Headless cms as a backend?
Hello fellow indie hackers
I'm building a new website where companies need to manage their content (text, structured data, media) and also set some settings. I need like 3 different roles for that and each company would have somewhere between 3-10 accounts.
Because I feel like today this should be possible to do without code I looked into a solution and headless cms seem like a perfect fit.
BUT, they always charge for the number of users and this would get very expensive. Most of those users would not be very active and only use the product for a period of time, but it has to stay online. So paying a high price for inactive users is not ideal.
Do you guys know any solution for a problem like that which does not include paying a very high monthly price?
Strapi.js, you can host your own version. IMO, its best open source project.
strapi is on my shortlist, it looks very promising and with 30 custom roles for 29$ per month, it is very affordable.
Would Wordpress work for you? I apologize in advance if that sounds like "let me Google that for you" but perhaps you could clarify why something like that would not work for your use case.
I forgot to mention I'm also building a frontend with the main application with react. So the backend needs to have a strong API and also manage video/streaming.
WP has a good API, and that can be extended by writing custom plugins if required. I've not worked with video/streaming in WP, but given the number of plugins available, I'm pretty sure you'll find one. And there are plugins for managing custom structured data as well.
Hope that helps