Launch HN: Webiny (YC W21) – Open-source serverless framework with a drop-in CMS

Thank you for the support! Would love to hear what you think once you try it out, particularly the areas that we should improve.

That's true, and that is the angle we took here. But I also understand that people like to have at least a starting price in mind to know if it's something within their budget or not.

At the moment, the cost for a small site would pretty much be equal to the cost of the Elastisearch service, the only non-serverless component we have. At a minimum that would be ~$25/mo.

We're looking to add plugins for Elasticsearch so you can replace it with something like Algolia making the whole thing 100% serverless. In that case, the cost would be zero, as it would be 100% under the AWS free tier. Once the free tier expires, the cost would probably be in cents. Have a look at our performance benchmark reports, we've noted down the cost of each test in detail for each of the AWS services: https://docs.webiny.com/docs/webiny-overview/performance-ben...

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. It’ll be interesting if you show some kind of a product roadmap.

Maybe there is a product already out there that does that, but it’ll be useful if google sheet can work in conjunction with your CMS.

Webiny is definitely not for everyone; it does have specific technologies engraved in the offering, like nodejs, React and GraphQL. That, however, doesn't mean you can't build a REST API with it. Webiny is first of all a development framework, to help you develop apps for serverless infrastructure. It's very flexible, and we're already working on more things that will make it even more adaptable to different technologies. Then on top of that we built the Headless CMS, the Page Builder, etc. to showcase the possibilities of both the framework and serverless services, as many developers are still hesitating to use them.

The features we built into our apps and framework are directly taken from our own experience (we used to run a digital agency for 10 years), user feedback and many hours of calls with other agencies and enterprises. We do love user feedback as we can't possibly foresee all the possible use-cases - and that's how we improve our platform.

If you don't use GraphQL or DynamoDB - that's perfectly fine. There will always be problems that are easier to solve without bringing a full featured framework into the mix. We also like to spawn a Lambda or two with some simple code for simple solutions. But for larger projects, we offer project organization, workflows, infrastructure organization, system of plugins, and ready-made apps which can really save you a lot of development time.

Regarding other CMS's - yes there are many. But not many that are open-source and running in a serverless environment. SaaS solutions are not acceptable for every type of customer, especially not enterprises. They want to have their data in their own private cloud.