Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation
I am exploring options for a headless CMS for a community website where a non technical admin will post details about events in the community like a meeting or volunteering done by the community. They don't have funding. What is the cheapest option out there?
There are plenty available: https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/ Keystone mb?
You may also want to check things like Appwrite for hosted solution (free plan available) or PocketBase for self-hosting on any VPS (fly.io does not charge below 5$). Those are more developer-focused, but also should be much less restrictive.
Have no real experience with any of them.
We recently landed on Strapi. There’s an open source version but we use the hosted one (for now). All in all good. There are a few quirks in the UI (sometimes smaller changes weren’t saved - although this might be a user issue from my side) and the markdown editor could be more user friendly.
We are sticking with it for now because it’s indeed good enough and I haven’t found any better options (give the price).
IIRC Strapi is a great option for green field projects. C/p from their docs:
"Strapi applications are not meant to be connected to a pre-existing database, not created by a Strapi application, nor connected to a Strapi v3 database. The Strapi team will not support such attempts. Attempting to connect to an unsupported database may, and most likely will, result in lost data."
Unfortunately, most of the time I do not have such luxury. What are the CMS options for pre-existing databases?