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Why I Built a Headless CMS on Top of GitHub (and What I Learned as a Solo Founder)

DEV Community·Asahi Fujisawa·about 1 month ago
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I love Jamstack. I've built a lot of sites with Next.js — personal projects, client work, side products. The pattern clicks for me: static by default, dynamic where it matters, deployable anywhere. But every time I needed to manage content, I hit the same wall. The problem with headless CMS tools The cloud-based options — Contentful, Sanity, Prismic — are genuinely good. But they come with pricing tiers that feel arbitrary when you're a solo developer with three projects and a limited budget. You start free, you grow a little, and suddenly you're deciding whether a blog is worth $99/month. The open-source alternatives (Strapi, Payload, Directus) are powerful, but they require a server and a database. That's not a complaint — it's just not what I wanted. I didn't want to provision infrastructure to publish a blog post. What I actually wanted was simple: a free, cloud-native headless CMS with no server to run and no credit card required. Then I thought: wait. I already have GitHub.…

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