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Sanity.io
Company blog · sanity.io/blog · on HN as kmelveprogrammingweb
Sanity.io is the company blog at sanity.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2017, 53 different Hacker News readers have linked it 104 times, most often “Show HN: Sanity – A Headless CMS Construction Kit in JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention Sanity as a headless CMS product, and link its docs and blog posts on CMS building and content tooling. A few blog posts are praised as well written and substantive.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Sanity – A Headless CMS Construction Kit in JavaScript10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-11-14
- Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
- /careers3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-10-02
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-11-20
- Adding a give_feedback tool to our MCP server3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-18
- “You should never build a CMS”2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-12-14
- /studio2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-02
- A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-02
- How to quickly set up a Gatsby.js JAMstack website with a headless CMS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-24
- /docs/stega2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-15
What Hacker News says?
For a real-world use case: Sanity used this trick[0] to encode Content Source Maps[1] into the actual text served on a webpage when it is in "preview mode". This allows an editor to easily trace some piece of content back to a potentially deep content structure just by clicking on the text/content in question. It has it's drawbacks/limitations - eg you want to prevent adding it for things that needs to be parsed/use…
Comment linking /docs/stega
on “Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji”Submitted A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code as a story · 550 points
HN discussionUse them where they make sense, and don't get religious about it. I recently wrote a site to track Apple-silicon-native audio software. It works great as an MPA. It's fast, organized, and easy to use. And the first thing someone offered as a suggestion was: "Why don't you use https://www.sanity.io/ for the content and nextjs or gatsbyjs for the front end?" I can't even.
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on “SPAs Were a Mistake”Submitted “You should never build a CMS” as a story · 141 points
HN discussionThe consultancy I worked for didn't sell or promote that kind of tech, but I still got exposed to it at various clients. Seems like a top-down approach, some upper manager saw the cool tool promoted by someone and bought it, then demanding the devs use it no matter the fit. Instead of these heavy systems, my favorite has been https://www.sanity.io/ . Headless is the way to go, when your anyways building a custom fro…
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on “Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)”Submitted Mendoza: Use stack machines to compute efficient JSON diffs as a story · 115 points
HN discussion> and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. Anecdotally, this is how I felt when I tried out AI agents to help me write code (vibe coding). I always review the code and I ask it to break it down into smaller steps but because I didn't actually write and think of the code myself, I don't have it all in my brain. Sure, yes I can spend a lot of time really going through it and building my mental model b…
Comment linking /blog/first-attempt-will-be-95-garbage
on “MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline”Submitted Show HN: Sanity – A Headless CMS Construction Kit in JavaScript as a story · 90 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Backend/Golang Software Engineers | Oslo, Norway and San Francisco, CA | Full-time | VISA, ONSITE | https://sanity.io Sanity.io is a startup building world-leading cloud-hosted content infrastructure at enterprise scale. Basically we provide a global, real time structured content database with powerful query capabilities and an open source framework to build highly customized content management interface…
Comment linking /blog/hiring-backend-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted Glush: A robust parser compiler built using non-deterministic automatons as a story · 84 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Backend/Golang, Frontend/Javascript | Oslo, Norway | Full-time | VISA, ONSITE | https://sanity.io Sanity.io is a startup building world-leading cloud-based content infrastructure at enterprise scale. Basically we provide a global, real time structured content database with powerful query capabilities and an open source framework to build highly customized content management interfaces on top of it. We ar…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Performance-focused forks of styled-components as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Oslo or San Francisco | Full-time On-site Remote | UI/UX developer, Full-Stack developer, Developer Relations, Site Reliability Engineer, and Inside sales account executive. Sanity.io is the fastest, most flexible platform for delivering content to digital devices and products. Our platform is redefining the CMS market and changing the way organizations collaborate and work with content. We’re hosting a…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Submitted Norwegians release parser compiler based on Glushkov’s construction algorithm as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Backend Engineer, Go programmer | Oslo, Norway | Full-time | VISA, ONSITE | https://sanity.io Sanity.io is a startup building world-leading cloud-based content infrastructure at enterprise scale. Basically we provide a global, real time structured content database with powerful query capabilities and an open source framework to build highly customized content management interfaces on top of it. We are lo…
Comment linking /blog/hiring-backend-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Show HN: Get a Sanity powered site running in minutes as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Backend/Golang, Full-stack/Javascript | Oslo, Norway | Full-time | VISA, ONSITE | https://sanity.io Sanity.io is a startup building world-leading cloud-based content infrastructure at enterprise scale. Basically we provide a global, real time structured content database with powerful query capabilities and an open source framework to build highly customized content management interfaces on top of it. We…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted We're open sourcing GROQ: A query language for JSON documents as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSanity.io | US and Europe | Full-time | Sr. Front-End Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, Solution Engineer, Support Engineering, Account Executive, Recruiter Sanity.io is the fastest, most flexible platform for delivering content to digital devices and products. Our platform is redefining the CMS market and changing the way organizations collaborate and work with content. We’re hosting a real-time API for structur…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted A Rough Guide to Running a GDPR Compliant SaaS Business as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIf you like Firebase, I'd like to give a shout-out to Sanity [1]. (Disclosure: I work part-time on the backend, but I'm not an employee and I don't work on the product itself; but call this a shameless plug if you will!) Sanity is a headless CMS, but the API itself is like a souped-up Firebase and can be used on its own without adopting the Sanity UI. It's got many of the same features -- web API, change watching vi…
Comment linking /docs/data-store/how-queries-work
on “Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly”Submitted How to quickly set up a Gatsby.js JAMstack website with a headless CMS as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSanity, New Venture | Senior Data Engineer/Applied Data Scientist/Senior Full Stack Engineer | SF Bay Area hybrid (2 days/week in the office) | Full Time https://www.sanity.io/careers/senior-applied-scientist-ai-ml... https://www.sanity.io/careers/senior-data-engineer-new-ventu... https://www.sanity.io/careers/senior-full-stack-engineer-new... We’re helping companies make their web content more accurate, current and…
Comment linking /careers/senior-full-stack-engineer-new-venture
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Indexing in Algolia using serverless functions (and observables) as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Multiple JavaScript and Go developers positions | Oslo, Norway / San Francisco, USA | Full time | On-Site | Visa/Relocation support | https://sanity.io/careers Sanity.io is a startup building world-class cloud-based content infrastructure at enterprise scale. Specifically we are building APIs, tools, and user interfaces for editing and managing content. Our product is loved by developers and content edit…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted Real-Time Updates at Scale with Sanity's Live Content API as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSanity.io | Site Reliability Engineer | Oslo, Norway | Full-time | Onsite Sanity.io is a startup building world-class cloud-based content infrastructures at enterprise scale. Our passion is to enable developers of all kinds to work with editors in creating efficient flows of content within organizations. We want to strengthen our ops and infrastructure team with a Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for solid o…
Comment linking /blog/hiring-sre
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)”Submitted Blazing fast development with Gatsby and Sanity.io as a story · 6 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 We got coding agents to break the Wiggum barrier as a story · 5 points
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