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Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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Post by swyx »

mmmateo wrote: post #5

Hey HN, it’s been about three years since you sent my open source CMS, Primo, to the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820201 ), inspiring me to quit my cushy remote job at the height of the pandemic to work on it full-time (naive and impulsive, I agree). Life has been pretty interesting since then. I’ve burned through my savings, lost my primo.af domain name to the Taliban, and convinced my wife to…

so, so excited to see you on the front page again Mateo! you're succeeding in an incredibly tough market which takes the full set of founder skills to execute. congrats!

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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Post by mmmateo »

nailer wrote: post #80

> Is Primo open-core? VC-funded open source? Side project? > Primo is under full-time development and is in the process of becoming a nonprofit organization. Any funds generated from White Glove and Cloud will go towards funding further development, in the same vein as Ghost CMS. The above is a stupid answer, it’s open source and MIT licensed: https://github.com/primocms/primo/blob/master/LICENSE

Could you elaborate? Tailwind CSS is MIT but it's still under a for-profit company.

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

#83

Post by mmmateo »

swyx wrote: post #81
mmmateo wrote: post #5

Hey HN, it’s been about three years since you sent my open source CMS, Primo, to the front page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820201 ), inspiring me to quit my cushy remote job at the height of the pandemic to work on it full-time (naive and impulsive, I agree). Life has been pretty interesting since then. I’ve burned through my savings, lost my primo.af domain name to the Taliban, and convinced my wife to…

so, so excited to see you on the front page again Mateo! you're succeeding in an incredibly tough market which takes the full set of founder skills to execute. congrats!

thanks so much swyx!

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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Post by _xivi »

mmmateo wrote: post #70
nobleach wrote: post #62

The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help…

I definitely understand with the struggle to balance design freedom and brand identity (or good design). But wouldn't you still have the issue of content editors wanting to right align text and turn it blue regardless of the CMS you're using?

> But wouldn't you still have the issue of content editors wanting to right align text and turn it blue regardless of the CMS you're using?

OP mentioned the ultimate solution in their comment, it's Headless CMS (provide content) + fully custom frontend.

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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Post by andrei_says_ »

did wrote: post #76
nobleach wrote: post #62

The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help…

Context: I'm the creator an open source page builder in Ruby on Rails named Maglev ( https://www.maglev.dev ), pretty much similar to Primo (congrats for their product, looks amazing!). A couple of months, I used my own tool (Maglev) when revamping an e-commerce site of a client who didn't have a content management system to edit the marketing part of her site. So I sliced the site into editable "Maglev" sections/blo…

Thank you for Maglev - looks awesome

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

#86

Post by nailer »

mmmateo wrote: post #82
nailer wrote: post #80

> Is Primo open-core? VC-funded open source? Side project? > Primo is under full-time development and is in the process of becoming a nonprofit organization. Any funds generated from White Glove and Cloud will go towards funding further development, in the same vein as Ghost CMS. The above is a stupid answer, it’s open source and MIT licensed: https://github.com/primocms/primo/blob/master/LICENSE

Could you elaborate? Tailwind CSS is MIT but it's still under a for-profit company.

Orthogonal. Many open source projects have companies behind them, that doesn’t restrict what you can do with the license.

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

#87

Post by cal85 »

IceWreck wrote: post #13

Huh nice. Looks like it uses Supabase as a backend.

And as a frontend! I mean, I don’t mean this as a dunk, maybe it’s all cool with Supabase, but aesthetically it looks extremely similar, not just a little bit. Is that intentional? Do they encourage sharing their styles or something?

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

#88

Post by mmmateo »

nailer wrote: post #86
mmmateo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate? Tailwind CSS is MIT but it's still under a for-profit company.

Orthogonal. Many open source projects have companies behind them, that doesn’t restrict what you can do with the license.

That's true, but it does communicate something important to companies and individuals looking to use, contribute, or build on the project to say what kind of open source it is, rather than just saying its open-source IMO. Would be interested to hear if you think it could be clarified though.

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

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Post by mmmateo »

cal85 wrote: post #87
IceWreck wrote: post #13

Huh nice. Looks like it uses Supabase as a backend.

And as a frontend! I mean, I don’t mean this as a dunk, maybe it’s all cool with Supabase, but aesthetically it looks extremely similar, not just a little bit. Is that intentional? Do they encourage sharing their styles or something?

haha good point, but no it wasn't intentional. Wanted to replace the hot red & black design I had before with something besides blue.

Re: Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

#90

Post by EspressoGPT »

andybak wrote: post #52

Sigh. I presume SSG = Static Site Generator (Does anyone actually try to write clearly for people who even slightly not keeping up with their specific domain? I do webdev and even I had to think for a moment to decode the acronym)

I think most people who know they need an SSG know what SSG means. But yes, it might be more helpful for users who don't know that yet.
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