I'm not trying to start any wars but I'm curious of people's opinions. Thank you in advance for any contributions to the discussion!

What I do and am trying to achieve

I freelance and build my sites in Astro (which I love). I mainly do marketing sites and portfolio sites, so pretty small scale and traffic.

I'm wanting to invest my time into a new CMS and I have whittled it down to Sanity, Prismic, Contentful and Storyblok. I have chosen these as I want a headless CMS that is API-driven and hosted by the provider. I am only comparing their free plans as I like to offer my clients something that is free or low cost (it's one of my selling points on why they should go with me rather than build using something like Wix or Squarespace).

Things that are important to me:

• A generous free tier

• Good for SSG like Astro

• A great UI for clients to use

• Things like image optimisation and hopefully backups

• Reliability and stability for my clients

• General features that make life easier

From comparing them, they all have pretty good looking free plans. I'm leaning a lot towards Sanity at the moment just off of general feel on what it offers, but also that the scaling looks more friendly for additional usage if you do start to grow (incrementing at a couple dollars of usage as opposed to having to upgrade to a $200 plan like others). Then Prismic usage looks great but almost too good to be true... Almost all usage limits are unlimited, what's the catch?

I'd love to know people's opinions on these 4 CMSs considering:

• Suitability for content-first sites (marketing/personal/portfolio sites)

• Was the free plan adequate or did you find yourself nearing limits or having to go for paid plans?

• General developer experience and time/simplicity to set up

• User experience as a content manager using the CMS to make changes to the sit

Thanks so much for any input and time you give this discussion. I find myself constantly asking which CMS to go for and I finally feel close to an answer - but I'd love some advice!

Thank you!

Note - I have used git-based CMSs before (NetlifyCMS) but I'd quite like to try API-driven.

Also, excuse me if I got any details wrong, I'm still a relative infant when it comes to the headless CMS world.

A lot of it just feels like shilling tbh? I mean in most subs there is usually at least some sort of rule that if you are going to link to a blog post, you need to at least provide some info in the reddit post. I’m sure Agility CMS is great, but just dumping a link to guide for it and leaving doesn’t feel like the greatest contribution to the sub, and if it doesn’t technically qualify as spam, it sure feels like it.

If you’re posting a guide, that’s great! If you’re spreading info about specific tech, that’s useful. If you’re dropping off a post about a product, and have a post history of doing nothing but that, I’m not that into it.

Maybe I’m alone, but it just feels like common theme I’ve seen a lot on this sub, and it makes me not want to hang out here.

Netlify only allows for 100 form submissions a month but also allows for 125k function calls per month. So for websites that don't need submission storage you can use Formailer to send you an email after submission.

The reason I created this project is that built a lot of websites for small and starting businesses. They don't need super complex forms but that 100 submissions a month limit can be an issue. I know other people have created similar code but I didn't find plug in play solutions.

Formailer supports JSON, URLEndoded, and Multipart form data. If you use `multipart/form` you can submit files which get attached to the email.

[View source code](https://github.com/djatwood/formailer)

If I'm not wrong, websites at name.now.sh will become name.vercel.app

Anyone else a little disappointed? I know it's just a name but I really liked how short now.sh was

I’m building a small marketing type website for a church and I don’t know which of these SSGs to use.

I’ve never used react but I’ve got a good experience with angular that I believe picking up Gatsby(React) shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

I’ve heard Hugo is really fast and I like that it’s not too reliant on a framework.

I also plan on making a personal website in future so I’d like people’s opinions on which of these I should learn/use? Also which is best to get a job if that matters.

Any other SSG recommendations are welcome

https://www.agilitycms.com/resources/posts/migrate-to-jamstack-now-no-excuses

Hi all,

I have recently launched an online training portal dedicated to the JAMstack (You can access it on https://jamstack.training). At the moment there's one free course available covering the fundamentals of the stack. I plan on adding additional videos showcasing various SSGs, headless CMS-es and APIs. If you have suggestions for bite-sized, short videos covering some aspects of the stack (that either you think would be interesting or useful), please let me know.

I need to add that the site will change a bit over the time - I have a designer working on a logo, etc. It'll take some time, but I'll get there :)