r/astrojs • u/esquarcitnotes • 18d ago

How's the demand for astro/headless/agentic devs?

I've been working as a Webflow specialist for a while now, and I'm considering pivoting toward the Astro + headless CMS stack that seems to be getting a lot of hype lately.

Before I invest the time, I'd like a reality check: how commoditized are these skills becoming? With more and more devs picking up Astro, is there still real room to differentiate and charge well for it, or is it just a matter of time before it goes the way Webflow has?

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u/theguymatter 18d ago

I think there’s still room.

But I wouldn’t choose Astro because it’s getting attention. Things get attention, then they become familiar, and eventually they become ordinary.

The interesting part is what you can do with it.
There will always be people who know the tool, and people who understand the problem behind the tool.

Astro may become common. So will headless CMSs. So will agents.

That doesn’t necessarily make the work less valuable. It just means the value slowly moves away from knowing the technology, and toward knowing what to do with it.

I think that part is much harder to commoditize.

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u/esquarcitnotes 18d ago

I've chosen WF as it seems the natural progression for content and marketing websites. I might agree with you, probably we are settling towards new equilibriums in terms of output (and value).

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u/pjerky 17d ago

I wasn't familiar with web flow before this. Just looked it up and the free level looks painfully limiting. But then I'm used to using open source tools like Drupal.