Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static content, and not be an app development platform do we need another?
I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all its problems is fine, if someone is technical and wants more control and customization well really at that point Jekyll is pretty powerful, and if you want fancier you've got Gatsby or whatever the JS flavor of the month CMS is.
Is there a shortage of tools to allow me to publish a webpage? Is the problem of creating and publishing a website so hard that we need a new entrant to solve the problem? How much more complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS and JS put it on a webserver."?
Hey HN!
I'm Scott Moss, CEO of Tipe (YC W18). We actually just saw that someone posted us on HN. So here to just drop a little bit about Tipe. Tipe is a headless, open-source CMS with a focus on Jamstack apps. Our goal is to have the quickest setup to allow your team to edit, preview, and publish content. We also want to enable you to customize and extend your CMS to fit your team's needs. You can even reuse components you already created in your app to customize tipe. The sky is the limit. We handle the API and infrastructure. We're currently in a Private release and are looking for teams who are using Next.js. If that's you, please sign up!
Can anyone in plain English explain the advantage of JAMstack over the typical nodejs or LAMP stack? All I seem to get is jargon filled press releases from companies with millions of dollars of venture capital.
What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?
I'm sorry for the somewhat unproductive comment, but for anyone else wondering: Their homepage actually has an explainer below the title and the community reviews aren't empty gray blocks. They've just used a font weight of 100, making the text effectively invisible.
Wow, it's quite impressive to raise that much money without a public product. Congrats!
i used to work in enterprise cms implementations. a couple of thoughts:
- in my experience most cms implementations are handled by a partner or vendor with some expertise. few businesses have the direction/leadership in place to hire a few devs of the intended cms and start hacking away.
- if you are targeting enterprise you need to market to C-level (or slightly below) marketing people, not devs. marketing holds the keys here and any technical people are usually just along for the ride.
- non-cms content (coming from business systems/integrations) will come into play quickly, figure out a simple blueprint to extend the cms object model to account for this.
- though these were enterprise setups they were usually way off the mark by the time we talked to actual system users. think multiserver architecture, requirements to edit the most obscure content that will never be touched after launch, integrations that dont make sense, access to inaccessible data, etc. probably 30% of the time it should've been something simpler like wordpress, netlifyCMS, etc., 30% should have been static content, 20% should have been completely custom and 20% were actually a good fit for the cms.
- set up examples of common site layouts/components and a WYSIWYG implementation for each. non technical users will expect to be able to change EVERYTHING and page templates quickly turn into a mess trying to keep it all together. episerver has a pretty good system for this IMO.
> Cloud computing, crawlers, and JavaScript have all approved and come together to enable this shift
Is this a typo?
What about using WordPress instead of raising a seed round?
I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a plugin-based, customizable SaaS?
Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem to have taken the repo of a completely unrelated Angular animation library that has been inactive for 6 years and converted it to be Tipe, presumably to make it seem as if Tipe has earned 2.1k stars when it was actually the Angular project that earned those stars.
They claim to be open-source but I see zero source code. Maybe the source is in one of the two different CLIs that seem to exist? But the one that actually seems documented and usable hasn't had a commit in 10 months.