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ApostropheCMS: Open Source CMS for Modern Websites

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ApostropheCMS: Open Source CMS for Modern Websites is the company blog at apostrophecms.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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14mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2026

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a 2022 HN thread on which CMS people use, where it appears only as one candidate in a list of open-source CMSs. The comments do not discuss the site's writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

ApostropheCMS is an open source CMS for JavaScript teams. Editors work directly on the live page, and developers keep their own frontend stack.

Most-linked posts?

  1. ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. Michelin uses it, there's a case study: https://apostrophecms.com/case-studies/michelin-case-study

    Comment linking /case-studies/michelin-case-study

    on “ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise”
  2. Submitted ApostropheCMS – An Open-Source Node.js CMS for the Enterprise as a story · 91 points

    HN discussion
  3. As someone who dabbled in PHP but is mostly a self-taught JS hobbyist dev, I have been using and loving Directus ( https://directus.io ) since around the time they switched to Node. Development velocity is exceptional with new features released every couple of weeks and bugfixes/enhancements even more frequent, the community and core team is fantastic, and I like the fact that if I ever decide to switch to another C…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?”
  4. Submitted Useful open source tools: the little things add up as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Here are some of my suggestions: https://strapi.io/ https://payloadcms.com/ https://keystonejs.com/ https://directus.io/ https://ghost.org/ https://apostrophecms.com/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?”
  6. Submitted How to be more productive with Claude Code without shipping slop as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. I've been busy adding postgres and sqlite support to apostrophecms: https://apostrophecms.com Six months ago, that would have been unrealistic, because we're heavily committed to the mongodb API and we make it part of our own API. Starting in December though, Opus 4.6 made it perfectly realistic to pursue this with Claude Code as a series of personal weekend projects. Now, despite not having any official resources o…

    Comment linking /blog/claude-code-part-2-making-the-leap-without-shipping-slop

    on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)”
  8. Submitted How to be more productive with Claude Code, Part 1 (it's just a little bit YOLO) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Plain old Unix permissions can get it done. One account for you, one account for AI. A shared folder belonging to a group that both are in. umask and setgid to get the story right for new files. https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-wit...

    Comment linking /blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-1

    on “Don't YOLO your file system”
  10. Submitted ApostropheCMS: The website builder solution you've been looking for as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted ApostropheCMS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Alpha version of ApostropheCMS 3.0 official release as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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