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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

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Post by solidasparagus »

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.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

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!

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

solidasparagus wrote: post #11

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 st…

yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private release, all of our open source is private on github right now. Once we're not longer in private release, it will be public.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

davidlumley wrote: post #9

What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?

Here are just a few things:

1. Our frontend editor, where you edit content, is open-source. You can add new field types with react components easily. 2. The editor is also mounted on your site and lives there wherever you want. So, yousite.com/cms. We handle auth as well. 3. You define your schema in your code, like a DB schema, instead of in a GUI. Your schema lives in git with your app. 4. You can get started completely from the CLI, never touching a web app. 5. You can extend your schemas with plugins from the community. 6. We give your features like content previews right out the box with no code setup.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

jorams wrote: post #3

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.

thanks for that, just pushed a fix

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

willio58 wrote: post #8
john-shaffer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We agree as well. Thats why we made tipe. We are focused on deeper, low code / no code integrations with frameworks that still allow fluid customizations.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Scotups »

vsareto wrote: post #4
hpoe wrote: post #2

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 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.

With tipe, this is possible. You as a developer have complete control over what non technical people can edit. From layouts to actual text on a page. You opt into what you want to be dynamic. Snd with our instant preview feature, your team can see their changes fast.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by jmvoodoo »

Scotups wrote: post #12

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 componen…

Hi Scott,

I'm not in this industry anymore but used to work for a company that provides CMS to fortune 500s. A significant portion of our customers used angular (not angularjs). Are you planning on supporting that as well or remaining react focused?

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by jorams »

Scotups wrote: post #15
jorams wrote: post #3

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.

thanks for that, just pushed a fix

Great, thanks! Very readable now.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

#20

Post by Scotups »

jmvoodoo wrote: post #18
Scotups wrote: post #12

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 componen…

Hi Scott, I'm not in this industry anymore but used to work for a company that provides CMS to fortune 500s. A significant portion of our customers used angular (not angularjs). Are you planning on supporting that as well or remaining react focused?

Absolutely, my career started with Angular and my co-founder created Angular Universal. We have big plans with Angular. You can actually use Tipe with any framework or platform, we're just focusing on our deep integrations one framework at a time for now it get it magical.
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