Looks great! I've been looking to avoid rolling my own admin for my hobby project, which is mongo based, and very much driven on certain db schemas and collections. Adding CRUD and simple admin views to the mongodb will go a really long way, and the flex to throw in some react sounds great. Glad i found this!
Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers
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#62Looks great! I've been looking to avoid rolling my own admin for my hobby project, which is mongo based, and very much driven on certain db schemas and collections. Adding CRUD and simple admin views to the mongodb will go a really long way, and the flex to throw in some react sounds great. Glad i found this!
Awesome, sounds like the perfect fit for your project!
Re: Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers
#63Great writeup; bookmarked, will revisit soon.
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#64> Imagine you're going to build a new SaaS app. Would you think of building it on a headless CMS? I'm guessing this mostly makes sense for a SaaS that's mostly about serving content to users. I wonder how common that kind of SaaS is, as opposed to a SaaS where the core functionality wouldn't be served well by a CMS, and the administrative tedium that one wants to alleviate mostly has to do with account management, pa…
The point here is that it isn't just a tool for content. The way I see things, there is no useful distinction between content and any other kind of data. Payload makes it trivial to set up custom data structures and manage it.
The tedium of development in my experience is building CRUD—whether it is for a SaaS app or anything else. When you're rolling a project using a framework you've got to set up a database, write the API logic and build an admin UI to manage that data. It is complicated and time consuming work even with a great framework. To be able to skip all that is a massive advantage.
I personally would not build a SaaS app on Wordpress and ACF, but I would use Payload to build just about any custom business app.
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#65This looks great! We use Strapi for our marketing site at https://articleasset.com and have been bitten by the lack of conditional logic before.
Is there any plan to support serverless deployment? We use Nextjs with incremental static regeneration, so will only need to query the cms service a couple times a day.
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#66Congrats on the launch! Great to see more forward-thinking CMS solutions hitting the market.
We've been using Statamic[1] (built on Laravel) which is also a package that's sits atop the framework so you can build your app how you like and side-load CMS features.
It also features an API. The whole platform is steadily improving despite being a small bootstrapped team behind it.
If you're looking for something like Payload but for Laravel, give Statamic a go!
[1]: https://statamic.com
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#67You should try to get listed on awesome-cms [1] list now too, since you're out with public release. That was the first place I checked for options last time I needed to find a headless CMS.
Re: Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers
#68Congrats on the launch! Great to see more forward-thinking CMS solutions hitting the market. We've been using Statamic[1] (built on Laravel) which is also a package that's sits atop the framework so you can build your app how you like and side-load CMS features. It also features an API. The whole platform is steadily improving despite being a small bootstrapped team behind it. If you're looking for something like Pay…
I've heard good things about statamic also. How do you feel about their pricing model?
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#69You should try to get listed on awesome-cms [1] list now too, since you're out with public release. That was the first place I checked for options last time I needed to find a headless CMS. [1] https://github.com/postlight/awesome-cms
Absolutely! Thanks for linking this.
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#70Hi James,
I'm really excited about V1 release of Payload, as well as the open sourcing of the project. I've wanted to use it in a project for a while and this news is definitely going to push me over the edge. I'm a huge fan of the typescript first approach, as well as local mode, and the thought that went into adding custom blocks and components.