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I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE)

Details

External ID
46463525
Source
HN
Company
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Product
I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE)
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Jan. 2, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
6
Upvotes percentile
0.2549407114624506
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

I built a minimal opensource CMS, I use it myself for my blog and for other SaaS.l love blogging, and sometimes I post random thoughts on my blog. The only thing is, I always did it with .md files, which is fine tooHowever, I was excited about the idea of using a CMS that was very minimal and avoiding the option of connecting something like WordPress or other big platforms.Open source (if you want to fork it or contribute) and free to use (unless I see you have a million views haha).Star the repo if you like it!

Enrichment

Theme
self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
open-source cms
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes A minimal open-source flat-file or lightweight database CMS for blogging is a quintessential CRUD application easily scaffolded with AI assistants.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Concerns raised: SEO/GEO optimization capabilities, Next.js suitability for SEO/GEO vs alternative frameworks

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 122 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #99 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 65 days after the earliest competitor.

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