Show HN: How to Use GitHub Gists as a Free Headless CMS

Woah this is pretty powerful. It also appears the [1] github repositories api supports this too.

So you could have a structured repo containing all your posts instead of gists... Not quite relational, but better!

[1] https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/

See also https://coisas.alhur.es/ for an app that turns your GitHub repo into a real CMS.

bl.ocks.org has been functioning this way for years, allowing to show-case code.

For example, https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7881887 is rendered from the content found in https://gist.github.com/mbostock/7881887.

Awesome idea! It made me realize that GitHub Gists could be used as a free non relational DB, with the proper setup perhaps even private. I'm working on a FOSS project manager (release date TBD), I'll look into this for sure!

this is super cool!