I’ve spent the past 3 weeks trying to port a handful of WordPress sites to EmDash CMS, a new open source CMS from Cloudflare
But it might all be for naught… I believe my love of Cloudflare + excitement for "the shiny new thing" blinded me towards what I really need for my business case
After banging my head with build times, load times, etc I had to step back
Now I’ve spent the a few hours today really challenging my assumptions and looking at other options like Payload CMS, SonicJS, and some git-based CMS solutions like Alinea and Sveltia
I'm still not sure what I'll end up on, but I am excited about what we're building
tl;dr I may have wasted TONS of time and thousands of dollars of engineering contractor time on my team for the wrong solution!! FML
I've been hammering Opus 4.7 and Gstack’s skills to help me think it through, plus getting second opinions from Gemini and Codex. I'll try getting a second opinion on my PRD from GPT 5.5 too
Happy Friday! Any suggestions appreciated
@nickgraynews
