Using ".af", the top-level domain for Afghanistan, so your domain is pronounced "primo dot A.F." is a little on the nose.
Ouch! Why all the downvotes?
.af (as fuck), pronounced "ah-foo" is cool af sounding tld.
Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
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Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#112Hi HN. primo is an IDECMSCLSSG (short for IDE, CMS, Component Library, Static Site Generator) I’ve been working on for a few months. The idea came from wanting to host a Notion page at a domain name and not being able to. Once I made the initial version - a basic text editor - the rest of the features just came naturally (except for the SSG, which came from not wanting to deal with hosting). I’d written off freelance…
This is really impressive! I think there is a big market for Wordpress replacements.
There is a huuuuge market for WordPress replacements, since WP runs 1/3rd of Internet sites and almost 2/3rds of CMS sites.
Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#113Hi HN. primo is an IDECMSCLSSG (short for IDE, CMS, Component Library, Static Site Generator) I’ve been working on for a few months. The idea came from wanting to host a Notion page at a domain name and not being able to. Once I made the initial version - a basic text editor - the rest of the features just came naturally (except for the SSG, which came from not wanting to deal with hosting). I’d written off freelance…
Free, but why do I need to login with GitHub to even try it?
Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#114In terms of connecting to data sources I would rather decouple the querying and security layer. Companies are going to be focusing more and more on integrations. So if we have an integration layer in rest or graphql it would make building complex rich apps a much nicer experience. Basically what you have here is a competitor of many dashboarding tools like Tableau or PowerBI. I know you are thinking wordpress and cms…
That's a great point I hadn't considered, thank you.
Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
This feels like such a ludicrous concept, but also I love it. I've recently fallen back into the world of building static marketing sites and the tooling is now so sophisticated, cheap and undifferentiated. We're solving the same problem over and over in very similar ways. I generally despise all-in-one solutions, but this use case actually makes a lot of sense at this point.
I don't know about ludicrous — this is essentially the same USP you get from Squarespace, Wix, etc., but just without the "and we host the resulting site for you" part. In trade for not doing the hosting, it becomes just a native app you can own, rather than a subscription service. Just need a commodity web host to slap it up on.
I'm not sure I'd say the SSG is the only difference. Squarespace et al target non-technical users directly, so most of the code is abstracted away (which makes anything outside of the rails virtually impossible to edit). primo is first and foremost about enabling developers to build a static site without having to do the Tailwind/PostCSS/etc. setup while also getting a CMS so they can hand it off to a non-technical user.
Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#116Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#117I imagine this is similar in concept to Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, etc? As in, a tool to build a custom static website with easily editable content. Since this needs a lot of code to actually create a site, why not create a CMS instead that can be connected through an API to a SSG?
You could say it's similar, but only insofar as WordPress+Timber is also similar (i.e. coding a custom site for end users to easily edit content).
I'm not sure I understand your second question, but I believe lots of those already exist, and it made more sense for my use-case to just build the site directly from primo.
Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#118I made something similar when I was looking for an alternative to Shopify component based template CMS for the company I was working for at the time. It's a very good compromise between developer flexibility and marketer accessibility. Congrats!
Thanks! Would love to hear any neat ideas you came across if you're up for it
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#119Re: Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator
#120In Firefox I just get a blank page where I assume there should be an editor. There's a toolbar at the top but none of the buttons do anything, and in the console there's the error:
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: e is undefined Ng _User.svelte:34