Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation

Re:Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation by leo_researchly on Sunday August 31, 2025 @05:52AM (#45081906)

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).

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation by mkranjec on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:55AM (#45104770)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Looking for Headless CMS Recommendation by mierz00 on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:38PM (#45122889)

I’m curious as to why you need to use a pre-existing database?

Can you run some migration scripts to port the old database content into a new CMS?

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