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Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by wakawaka1 »

hpoe wrote: post #2

Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static content, and not be an app development platform do we need another? I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all its problems is fine, if someone is technical and wants more control and customization well really at that point Jekyll is pretty powerful, and if you want fancier you've got Gatsby or w…

This is what I wondered as well.

Given that there are things like:

Contentful, Ghost, Strapi, etc., which either have a REST API for content, and/or other API for customizing the interface for non-devs, or are developer-oriented.

I'm surprised something like this received funding... makes me think, "Snap, I guess I can get funded too?"

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by former_cms_dude »

i used to work in enterprise cms implementations. a couple of thoughts:

- in my experience most cms implementations are handled by a partner or vendor with some expertise. few businesses have the direction/leadership in place to hire a few devs of the intended cms and start hacking away.

- if you are targeting enterprise you need to market to C-level (or slightly below) marketing people, not devs. marketing holds the keys here and any technical people are usually just along for the ride.

- non-cms content (coming from business systems/integrations) will come into play quickly, figure out a simple blueprint to extend the cms object model to account for this.

- though these were enterprise setups they were usually way off the mark by the time we talked to actual system users. think multiserver architecture, requirements to edit the most obscure content that will never be touched after launch, integrations that dont make sense, access to inaccessible data, etc. probably 30% of the time it should've been something simpler like wordpress, netlifyCMS, etc., 30% should have been static content, 20% should have been completely custom and 20% were actually a good fit for the cms.

- set up examples of common site layouts/components and a WYSIWYG implementation for each. non technical users will expect to be able to change EVERYTHING and page templates quickly turn into a mess trying to keep it all together. episerver has a pretty good system for this IMO.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by paulryanrogers »

Scotups wrote: post #13
solidasparagus wrote: post #11

I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a plugin-based, customizable SaaS? Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem to have taken the repo of a completely unrelated Angular animation library that has been inactive for 6 years and converted it to be Tipe, presumably to make it seem as if Tipe has earned 2.1k stars when it was actually the Angular project that earned those st…

yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private release, all of our open source is private on github right now. Once we're not longer in private release, it will be…

> ... we sunsetted that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe.

How common is this?

Seems like fraud to intentionally swap out a project within a repo for something very different to repurpose a reputation metric.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by [deleted] »

Scotups wrote: post #28
masonhensley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.

oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.

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Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by Ericson2314 »

Scotups wrote: post #28
masonhensley wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.

oh, yes, that was one of many mistakes we made early on. As we move to a public release, that is on our list to clean up.

GitHub should tie stars to commit hashes to avoid this sort of crap. Your repos stars is calculated from the started commits that are in this repo but not any it's forked from, on the default branch.

Still prone to abuse from transferring repo to credit somebody else, but the original repo owner would have to sign off on the transfer at least.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by anindha »

Scotups wrote: post #12

Hey HN! I'm Scott Moss, CEO of Tipe (YC W18). We actually just saw that someone posted us on HN. So here to just drop a little bit about Tipe. Tipe is a headless, open-source CMS with a focus on Jamstack apps. Our goal is to have the quickest setup to allow your team to edit, preview, and publish content. We also want to enable you to customize and extend your CMS to fit your team's needs. You can even reuse componen…

Have you currently open sourced the CMS? I couldn't find the source code.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by awad »

hpoe wrote: post #2

Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static content, and not be an app development platform do we need another? I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all its problems is fine, if someone is technical and wants more control and customization well really at that point Jekyll is pretty powerful, and if you want fancier you've got Gatsby or w…

It's not about shortage of tools so much as such a big market that there's always room for more. I'm not really sure where the line is these days of useful new vs developer toy but that's often the case. I think this is a good thing.

I would like to make a plug for Statamic who I have no affiliation with other than being a happy customer that added a bit of customization years ago: https://www.pixlee.com/blog/how-we-allow-anyone-to-make-and-...

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by jameslk »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #37

Can anyone in plain English explain the advantage of JAMstack over the typical nodejs or LAMP stack? All I seem to get is jargon filled press releases from companies with millions of dollars of venture capital.

One offloads a large portion of rendering to the browser where as the other does it mostly on the server. Less processing on the server means less server costs. The former results in an API that can usually be repurposed more easily by other types of clients, such as Android and iOS apps. Also the API can usually be anything that responds to a HTTP request, such as Firebase, PostgREST, or even Airtable's API. Since the rendering is handled in the browser, the frontend can be placed any server that serves up static HTML, CSS, JS and images. Usually this is a CDN.

Of course all these things are really trade-offs. It's arguably much easier just to throw together some PHP and stick it on some LAMP shared hosting if that meets your needs. Or if you're more comfortable with server side languages, you'll be a fish out of water. If you don't know why you would need it, you probably don't.

Re: Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for developers

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Post by ColoradoDev »

masonhensley wrote: post #27
Scotups wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. We didn't intend to post on HN until everything was public. Someone else posted it, so I'm here rolling with it.

I think you are missing the point. Seems questionable to repurpose the repo to leverage the stars regardless of whether you posted it here or someone else did.

It seems like fraud.
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