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   by sgallant 9y ago

   If you're looking or a CMS for Jekyll (or Hugo) sites, we're developing https://forestry.io A lot of our users are building very high-performant, secure, static sites with these tools.
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   My team is building https://forestry.io for just this purpose (A CMS for static sites) :)
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   Forestry.io | Full-stack developer | REMOTE (must be within Canada) | VISA sponsorship | Full-time Hello HN! Forestry.io is a content management system (CMS) for static websites. We support modern tools like Jekyll, Hugo and more coming so
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   Netlify + Hugo is an pretty amazing combo. If you want to try a different CMS, my team is building https://forestry.io/ . It's a CMS for Hugo and Jekyll sites that commits all changes back to your repo.
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   1) Growth Marketer | Remote | Full-time | Canadian-based 2) Backend Developer | Remote | Full-time (Rails, Go, Docker, Postgres, Redis) 3) Frontend Developer | Remote | Full-time (React, Redux, TypeScript) -------- COMPANY = https:/&#
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   Ask HN: What is your hiring process for developers?

   1 points by sgallant 9y ago|0 comments
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   TLDR; If you care about build times, Hugo. Otherwise, Jekyll. For instance, we had a user who had a Jekyll site with 2000 pages. It took Jekyll about 5 mins to compile/build it. After migrating to Hugo it took < 1 second to build. I
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   Not sure what you mean by "coupled", but we support both Hugo and Jekyll sites.
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   by sgallant 9y ago

   We're building a WordPress-like CMS for Hugo sites. I'm curious if this would improve the Hugo experience for you (commits to your repo, supports media uploads, Markdown, etc). https://forestry.io/ We're roll
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    Co-founder of https://forestry.io here. Forestry.io is a Git-based CMS that commits content changes to your repo (and optionally builds/deploys your site). Contentful is an API-based CMS, that stores your content and requir
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    True, but we if your goal is to have people manage content from mysite.com/admin you can do that since the Forestry CMS is just a single page react application that talks to our API. More info here https://forestry.io/d
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion! #1 is in the works and #2 is in early planning stages.
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    Glad to hear! I'd love to know how we could improv the experience if you have sky feedback
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    Shameless plug: - We built https://forestry.io to get away from WordPress. We support Jekyll & Hugo and a Git-based workflow :)
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    by sgallant 9y ago

    Co-founder of https://forestry.io here. The Canadian regulations were just updated to allow for AngelList funding. A huge win for Canadian startups. More info here: http://betakit.com/angellist-syndicates-finally
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    First AngelList deal in Canada: Forestry.io(betakit.com)

    36 points by sgallant 9y ago|6 comments
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Great post! I started using Hugo instead of WordPress in 2015 and haven't looked back. We grew tired of manually updating sites so we built a CMS (shameless plug). https://forestry.io/ . We're going to be rolling o
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    If you use Jekyll, there's https://staticman.net/ . An open-source solution for static comments.
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    We had the same need and built https://forestry.io ...shameless plug :) A cms for static https://gohugo.io and http://jekyllrb.com/ sites. • Commits to git repo • Deploys to S3 (and other hosts) • Pr
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    We'd love some feedback on a feature we just added to our Jekyll/Hugo CMS. In my WordPress days, I always hated how you couldn't easily customize the UI and everything felt like a hacky work-around. With Front Matter Template
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    Making our Hugo and Jekyll CMS more customizable(forestry.io)

    5 points by sgallant 10y ago|2 comments
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    I love the artwork for your demo site. Where did you get it? https://christophercliff.com/flatmarket/
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Co-founder of https://forestry.io here (a Jekyll and Hugo CMS). We're solving the CMS issue for our users. Just import your Jekyll/Hugo repo. Forestry will automatically generate an index.html file (it's a CMS in
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Co-founder of https://forestry.io here. As an interesting speed comparison, one of our users has a site with 2,000 blog posts that takes Jekyll 10 mins to build. We migrated it to Hugo and the build time went down to 900 ms. We&
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Hey folks, I was building a website for a friend and I REALLY didn't want to use WordPress. I was tired of updating plugins, dealing with hacked sites, paying for expensive hosting, etc. So, my co-founder and I built Forestry.io, a CMS
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    Show HN: Forestry.io – A full CMS for Hugo/Jekyll in a single (React) file(forestry.io)

    34 points by sgallant 10y ago|1 comments
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Co-creator of Forestry here (a CMS for static sites). We're big fans of Hugo and Jekyll (obviously). We use Hugo to power our blog and docs https://forestry.io/blog https://forestry.io/docs . Using Al
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    Incorporating in the US? A Stripe Atlas Walkthrough(deducely.com)

    7 points by sgallant 10y ago|0 comments
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    Yep!
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    by sgallant 10y ago

    You should try Hugo. It's lightning fast.