Show HN: Dropkick – a simple CMS with an HTML or Bootstrap template
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However you may notice that your Demo page has been "hacked", in a truly great way, redirecting everyone to wordpress.org.
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I don't really see the use case for something in between a "fire and forget" static HTML site and a well administrated full featured Wordpress (or similar) CMS. As soon as you add PHP or other server side executable you'll need to update constantly and run into update problems.
c'mon, folks - WP runs 40% of the friggin' web, and it's a free OS project. It isn't anyone's "competitor".
WP is what most Mom & Pop shows think of when they want to make a simple website, and alternatives will continue to measure themselves against it & tell you why they fit a different niche. That's just simple marketing.
> If (like us) you just want a few editable pages or elements on a page for clients to edit, then here you go.
Seems fair enough. To me the value is a small site where I can just do some simple stuff.
Granted I have not really used WordPress, but I am just going to assume that there is /something/ to what they say - considering they base their whole product on it.
(And yes I have heard that WordPress is very easy to setup)
> To me the value is a small site where I can just do some simple stuff.
Referring to "dropkick" that is
Wordpress is still a great solution for many projects.
However, there are a lot of web designers who need to allow clients to edit only one or two pages of a site. They don't need to change the design or add new pages or anything else. That would freak them out.
Plus - they work with static HTML templates like Bootstrap themes or other and don't want (can't) convert it to a WP theme.
Lots of solutions for this purpose are around (CushyCMS, SurrealCMS, PageLime etc) - this is another in that vein - but there are differences to all of these.
If the right project or client came up then this would work really well.
Or you could roll your own with Octopress/Jekyll.
cheers again
Regarding the dynamic live-updating content, why? What is the use case for that?
lastly, the demo site doesn't seem to even track the edit page at all. When I loaded the admin section, there was a picture, bolded text, and some text that was different from the home page.
Curious to see if this picks up, seems a bit counter-intuitive to me (if the project is so small, I'd just draft up the pages myself, why bother with a full-fledge CMS?), but there are probably people who'll like that?
With more or different scopes, Plugins are necessary. And yes you can implement all needed Plugins static into a CMS, but then you have to update definitely the CMS with more potential Bugs.
And yes WordPress need better competitor.
And yes, every PHP developer in the last 15 years build his own CMS with staic site generator, without update hassle... because they never update ;-)
I don't think there's anything wrong with ask people to pay upfront if you have good demos, videos and screenshots.
Numbers showing that freemium increase conversion would be interesting, I just do see it being worth the hassle.
Also, it's PHP, how would you avoid people just using your code and not pay? You could do a stripped down version, but that's a lot of addition work for $30... and can you strip out that much functionality from something as small as this?
It's $30, that's cheap enough that you can buy it, test it and then decide that it wasn't what you needed anyway.
We routinely pay $20-100 for software we may never end up using. It's a small enough amount that if it pays of the saving on internal development time easily make up of the next ten small investments that didn't work out.