Hey Product Hunters,
I was building a website for a friend and I REALLY didn't want to use WordPress. I was tired of updating plugins, dealing with hacked sites, paying for expensive hosting, etc. So, my co-founder and I built Forestry.io, a CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites that works with GitHub and allows you to host anywhere.
Instead of 100's of PHP files, Forestry is a full CMS in a single html file. Drop it into your static Hugo or Jekyll site and log from mysite.com/admin/. Boom done. No updates required, no hassle.
It commits all content updates back to your GitHub repo and can publish to your host (Amazon S3, FTP, GitHub Pages, etc). If you commit to your repo, Forestry will pull in your changes so people using the CMS will see them.
Build modern, fast sites and give you clients access to them.
Looking forward to everyone's feedback. Thanks to @chrismessina for posting!
@bentossell quite a lot
• We rebuilt the WYSIWYG editor (inspired by Medium.com). Now you can switch back and forth between Markdown & WYSIWYG
• You can now drop Forestry into your site and access via mysite.com/admin/ (a full blown CMS in a single HTML file)
• We completely redesigned the user interface
• And many other small features (GitLab support, better UI fields, automatic deployment when a git commit is detected, etc)
I'm really excited about tools like this. A CMS that builds upon pre-existing and powerful tools that can be installed with a few clicks.
Thanks for letting me test out Forestry.io. I'm super keen to use it on future projects!
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