What about using WordPress instead of raising a seed round?
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
#22I 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…
Seems... questionable
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#23Real 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…
> WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking
Unfortunately all sites are worth hacking to host phish kits (fake login pages for phishing), and hosting one will get your website added to browser warn lists and flagged by search engines. There seem to be automated bots scanning for vulnerable WordPress sites so it's possible to become a target without much attention from the attacker.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Seems... questionable
I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#25> Cloud computing, crawlers, and JavaScript have all approved and come together to enable this shift
Is this a typo?
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#26Earlier 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…
> WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking Unfortunately all sites are worth hacking to host phish kits (fake login pages for phishing), and hosting one will get your website added to browser warn lists and flagged by search engines. There seem to be automated bots scanning for vulnerable WordPress sites so it's possible to become a target without much attention fr…
This is true, but I would hope that readers here know enough to at least keep WordPress up-to-date. Most attacks target old exploits. There are millions of small WordPress sites that may never get hacked if they stay updated. If you become big enough, however, you become a much more likely target for zero-days. In that case, you probably don't want to be running WordPress any more than you want to be running Windows.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems... questionable
I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
I think you are missing the point.
Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.
I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.
oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#29> Cloud computing, crawlers, and JavaScript have all approved and come together to enable this shift Is this a typo?
no, but hearing it here it sounds so jargony! I don't like it and I wrote it. I'll do another pass, thanks.
Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers
#30Real 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.
I am certified with Sitecore 6.5, However I haven't worked with it regularly in over 4 yeras so things have probably have changed (I've heard Sitecore 9 is very different than 6-8).
One of the problems with the WYSIWYG editor was that the developer effort typically added and extra 50% effort onto any task and like anything with Sitecore you ended up having to dig through PDFs on their development portal.
A slight aside though. One of the best things about Sitecore was its OOP approach to content. Every piece of content was an instance of a template. If you knew what you were doing with it you could build things very cleanly. I haven't seen anyone else implement anything similar in their CMS.