Back from vacation: NextBlock CMS Open Beta is LIVE (Giving $500/yr Lifetime Licenses for feedback!)

Hey IH community!

After taking a quick vacation to reset, we're back at the desk and excited to share a major milestone: The NextBlock CMS Open Beta is officially LIVE. 🚀

Quick recap for context: We’re building an open-core (AGPL) full-stack alternative to WordPress and headless CMSs, built natively on Next.js 16, Supabase, and Tailwind. We combine a Notion-style block editor with React Server Components to hit 100/100 Lighthouse scores out of the box.

We Need "Breaker" Testers
Before we do our official commercial launch, we need founders, developers, and agency owners to stress-test the product.

We are looking for feedback on everything:
• Bugs or broken UI/UX states • Missing features or blocks you need for your projects
• What feels unintuitive in the onboarding/dashboard flow

The Offer: $500/yr Lifetime Licenses 🎁
We aren't asking for free labor. Anyone who tests the CMS and leaves actionable feedback will receive a Lifetime Free License for our Premium Packages ($500/year combined value):

1. Premium E-Commerce: Native Stripe (physical) + Freemius (digital) with multi-currency & auto-tax sync.
2. Cortex AI: Our BYOK OpenRouter agentic layer that writes strict JSONB blocks directly into your database.

You can test in 15 seconds in our public sandbox at nextblock.dev or run npx create-nextblock locally.

Drop your thoughts below or join our Discord. What features do you look for first when evaluating a new CMS?