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Posted by
mateomorris on Thursday July 20, 2023 @10:35AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://primocms.org
Hey HN! It’s been about three years since you sent my open source CMS, Primo, to the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23820201), inspiring me to quit my cushy remote job at the height of the pandemic to work on it full-time (naive and impulsive, I agree). Life has been pretty interesting since then. I’ve burned through my savings, lost my primo.af domain name to the Taliban, and...
Posted by
mateomorris on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:29PM
from the breezly.io dept.
You might like primo.so then - makes a static sure you can hand off to anyone & it’s open source.
not yet, that's one of the next things we're working on.
The problem you're describing is exactly why I'm working on
https://primo.so.
WordPress makes content editing easier, but damages the developer experience. So devs reach for JS frameworks in search of more productivity, but then the content editing experience suffers.
I found the solution was to embed a code editor in the CMS itself. As strange as it sounds, removing the distance between the content and code means that devs can build and modify components and whole sites (which are made of both) in a tenth of the time while giving content editors the page-building powers they love.
SvelteKit would be a breath of fresh air.
Agree, but think there’s potential for improved typing speed on desktop. I just learned about this new keyboard (called CharaChorder) that lets you type 300WPM+ by pressing multiple multi-directional keys at once (ie “chording” keys). Could definitely see it taking off with professionals who are bottlenecked by typing speed.
That same thinking is what led me to build [Primo](
https://github.com/primodotso/primo) - a SSG in a desktop/server CMS. It’s the only thing me or anyone I know who’s uses it uses to build normal websites anymore bc it’s so much faster to get a site up and easier to write code/content.
Check out Primo. Still in Alpha but very promising for that use-case.
primo.so sounds like what you’re describing. It’s a FOSS low-code site builder that lets you build/publish websites built from HTML/CSS/JS (Svelte actually, but close)
Hadn’t realized this - thanks for the heads up
https://primo.af is exactly this. It’s still in Alpha but I’m releasing the Beta within the next few weeks.
Automation, at least. When they started spraying the crops with water (like from the toilet) instead of Brawndo, half the population got automatically laid off.
If you really care about open source software, as you seem to, you should know that attitudes and statements like this are just about the worst thing for it. Self-hosting isn’t the only benefit or purpose of OSS. It’s fair to point out that it isn’t easy to self-host, but consider doing it without being poisonous.
I am. Firestore is powerful but it’s still a non-relational database, compared to the power of Postgres on the Supabase side
Supabase has been better in every way than Firebase. Even if it wasn’t open source it would still be a better alternative. No-sql’s main (only?) appeal is approachability; Supabase makes relational data just as approachable while avoiding the ceiling that every Firebase project seems to hit. Plus its database UI is actually usable.