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Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by erikpukinskis »

orliesaurus wrote: post #30
pbteja1998 wrote: post #16

I built an entire product just for doing this. https://usenotioncms.com I then used this and built a no-code blogging platform to publish content from Notion https://feather.so There is also an open source version for using Notion as CMS. That can be found at https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

I commend you for building a beautiful tool, and your landing page is great. I personally find the pricing quite expensive. It's a blog. How can it be that expensive to host a blog, especially if you're just getting started? Looking at other options - first one come to mind is Card - that's much more affordable. I am glad you're giving a free trial - that's not a bad deal, at least people can try it before committing…

What is Card? Google isn’t turning anything up for me.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by pbteja1998 »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #41
orliesaurus wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I commend you for building a beautiful tool, and your landing page is great. I personally find the pricing quite expensive. It's a blog. How can it be that expensive to host a blog, especially if you're just getting started? Looking at other options - first one come to mind is Card - that's much more affordable. I am glad you're giving a free trial - that's not a bad deal, at least people can try it before committing…

What is Card? Google isn’t turning anything up for me.

It’s this I think.

https://carrd.co/

But as far as I know, you can’t make blogs with Carrd. It’s only for small one page websites.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by Vvector »

pbteja1998 wrote: post #16

I built an entire product just for doing this. https://usenotioncms.com I then used this and built a no-code blogging platform to publish content from Notion https://feather.so There is also an open source version for using Notion as CMS. That can be found at https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

"Hobby projects can make up to 3000 API calls per month for free."

How many API calls on a page view? One? Many?

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by erikpukinskis »

pbreit wrote: post #28
tluyben2 wrote: post #11

Notion hasn't been great for me; I wanted to like it and we got it for our team, but everyone is struggling when doing anything besides text. I used it for blogging, but currently only to actually write them, not publish because of the below issues. It's drag/upload images really dies when it's more than a few (on fiber, but that's not the point; in 2022 you need to remember what you were doing when uploading somethi…

I've struggled to grok Notion and Coda. What are the killer apps? I'm happy with Google Docs.

Google Docs is owner-visible by default, whereas Notion is organization-visible by default.

Google Docs (until recently?) doesn’t really do links between docs that well.

The slash-based (/) UI in Notion is huge for onboarding. The different content types you can insert are super discoverable compared to Google Docs where you have to dig through the menus.

You can’t fuck with the styles in Notion that much, which prevents people from becoming “format astronauts.”

Notion has an organization-global index (like most wikis) which makes document discovery a bit easier.

Notion has document metadata, which lets you get something like a simple database out of a set of documents. You can have a set of docs with custom fields (due date, point of contact, whatever)

Notion gives you an inbox for notifications when you’re mentioned/stuff gets edited.

Google Docs is catching up on some of this in the last couple years, but IMO they have been sleeping on this space since pretty early in Google Docs development.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by pbteja1998 »

Vvector wrote: post #43
pbteja1998 wrote: post #16

I built an entire product just for doing this. https://usenotioncms.com I then used this and built a no-code blogging platform to publish content from Notion https://feather.so There is also an open source version for using Notion as CMS. That can be found at https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

"Hobby projects can make up to 3000 API calls per month for free." How many API calls on a page view? One? Many?

In useNotionCMS.com, there is no concept of a page view, you just call the api, you get back the html. So it’s per api call, not per page view.

If you are talking about feather.so, it’s a completely different product. In that, the number of page views will be determined based on your Feather plan.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by steveklabnik »

intrasight wrote: post #12

Honest question: Is "headless" still a term of art? With most everything being command-line and APIs, it seems a relic from the past.

It is less usual for CMS systems to have CLIs; they're usually web-based. In this context, it still very much is, yeah.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by FalconSensei »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #27
replygirl wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that day will come after i've saved more time than it takes to move to a different cms. it's possible i already have

Genuine question: why would you need to move to a different cms? If what you’re using works, why change it?

What I see often is that developers would spend way more time building/changing their blogging generator than actually writing posts.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by manuelmoreale »

FalconSensei wrote: post #47
manuelmoreale wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question: why would you need to move to a different cms? If what you’re using works, why change it?

What I see often is that developers would spend way more time building/changing their blogging generator than actually writing posts.

That is my impression as well. Which is fine, don’t get me wrong. Nothing wrong with testing new tools and setups. I just don’t personally see the point of creating something overly complex for a blog.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by the-printer »

FalconSensei wrote: post #47
manuelmoreale wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuine question: why would you need to move to a different cms? If what you’re using works, why change it?

What I see often is that developers would spend way more time building/changing their blogging generator than actually writing posts.

I think that there may be some relationship between what you’re describing and the quality of the blog posts that do actually get written.
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