Show HN: DatoCMS – Headless CMS for static websites

[jenius]

We have been using datocms heavily at my company for a variety of projects, and have been beyond impressed by how robust and well-thought-out the platform is, and how responsive the staff are to bugs and feature requests. I spend a LOT of time evaluating headless CMS' as part of my job, and Dato is a standout option - one that I recommend as a top choice to anyone who asks, and as an inspiration when I speak with reps from other companies building headless cms'. To be clear I am not employed by or have any partnership with dato at all, just a big fan of their work : )

[atonse]

What are some other headless CMS products? Is that the term?

I only know of contentful which looks very similar.

[steffoz]

wow. thank you for your kind words jenius, much appreciated :)

[jazoom]

This might be important for some:

It costs a monthly subscription and doesn't appear to be open source.

[Veratyr]

Yeah, this product makes no sense for me as a subscription.

Up until the $150 mark there's nothing I see that shouldn't be doable on a standard home desktop machine in a reasonable amount of time.

This would make more sense to me as an outright purchase but that model seems to be out these days.

[prophesi]

I may give this a spin! I've been using Netlify-CMS for a while, but it's not nearly as full-featured, and seems to have some issues with Metalsmith sites (I've been having difficult getting uploaded files added to the repo).

[fiatjaf]

I love the Netlify-CMS approach, but is still too opaque to me. I wanted to get a better understanding of what was going on in the repo, so I wrote https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas

[fenwick67]

This is really slick.

I think this paradigm - a CMS that builds out to static files - is really powerful. The notes about speed and scale are spot-on, nothing is reliably faster than just nginx serving flat files.

I'm working on a microblog system based on the same basic idea.

[gerry_shaw]

Looks great. Note that the inline demo animations don't work with Mac Safari 11. I had to use Chrome to see them.

[ricemast]

If you keep refreshing they sometimes load on Safari!

[Hendrixer]

Check out Tipe. https://tipe.io.