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I'm one of the creators of BestofThemes and would love to answer any questions that you may have about it. We have created numerous projects over years and we had…",{"value":55,"source":56,"evidence":57},"People choosing themes for new websites or client projects, and theme authors","commenter",[58],{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"12878545","You have touched the point that made this project more than just another curated list of themes website built on wordpress and required a full team of top engineers and…",{"value":62,"source":49,"evidence":63},"Creators had the same problem finding themes for their own products",[64],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[],"unknown","beta","team",{"praise":70,"objections":94,"requests":120,"questions":150,"alternatives":164},[71,86],{"value":72,"source":56,"evidence":73},"Screenshots of full pages and mobile views make browsing easy",[74,78,82],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"12876521","supersan","It's pretty good way to browse actually. 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