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Payload
Company blog · payloadcms.com/blogprogrammingweb
Payload is the company blog at payloadcms.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Payload Is Joining Figma”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly name Payload as a headless CMS option, often as a WordPress replacement for Node or Next.js projects, alongside Strapi, Directus and Keystone.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Built with TypeScript and React, Payload is an open-source headless CMS and application framework. Build anything.
Most-linked posts?
- /8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-07-12
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-02-25
- Payload Is Joining Figma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-17
What Hacker News says?
> Consistent with Payload's goal of making you learn as little of Payload as possible, customizing and using the Rich Text Editor does not involve learning how to develop for a Payload rich text editor. Instead, you can invest your time and effort into learning Slate, an open-source tool that will allow you to apply your learnings elsewhere as well. I have to say, this callout from the JSON-based Rich Text Field doc…
Comment linking /docs/fields/rich-text
on “Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers”Submitted Dev-first headless CMS Payload is now completely free and open-source as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFebruary 37nd, 2022? [1] When did they add so many more days in February? [1] https://payloadcms.com/
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on “Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers”Submitted Payload Is Joining Figma as a story · 7 points
HN discussionElliot from Payload here. In addition to Dan's comments above, the main advantage of using Payload's Admin is that it can integrate directly with your auth as well as offer a richer editing experience beyond the normal CRUD that others provide. For instance: - Field-based access control - This allows a developer to use code to write complex functions in order to regular access to a field. This can also reference the…
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on “Launch HN: Payload (YC S22) – Headless CMS for Developers”Submitted Show HN: Payload CMS–a new, self-hosted TypeScript CMS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAppears to be open-core only https://payloadcms.com/enterprise
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on “PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework”Submitted Payload Cloud Goes Live as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPayload has a form builder plugin - https://payloadcms.com/docs/plugins/form-builder#form-builde... have you seen that?
Comment linking /docs/plugins/form-builder
on “PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework”Submitted Payload Launches 1.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussioni got excited seeing the post, because i thought v3 was released. For anyone who want's to know more about v3 here is a link: https://payloadcms.com/blog/30-beta-install-payload-into-any...
Comment linking /blog/30-beta-install-payload-into-any-nextjs-app-with-one-line
on “PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework”Submitted PayloadCMS Just Launched v3 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThey seem to recently position themselves as a Wordpress alternative. There is a blog post about migration from Wordpress to Payload including code: https://payloadcms.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to... No, it's a Headless CMS, so no frontend themes and templates. They have an official demo page including a frontend, that you can base your work on: https://github.com/payloadcms/public-demo If you are looki…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-payload
on “PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework”Submitted The Future of Headless CMS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe've got a hundred tenant multisite running on WP and have been looking at other options over the last couple of weeks. I am most interested by PayloadCMS https://payloadcms.com/blog/how-to-build-a-multi-tenant-app-... . However our CMS needs, for this product, are very simple, so Payload suits. We've also been looking at a multitenancy option for WordPress, in particular using Gridpave https://gridpane.com/kb/usin…
Comment linking /blog/how-to-build-a-multi-tenant-app-with-payload
on “Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today”Submitted Payload Is Joining Figma as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPayload is really nice: https://payloadcms.com
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on “WordPress Alternatives”Submitted Payload CMS Roadmap Released as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy most recent project launched in January. NextJS 14 client integrated with PayloadCMS ( http://payloadcms.com ) for the back-end. I love both technologies in theory, but they're both going through a renaissance period and "bleeding edge" doesn't even begin to describe it. If I'm just building a client app, create-react-app is still my go to. Before now, I'd been building on WordPress for 10+ years for anything cli…
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on “Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?”Submitted Payload 2.0: Postgres, Live Preview, Lexical RTE, and More as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://payloadcms.com -- I'm all in after 12 years on WP.
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on “Ask HN: Where After WordPress?”Submitted SQL vs. NoSQL – cutting through the Tech Twitter noise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere are some of my suggestions: https://strapi.io/ https://payloadcms.com/ https://keystonejs.com/ https://directus.io/ https://ghost.org/ https://apostrophecms.com/
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on “Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?”https://payloadcms.com/ For js/node
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on “Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?”You should speak to PayloadCMS guys. It can be mutually benefiting (publicity/more users/etc.). It needs Mongo, but if it works with Ferret backed by SQLite (and others) that would be game changer. https://payloadcms.com/ Great project of yours! Thank you * will try to hack docker-compose for this if time allows
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on “Show HN: MongoDB Protocol for SQLite”have you considered PayloadCMS? it has hooks for nearly any situation imaginable: https://payloadcms.com/docs/hooks/overview not affiliated in any way
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on “APITable open-source 500k lines code, the best Airtable alternative”Check out Payload - fully OSS, modeled after the … few good parts of WP https://payloadcms.com I built it because I was in the same situation as you.
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on “Ask HN: Best headless CMS for a developer portal”The way your landing page is laid out isn't doing you any favors. If you are going to build a rapid application development platform, look at Retool for inspiration in terms of designs and copywriting. Cut the token stuff, otherwise you will lose customers or self select for crypto bros. The license you chose will turn off most professional development shops and the ones using the platform would be based in places l…
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on “Go with PHP”Strapi[0] is great and Payload[1] also looks promising. [0] https://strapi.io/ [1] https://payloadcms.com/
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on “Show HN: Self-hosted CMS on Server-less Cloudflare for podcast/blog/img/videos”Hey Sanju - would love to know what you think about Payload ( https://payloadcms.com ). We were in YC S22 and we've done a lot of what you've mentioned. Our ambitions are the same as yours. Maybe we could collaborate?
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on “Ask HN: Is It Worth Building the Next Headless CMS?”