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DatoCMS
Company blog · datocms.com/blog · on HN as steffozwebbusinessprogramming
DatoCMS is the company blog at datocms.com, writing about web, business and programming. Since 2016, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Show HN: DatoCMS – A client-friendly CMS for any static website generator”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention DatoCMS as a headless CMS for static sites, usually alongside Contentful, Hygraph and Storyblok in recommendation lists. Praise centres on its editor and developer experience.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The content platform for projects of any size, built around the needs of all team members. Simply put, the most user-friendly and performant headless CMS.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: DatoCMS – A client-friendly CMS for any static website generator7 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2017-01-02
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-08
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-12
What Hacker News says?
There are some web services that will run a static site system for you like https://www.netlifycms.org/ or https://www.datocms.com/ .
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on “Au Revoir”Submitted 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 as a story · 306 points
HN discussionCurious if you've used Contentful ( http://contentful.com ) or Dato ( https://www.datocms.com ) yet - and if you have, what your biggest issues were with them. We've used Contentful extensively basically since it's inception, and have toyed around with Dato enough to know what the offering is. We have our own list of missing pieces for both but am always curious about other's experiences.
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on “Show HN: Primo – all-in-one IDE, CMS, component library, static site generator”Submitted We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you) as a story · 167 points
HN discussionYes, there are lots now! There are some good ones, but some are definitely way pricier than I think they should be. With Next.js, you can even use Wordpress as a cms to back a static blog ( https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/cms-w... ) Just a few off the top of my head: - https://graphcms.com - https://prismic.io - https://www.sanity.io - https://www.datocms.com/ - https://www.cosmicjs.com/ More…
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on “Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again”Submitted Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text as a story · 65 points
HN discussionIf this is for a client that can't manage a static site themselves, then I would probably look into splitting out the content editing part. For example services like https://www.datocms.com/ let you publish to a separate static site generator.
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on “Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or small stores?”Submitted Show HN: DatoCMS – Headless CMS for static websites as a story · 55 points
HN discussionIt doesn't support translation AFAICT, but I've been playing with DatoCMS[0] and I've been happy with it for my needs. I suppose you probably could build a translation workflow on top of their API if you were feeling ambitious. [0] http://datocms.com/
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on “Static Website Generators”Submitted Show HN: DatoCMS – A client-friendly CMS for any static website generator as a story · 40 points
HN discussionBut employees get a part of the cake too! If profits are high, we all celebrate together! During 2025, 7% of the profits have been shared with our employees (and stable freelancers). In 2024 it was 6%. https://www.datocms.com/company/profit-sharing
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on “10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13”Submitted Show HN: DatoCMS – An alternative to Contentful for static websites as a story · 16 points
HN discussionNot just huge companies.. lots of web agencies [1] and mid-sized businesses use us to manage their web presence, mostly for the same reason: building custom sites quickly without the hassle of maintaining software. We’re not really optimized for huge websites (or customers). [1]: https://www.datocms.com/partners/showcase
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on “10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13”Submitted Show HN: DatoCMS, a Client-Friendly CMS for Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman, Etc. as a story · 15 points
HN discussionShameless plug, but if you plan to pair Next with an headless CMS, we (DatoCMS) make it super easy to handle responsive, progressive, lazy-loaded images with blur-up thumbs, as our edge CDN takes care of everything for you, without paying any cost at build time. https://www.datocms.com/blog/offer-responsive-progressive-lq...
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on “Next.js 9.4 – Fast Refresh, Incremental Static Regeneration”Submitted We have released an MCP, sometimes it works as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWe evaluated a dozen or so for work last year, and my two personal favorites were DatoCMS and GraphCMS (now called Hygraph). A bit more details in this thread here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993835 ), but basically DatoCMS had a great out of the box editor experience, while Hygraph had a slightly better/more flexible data model and GraphQL mutability. There are a LOT of options out there now though...…
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on “Ask HN: Getting tired of complexity in web development”Submitted Show HN: DatoCMS – An API-based CMS for your static websites as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWow. Didn't expect this :) I was the author of this tiny extension back in the days (extension #201, I still remember it) together with a friend who recently passed away, Federico Parodi. We hacked the first version when we still didn't know much about JS, but it immediately exploded (500k daily users). Donations were super helpful at that time, being 22 years old with a newborn. After a couple of years (iirc) Nils…
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on “DownThemAll (2019)”Submitted "Its just CRUD", and other misconceptions when thinking 'I can vibe build a CMS' as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlthough our solution is a bit different, we support it! http://datocms.com We plan to officially launch our ShowHN within a couple of weeks, so sorry if the marketing site and the documentation is not 100% ready.. but the product is already working, you can signup and start playing with it immediately :)
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on “Forestry.io”Submitted Interview with Jeff Escalante: how HashiCorp gets the best out of a headless CMS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI think this is a task that is handled by an optional CMS, not the static site generator itself, though I agree it would be handy to have a little helper snippet to do that during build. There are CMS solutions for static sites which will probably handle images, and all kinds of content, easily. Check out Dato[1], Siteleaf[2] or Netlify CMS[3]. Alternatively you can use external tools to prepare your images and simp…
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on “Top Open-Source Static Site Generators”Submitted How to get real-time draft previews with Next.js and DatoCMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are countless CMS for static sites / blogs these days: - https://www.datocms.com/ - https://www.netlifycms.org/ - https://www.siteleaf.com/
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on “Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress”Well, even if you do not understand Git, static website generators are starting to become a viable solution.. if you want to offer a web-based editing experience to your clients, you can use products like http://www.datocms.com/ or https://forestry.io/
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on “HubPress.io: A web application to build your blog on GitHub”> I'm thinking of building a text-annotation based app _alone in my spare time_. The core usage loop is about viewing and interacting with "visual markup" applied to a body of text. So lots of tooltips/hoverbars I guess. Can you elaborate a bit more on this part, please? Or show us a mockup... doesn't have to be anything fancy, just like a pen and paper sketch or a simple Figma. I'm asking because it kinda sounds li…
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on “Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework”With a CMS for static websites like DatoCMS [1] you can have the best from both words: edit your post from a good old web interface and publish a rock solid, stupid, static website. [1]: https://www.datocms.com
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on “Show HN: Publish blog post with a simple Git push”DatoCMS ( https://www.datocms.com ) just released search for static websites in alpha. When the static site gets published, it automatically spiders it and you can integrate a JS widget on your site.
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on “Show HN: A search widget for static web sites”I'd recommend the following options. Both platforms offer enterprise solutions, but also provide free starter plans: https://www.storyblok.com/ https://www.datocms.com/ From own experience, the developer experience is awesome. Both are based in Europe, which is probably why those were not mentioned here before :)
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on “Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation”