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Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by mlukaszczyk »

neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

Hey! I'm one of the co-founders of GraphCMS.

We will soon start open sourcing our content management interface, so users have the opportunity to customize the CMS UI to their needs. Most of our customers just want us to take care of the hosting.

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geekjock wrote: post #3
neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

See Directus https://getdirectus.com

Directus is always at the top of self-hosted CMS lists, but one of the reasons I avoid it and other PHP self-hosted headless CMS solutions is due to the difficulties(tech debt) of automating dev environments and CI/CD pipelines across different distros and OSes.

I would have possibly given Directus a spin if it didn't have hard dependencies on the following PHP system extensions: curl, gd, finfo, pdo_mysql and mbstring. Not to go too off topic, but I wish PHP extensions could be installed via Composer and Packagist (similar to how NPM handles native modules).

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by neeksHN »

mlukaszczyk wrote: post #4
neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

Hey! I'm one of the co-founders of GraphCMS. We will soon start open sourcing our content management interface, so users have the opportunity to customize the CMS UI to their needs. Most of our customers just want us to take care of the hosting.

+1, very much looking forward to that Show HN.

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by tcc8 »

mlukaszczyk wrote: post #4
neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

Hey! I'm one of the co-founders of GraphCMS. We will soon start open sourcing our content management interface, so users have the opportunity to customize the CMS UI to their needs. Most of our customers just want us to take care of the hosting.

Can you compare pros/cons to Contentful?

Re: Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS

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Post by gkoberger »

neeksHN wrote: post #2

It'd be rather refreshing if one of the headless CMS PaaS solutions could follow an open model similar to WordPress/Gitlab

It's really, really hard to build an open source (free) product that makes any money. GitLab works because it's a very complex product that a few really large companies are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on it. I can't imagine that being true of a CMS.

That being said, different genres of software have "known" price points. For source control, it's expensive. For analytics, it's expensive. For blogs, it does seem like the open source model is the only one that's really taken off... Wordpress and Ghost both use the model, and (for better or worse) anchored the price point of blogging software somewhere between free and $10/mo. Makes it hard for any incumbents, which is probably why WordPress still is so popular.

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