What is a CMS?

• Content Managment System for websites
• Manages static sites' pages and content (e.g. blog articles, team members, FAQs, etc.)
• Allows marketing to edit Hometap.com
• Helps us as a company put our best foot forward
• Currently uses Webflow, a lightweight but barebone solution

What does Webflow look like?

Where is Webflow falling short?

• One computer logged in at a time for our one account
• Doesn't allow for more than 1 testing environment
• No blog pagination, unless building each page by hand
• Limits what we can build to within the tools Webflow provides
• One tool trying to serve both Developers and Content Managers

Time to Split Up the Tooling

New Tooling for Developers!

• Just write code—for both creating the site, and managing the CMS structure
• Infinitely more customizable options, since we are just writing code
• Uses Github for single source of truth
• We can have as many developers as we want working on it at once

New Tooling for Content Managers!

Write Less Code —

Leverage Open Source Communities

• React - Popular Open Source Software with large developer community
• Gatsby — Open Source Software, built on React
• NetlifyCMS — Open Source Software, built on React

Leverage Microservices

• Netlify — Super Secure Continuous Deployment
• FileStack — File Uploading API to minimize development time on commonly used code
• Airtable - Rapid prototyping (plus we have it already!)

From the beginning, we've looked at a lot of different CMSes.

One day I found this.
(Weird I know...)

We quickly discovered—
Airtable is a terrible CMS,
but an amazing prototyping tool...

A Surprise Demo!!

Warning: this is a prototype, please proceed with caution.

my-hometap.netlify.com