[HN Gopher] Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable...
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Tipe raises $2.1M seed round to build a customizable CMS for
developers
Author : tmvnty
Score : 22 points
Date : 2020-08-25 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| davidlumley wrote:
| What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS
| products like Contentful?
| Scotups wrote:
| Here are just a few things:
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| 1. Our frontend editor, where you edit content, is open-source.
| You can add new field types with react components easily. 2.
| The editor is also mounted on your site and lives there
| wherever you want. So, yousite.com/cms. We handle auth as well.
| 3. You define your schema in your code, like a DB schema,
| instead of in a GUI. Your schema lives in git with your app. 4.
| You can get started completely from the CLI, never touching a
| web app. 5. You can extend your schemas with plugins from the
| community. 6. We give your features like content previews right
| out the box with no code setup.
| solidasparagus wrote:
| I can't find anything that explains what Tipe actually is. It's a
| plugin-based, customizable SaaS?
|
| Their GitHub page is some confusing bullshit where they seem to
| have taken the repo of a completely unrelated Angular animation
| library that has been inactive for 6 years and converted it to be
| Tipe, presumably to make it seem as if Tipe has earned 2.1k stars
| when it was actually the Angular project that earned those stars.
|
| They claim to be open-source but I see zero source code. Maybe
| the source is in one of the two different CLIs that seem to
| exist? But the one that actually seems documented and usable
| hasn't had a commit in 10 months.
| Scotups wrote:
| yea, you're absolutely right! I am the author of that said
| animation lib, ngFx, from years ago. Was actually my first open
| source project. When we started tipe years ago, we sunsetted
| that project and used the stars to generate hype for tipe. We
| were way ahead of ourselves :). Because we're in private
| release, all of our open source is private on github right now.
| Once we're not longer in private release, it will be public.
| jorams wrote:
| I'm sorry for the somewhat unproductive comment, but for anyone
| else wondering: Their homepage actually has an explainer below
| the title and the community reviews aren't empty gray blocks.
| They've just used a font weight of 100, making the text
| effectively invisible.
| JaggedJax wrote:
| Hmm, for me the text is almost white on almost black making for
| a lot of contrast and very easy to read from desktop Firefox.
| Scotups wrote:
| thanks for that, just pushed a fix
| jorams wrote:
| Great, thanks! Very readable now.
| Scotups wrote:
| Hey HN!
|
| I'm Scott Moss, CEO of Tipe (YC W18). We actually just saw that
| someone posted us on HN. So here to just drop a little bit about
| Tipe. Tipe is a headless, open-source CMS with a focus on
| Jamstack apps. Our goal is to have the quickest setup to allow
| your team to edit, preview, and publish content. We also want to
| enable you to customize and extend your CMS to fit your team's
| needs. You can even reuse components you already created in your
| app to customize tipe. The sky is the limit. We handle the API
| and infrastructure. We're currently in a Private release and are
| looking for teams who are using Next.js. If that's you, please
| sign up!
| jmvoodoo wrote:
| Hi Scott,
|
| I'm not in this industry anymore but used to work for a company
| that provides CMS to fortune 500s. A significant portion of our
| customers used angular (not angularjs). Are you planning on
| supporting that as well or remaining react focused?
| js4ever wrote:
| Wow, it's quite impressive to raise that much money without a
| public product. Congrats!
| hpoe wrote:
| Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content
| Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static
| content, and not be an app development platform do we need
| another?
|
| I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all its problems is fine,
| if someone is technical and wants more control and customization
| well really at that point Jekyll is pretty powerful, and if you
| want fancier you've got Gatsby or whatever the JS flavor of the
| month CMS is.
|
| Is there a shortage of tools to allow me to publish a webpage? Is
| the problem of creating and publishing a website so hard that we
| need a new entrant to solve the problem? How much more
| complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS and JS put it on a
| webserver."?
| vsareto wrote:
| One of Sitecore's sells (.NET CMS) is non-technical users can
| manage content and control the layout of the page WYSIWYG
| style. Developers still work on it, but it's less about app and
| page development and more about component and tools
| development.
|
| The key is allowing non-technical folks to work without much
| training. I don't think anyone has found the right balance yet.
| Scotups wrote:
| With tipe, this is possible. You as a developer have complete
| control over what non technical people can edit. From layouts
| to actual text on a page. You opt into what you want to be
| dynamic. Snd with our instant preview feature, your team can
| see their changes fast.
| sneak wrote:
| Gatsby and Jekyll are technical tools. The audience of a CMS
| and the audience of a command line program to consume a file
| system directory of yaml are different people.
|
| Additionally, something like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea is at the
| minimum required to even make that existing pain-in-the-ass
| workflow work.
|
| Try updating your jekyll site from your phone without using
| GitHub, for example.
| john-shaffer wrote:
| It's often a requirement that non-devs be able to edit the
| website. WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't
| really care about and isn't worth hacking, or if you can afford
| to pay Wordfence $99/mo and take the time to make it reasonably
| performant.
|
| Gatsby is not a CMS. It would be very nice to have a well-
| designed and supported CMS that is actually secure and
| efficient by default.
|
| > How much more complicated can it get then "Here is HTML, CSS
| and JS put it on a webserver."?
|
| My favorite so far is the combination of WordPress and Gatsby
| in such a way that you get the worst of both worlds. E.g.
| building a single page requires creating 10-20 posts in WP,
| with zero ability to see what changes will look like without
| actually deploying the site. All this complexity instead of
| just setting rel="preload".
| willio58 wrote:
| Totally agreed. There is room for something better. More
| modern than foundations than Wordpress without going too far
| into the JavaScript black hole.
| Scotups wrote:
| We agree as well. Thats why we made tipe. We are focused on
| deeper, low code / no code integrations with frameworks
| that still allow fluid customizations.
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