch meeting was: “What was eMazeMe built on? Is it a fully custom job or was it built on a platform?” I was kind of shocked by the answer.
Chris said, “it’s build on the Joombla platform.” Huh … who knew it could be customized that much. But after I thought about it for a while, it makes sense. Doing so cuts down on costs and has many features built in that would otherwise have had to be custom made. Saves time and money! Woot!
Just like most of the sites that we build here at Chykalophia Group are built on WordPress, theirs is built on Joomla for similar reasons.
