We've built up some experience with Bolt CMS and Wordpress but none of those provided an adequate, customisable CMS. After briefly looking into a few CMS possibilities built on top of Symfony, we decided none of these would fit our needs. We were afraid we would spend most of our time writing hacks to make their code work the way we wanted.

So, quite foolishly, we decided to build our own CMS. As most developers experience at some time or other over the course of their careers, we were convinced our idea was great and we would build a revolutionairy new CMS from the ground up.