Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
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Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#2Real 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."?
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#3I'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.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#4Real 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 w…
One of Sitecore's sells (.NET CMS) is non-technical users can manage content and control the layout of the page WYSIWYG style. Developers still work on it, but it's less about app and page development and more about component and tools development.
The key is allowing non-technical folks to work without much training. I don't think anyone has found the right balance yet.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#5Real 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 w…
Gatsby and Jekyll are technical tools. The audience of a CMS and the audience of a command line program to consume a file system directory of yaml are different people.
Additionally, something like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea is at the minimum required to even make that existing pain-in-the-ass workflow work.
Try updating your jekyll site from your phone without using GitHub, for example.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#6Real 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 w…
It's often a requirement that non-devs be able to edit the website. WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking, or if you can afford to pay Wordfence $99/mo and take the time to make it reasonably performant.
Gatsby is not a CMS. It would be very nice to have a well-designed and supported CMS that is actually secure and efficient by default.
> How much more complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS and JS put it on a webserver."?
My favorite so far is the combination of WordPress and Gatsby in such a way that you get the worst of both worlds. E.g. building a single page requires creating 10-20 posts in WP, with zero ability to see what changes will look like without actually deploying the site. All this complexity instead of just setting rel="preload".
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#7Wow, it's quite impressive to raise that much money without a public product. Congrats!
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#8Real 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 w…
It's often a requirement that non-devs be able to edit the website. WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking, or if you can afford to pay Wordfence $99/mo and take the time to make it reasonably performant. Gatsby is not a CMS. It would be very nice to have a well-designed and supported CMS that is actually secure and efficient by default. > How much more complicat…
Totally agreed. There is room for something better. More modern than foundations than Wordpress without going too far into the JavaScript black hole.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#9What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#10I'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.
Hmm, for me the text is almost white on almost black making for a lot of contrast and very easy to read from desktop Firefox.