Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers
Hey HN, my name is James and I founded Payload ( https://payloadcms.com/ ) with two close colleagues, Dan and Elliot. We're a dev-first headless CMS [1] that's half app framework and half CMS—we're closing the gap between the two. You can check out our demo here: https://demo.payloadcms.com . Imagine you're going to build a new SaaS app. Would you think of building it on a headless CMS? Probably not. To devs, "content management system" is usually a swear word. If a team of engineers gets assigned a CMS project, it's less than thrilling. Engineers want to avoid roadblocks, write code, and build things they're proud of—but existing CMS's get in the way of that left and right with their third-party integrations, point-and-click schema designers, code generation, etc. Rather, you'd build your backend on an app framew
Why it failed
Hey HN, my name is James and I founded Payload ( https://payloadcms.com/ ) with two close colleagues, Dan and Elliot. We're a dev-first headless CMS [1] that's half app framework and half CMS—we're closing the gap between the two. You can check out o
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- sneek_
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews