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Show HN: DatoCMS – Headless CMS for static websites

55 points by steffoz 9y ago

jenius 9y ago
We have been using datocms heavily at my company for a variety of projects, and have been beyond impressed by how robust and well-thought-out the platform is, and how responsive the staff are to bugs and feature requests. I spend a LOT of time evaluating headless CMS' as part of my job, and Dato is a standout option - one that I recommend as a top choice to anyone who asks, and as an inspiration when I speak with reps from other companies building headless cms'. To be clear I am not employed by or have any partnership with dato at all, just a big fan of their work : )
- steffoz 9y ago
  wow. thank you for your kind words jenius, much appreciated :)
- atonse 9y ago
  What are some other headless CMS products? Is that the term? I only know of contentful which looks very similar.
  - steffoz 9y ago
    http://headlesscms.org/ http://headlesscms.org/ can help :)
  - bluefin 9y ago
    There's also https://getdirectus.com/ https://getdirectus.com/ which is not listed below. Haven't personally tried it yet.
prophesi 9y ago
I may give this a spin! I've been using Netlify-CMS for a while, but it's not nearly as full-featured, and seems to have some issues with Metalsmith sites (I've been having difficult getting uploaded files added to the repo).
- fiatjaf 9y ago
  I love the Netlify-CMS approach, but is still too opaque to me. I wanted to get a better understanding of what was going on in the repo, so I wrote https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas
fenwick67 9y ago
This is really slick. I think this paradigm - a CMS that builds out to static files - is really powerful. The notes about speed and scale are spot-on, nothing is reliably faster than just nginx serving flat files. I'm working on a microblog system based on the same basic idea.
gerry_shaw 9y ago
Looks great. Note that the inline demo animations don't work with Mac Safari 11. I had to use Chrome to see them.
- ricemast 9y ago
  If you keep refreshing they sometimes load on Safari!
jazoom 9y ago
This might be important for some: It costs a monthly subscription and doesn't appear to be open source.
- Veratyr 9y ago
  Yeah, this product makes no sense for me as a subscription. Up until the $150 mark there's nothing I see that shouldn't be doable on a standard home desktop machine in a reasonable amount of time. This would make more sense to me as an outright purchase but that model seems to be out these days.
  - artpar 9y ago
    If you are looking for an open-source solution checkout https://github.com/daptin/daptin https://github.com/daptin/daptin ps: i work for this
  - detaro 9y ago
    The core model here seems to be: You as a developer prepare everything so your clients then can use the backend to post to their websites. The cost for DatoCMS is part of what you bill your customer for managing their site. That's not so easy to support with just a desktop machine.
Hendrixer 9y ago
Check out Tipe. https://tipe.io https://tipe.io.

55 points by steffoz 9y ago

We have been using datocms heavily at my company for a variety of projects, and have been beyond impressed by how robust and well-thought-out the platform is, and how responsive the staff are to bugs and feature requests. I spend a LOT of time evaluating headless CMS' as part of my job, and Dato is a standout option - one that I recommend as a top choice to anyone who asks, and as an inspiration when I speak with reps from other companies building headless cms'. To be clear I am not employed by or have any partnership with dato at all, just a big fan of their work : )

steffoz 9y ago
wow. thank you for your kind words jenius, much appreciated :)
atonse 9y ago
What are some other headless CMS products? Is that the term? I only know of contentful which looks very similar.
- steffoz 9y ago
  http://headlesscms.org/ http://headlesscms.org/ can help :)
- bluefin 9y ago
  There's also https://getdirectus.com/ https://getdirectus.com/ which is not listed below. Haven't personally tried it yet.

prophesi 9y ago

I may give this a spin! I've been using Netlify-CMS for a while, but it's not nearly as full-featured, and seems to have some issues with Metalsmith sites (I've been having difficult getting uploaded files added to the repo).

fiatjaf 9y ago
I love the Netlify-CMS approach, but is still too opaque to me. I wanted to get a better understanding of what was going on in the repo, so I wrote https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas https://github.com/fiatjaf/coisas

fenwick67 9y ago

This is really slick. I think this paradigm - a CMS that builds out to static files - is really powerful. The notes about speed and scale are spot-on, nothing is reliably faster than just nginx serving flat files. I'm working on a microblog system based on the same basic idea.

gerry_shaw 9y ago

Looks great. Note that the inline demo animations don't work with Mac Safari 11. I had to use Chrome to see them.

ricemast 9y ago
If you keep refreshing they sometimes load on Safari!

jazoom 9y ago

This might be important for some: It costs a monthly subscription and doesn't appear to be open source.

Veratyr 9y ago
Yeah, this product makes no sense for me as a subscription. Up until the $150 mark there's nothing I see that shouldn't be doable on a standard home desktop machine in a reasonable amount of time. This would make more sense to me as an outright purchase but that model seems to be out these days.
- artpar 9y ago
  If you are looking for an open-source solution checkout https://github.com/daptin/daptin https://github.com/daptin/daptin ps: i work for this
- detaro 9y ago
  The core model here seems to be: You as a developer prepare everything so your clients then can use the backend to post to their websites. The cost for DatoCMS is part of what you bill your customer for managing their site. That's not so easy to support with just a desktop machine.

Hendrixer 9y ago

Check out Tipe. https://tipe.io https://tipe.io.