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Show HN: Foundry: a Markdown-first CMS written in Go

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30 points by nsayoda 2 days ago

Hi HN! I've been building a CMS called Foundry, brought together from multiple smaller private projects as well as greenfield code.

The short version is: it's a CMS written in Go with a focus on markdown content, a simple hook-based plugin model, themes, archetypes, preview flows, and a clean authoring/developer experience.

I started working on it because I wanted something that was more powerful than Hugo for a few of my websites, without having to resort to dangling onto a database.

What seems different about it, at least to me, is that I'm trying to keep the system small in concept: local content, explicit behavior, compile-time plugin registration, and an admin/editor layer that is meant to stay close to how the content actually lives on disk. The goal is not to make "yet another website builder", but to make a CMS that is easy to use and quick to onramp onto, but has powerful advanced features and extensibility.

Still early, but usable enough that I wanted to put it in front of people here and get feedback. Please don't castigate me on the UI look - I'm not a designer, and the themes are basically clones of each other.

Happy to answer technical questions, architecture questions, or hear where this seems useful versus where it does not.

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