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TinaCMS
Company blog · tinacms.org/blogwebprogramming
TinaCMS is the company blog at tinacms.org, writing about web and programming. Since 2019, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “TinaCMS – Introducing Visual Open Authoring. Crowdsource Your Content”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention TinaCMS, an open source editor for JAMstack sites that works with Gatsby and Next.js, and link it in a hiring post and in recommendations for building sites. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Combine the power of GitHub and Markdown with TinaCMS for seamless content management. Empower developers and creators to edit, preview, and manage static and dynamic sites effortlessly.
Most-linked posts?
- TinaCMS – Introducing Visual Open Authoring. Crowdsource Your Content3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-03-09
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-12-05
- TinaCMS: Build Real-Time editing into your React-based sites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
- /teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Forestry.io ( https://forestry.io ) | Solutions Engineer, Developer Relations Lead | Remote (UTC -8 to UTC -3) | Full-Time --- About Us Forestry.io is on a mission to help people build a better web. We’re building a Git-backed content management system (CMS) and an open source site-editing toolkit (TinaCMS) -both focused on the JAMstack. We're a small, growing company (17 people) and are proud of our remote-first, p…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Tina is not a CMS as a story · 180 points
HN discussionTina CMS [1] is something I bumped into (haven't tried since I'm not enamored by React, or rather, JavaScript based sites for blogs). It provides an editor right on your site, and works with static site generators like Gatsby and NextJS. [1]: https://tinacms.org/
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on “How to start a blog using Hugo”Submitted New Plugin – Wordpress to Gatsby Exporter as a story · 17 points
HN discussion> But my problem is that my customers cannot run cli They don't need to. Netlify watches your Github repository and automatically triggers a deploy when changed. They just press save and it gets deployed. > Tina CMS has nice drag/drop building capability like WordPress page builders It does! So does Forestry, it's called the Blocks feature. https://forestry.io/blog/blocks-give-your-editors-the-power-... https://tina…
Comment linking /docs/fields/blocks
on “Tina is not a CMS”Submitted TinaCMS – Introducing Visual Open Authoring. Crowdsource Your Content as a story · 14 points
HN discussionA lot of the problems you’re talking about have been solved for years now. A common setup might be Forestry CMS, Gatsby SSG, and Netlify to build+deploy. And Tina Teams will be the future of that: https://tinacms.org/teams
Comment linking /teams
on “Tina is not a CMS”Submitted Visual Open Authoring as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I think that'd need to be sovled for small businesses, as the changes are local only This is exactly why we created Tina Teams ( https://tinacms.org/teams ). We will start sending early access invites in 2 weeks.
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on “Tina is not a CMS”Submitted TinaCMS: Build Real-Time editing into your React-based sites as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPreview Mode is an amazing innovation! I work on TinaCMS, a toolkit for building content management into your website, and we just implemented an open-authoring system on our own docs. People can contribute to our docs without ever leaving the website. You just click "Edit this post" and it will create a fork and enter inline-editing mode. Any changes are committed back to your fork and then you can open a PR from t…
Comment linking /blog/introducing-visual-open-authoring
on “Next.js 9.3 – Static Site Support, 32 KB Smaller Runtime”I'd use Gatsby with TinaCMS. Although TinaCMS isn't quite ready for primetime yet. https://tinacms.org And hosting with Netlify maybe.
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on “Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?”TinaCMS supports this exact thing with Gatsby and Next.js There's also been some prototypes of TinaCMS being used to edit Hugo sites. https://tinacms.org
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on “Perch: a really little CMS”Makes it easy to build a CMS into your static website and edit it from production. My personal site is Next.js + TinaCMS and all the content is stored in the GitHub repository https://tinacms.org/guides/nextjs/github/initial-setup/
Comment linking /guides/nextjs/github/initial-setup/
on “Blogging on Next.js: Generating static index pages”