Show HN: Masthead – A free, hosted, open source Hugo alternative

Category: web-framework

Tags: publishing-platform, multi-tenant, elixir

Score: 5.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 6, Documentation: 6, Utility: 5)

Masthead is an open-source, multi-tenant publishing platform built with Elixir and Phoenix LiveView, allowing users to manage unlimited blogs and small business sites from a single account with custom subdomains and automatic HTTPS. It offers Markdown and HTML editors, image library, built-in blog pages, and three themes, with a focus on simplicity and self-hosting. The project is interesting for its use of Elixir's concurrency model in a content management context, though it currently has low adoption and limited features compared to established alternatives.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://masthead.site · Elixir · 6 stars

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