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Matt Billman, the Co-founder of Netlify came up with the name to try to counteract the perceptions of non-technical users that Static Sites meant sites that didn't have any kind of dynamic functionality.

He came up with the name in his living room over beers.

Neat podcast episode about the etymology here - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...

JAMstack

Javascript APIs Markup

Coined by Matt Biilmann, Co-founder of Netlify

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:12PM (#18356767)
TakeShape, a headless GraphQL CMS | Developer Advocate, Software Engineering, DevOps, Product Management, UX Design, Customer Success | REMOTE OK

Serverless Lambda Stack on the backend. React on the front.

https://www.takeshape.io/careers/

Re:Static site generators need less rigid content APIs on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:03PM (#18195146)
Give TakeShape a try https://www.takeshape.io/.

I'm one of the Co-founders. We built TakeShape to be a more end to end static site CMS. TakeShape has a GraphQL API and Static Site generator that uses nunjucks for templating. You could also just as easily only use the GraphQL API with React or GatsbyJS's new native 3rd party API support.

TakeShape has built-in integration with s3, GCS, FTP and Netlify.

TakeShape comes after 7 years of running a design agency and trying to balance the best of many different styles of CMS and site creation approaches.

Did you ever try to go directly to insurance companies and pitch to offer your service through them?
Re:Show HN: TakeShape, a Headless GraphQL CMS and SSG on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:38AM (#18024978)
Hi, I'm Mark, one of the Co-Founders of TakeShape.

TakeShape comes out of our experience running Ronik Design, a creative agency, for the past 7 years.

We set out to build a CMS that allowed us to be more expressive with our work while not having to manage a CMS on the backend.

We always wanted a tool like TakeShape so we decided to build it. TakeShape provides all the elements of a JAMStack. Flexible content modeling, GraphQL API and Static Site generation all with a simple to use web UI and CLI for developers.

Re:A tarot deck inspired by the pioneering women of STEM on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:02PM (#17929521)
Looking forward to a deck for myself and giving one to my niece!
Re:Show HN: A Punny 3D Interactive Valentine's Card on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @02:56PM (#16378816)
For those curious here's the repo! https://github.com/ronik-design/love.ronikdesign.com

This project was a blast to create. Our team's slack has been full off design and dev puns for the past week.

We're built www.takeshape.io for this exact use case. Quick way to get your static site up and running with a CMS backend. If you're interested I can put you into the beta program.