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Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by pbteja1998 »

ryanisnan wrote: post #60
pbteja1998 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I get this feedback about pricing sometimes. It's $15/month, but you can create any number of blogs with it. Not just a single blog. There are people paying for it, so yeah, I think it is appealing enough for some people. I especially get no coders as my customers. They can just whip up a page on Notion, and then instantly publish it to their blog. They get all the analytics, seo optimization, search and many…

There's only so many people who have a valid use-case for having multiple blogs. The limiting factor to getting good content out to lots of people isn't how many blogs they have, it's how many good articles they can write and in how long of a timespan.

Yeah, I agree with you. In fact, 95% of my customers have only one blog.

Ability to create multiple blogs is a feature, not the whole value prop of Feather.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by Dwolb »

erulabs wrote: post #56

I’m sure I’m just getting old and this is really neat and useful - but it’s such a shame that everything is now just several SaaSs tapped together. Notion, Retool, Zapier, Google workspaces… I understand the productivity gains, but it points to me at a fundamental failure of technology. We’re all drowning in tech debt and it’s not getting better and most startups spend half their efforts avoiding paying enterprise li…

Thought experiment:

What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by ajgrover »

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…

That price is squarely in the realm of other popular similar products like Squarespace. Most likely not targeted at people who have the skills and time to figure out how to self-host.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by 9dev »

Dwolb wrote: post #62
erulabs wrote: post #56

I’m sure I’m just getting old and this is really neat and useful - but it’s such a shame that everything is now just several SaaSs tapped together. Notion, Retool, Zapier, Google workspaces… I understand the productivity gains, but it points to me at a fundamental failure of technology. We’re all drowning in tech debt and it’s not getting better and most startups spend half their efforts avoiding paying enterprise li…

Thought experiment: What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?

Isn’t that Zapier in a nutshell?

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by snird »

This is so risky.

HN like to talk about how risky it is to use Google products as they will shut down - but this is 10 times riskier.

You depend on a closed system, with no guarantees, for a usage it was not originally designed for. Notion itself can still be alive, but change some feature to kill this usage. Not even intentionally.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by Erazal »

aquent wrote: post #65

We are building Notice at https://notice.studio The exact goal is to have a Notion-like experience combined with a headless CMS, but in one product. Btw the way we are applying to this YC batch!

How customisable will be the content served with the headless CMS?

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by aquent »

Erazal wrote: post #67
aquent wrote: post #65

We are building Notice at https://notice.studio The exact goal is to have a Notion-like experience combined with a headless CMS, but in one product. Btw the way we are applying to this YC batch!

How customisable will be the content served with the headless CMS?

100% customizable the API serves you a raw JSON with some useful metadata (formatted json-ld, ...)

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by joelrosen27 »

shanecleveland wrote: post #34
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 use usenotioncms.com to fetch Notion pages for https://notion2embed.com . I personally use it to embed Notion blocks/pages on static sites. They are already nicely styled and simple to update. Just and MVP at the moment, but it works for me, and I plan on improving it over time. Will be great for roadmaps, FAQs, "meet the team" galleries, etc.

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