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24 alternatives to Gentics Mesh – An API-First headless CMS for Developers
Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers - gentics/mesh
Gentics Mesh is an open source headless CMS designed for developers who need API-first content management. It separates content from presentation, allowing developers to deliver content across multiple platforms and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Gentics Mesh – An API-First headless CMS for Developers launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Gentics Mesh - The open source headless CMS for developers - gentics/mesh
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey hackers, OP here! I've been dipping in and out of this problem space for the last few years with many of my clients. Puck sits somewhere between an old-school WYSIWYG-powered CMS and headless one, allowing content teams to author content using real React components. Traditional CMS solutions were flexible but often resulted in page that completely broke the brand guidelines. Headless CMS solutions are a fantastic way of controlling brand by restricting UI changes to developers, but makes layout changes restrictive and slow as developers often need to get involved. Puck provides a visual…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Strapi 5▲353Headless CMS designed for customization and performance
2024 · strapi.io · its alternatives →
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Next-gen headless CMS: unlock your content's full potential
2024 · hygraph.com · its alternatives →
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In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing. Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time. Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it…
2023 · vrite.io · its alternatives →
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Opengeni▲341Ship AI agents within minutes. Infrastructure for Agents
Sep 2026 · opengeni.ai · its alternatives →
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C1 by Thesys▲629Make AI apps respond with interactive UI in real-time
2025 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →
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Croct▲387We just launched Croct Templates, a way to drop CMS-powered components into your app with a single command. It's like Shadcn, but for CMS, AB testing and personalization: * Built-in support for A/B testing, content editing, and dynamic logic * Works with existing projects (Next.js, React, etc.) * Supports community libraries via `npm://`, `shadcn-ui://`, etc. Example: ```bash npx croct@latest use shadcn-ui://block/pricing-page ``` Happy to answer any questions!
2025 · croct.com · its alternatives →
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Generate custom beautiful mesh gradients
2022 · meshgradient.in · its alternatives →
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ob1 by Outerbase▲280Generate APIs, databases, and your backend with a prompt.
2023 · its alternatives →
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Payload CMS▲143Developer-first TypeScript & React headless CMS
2021 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →
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OpenUI▲322Thesys just open-sourced their generative UI rendering engine. Interesting timing given where Google a2ui and Vercel's json-render are headed. The difference worth noting: a2ui and json-render both treat JSONL as the contract between the LLM and the renderer. Thesys is betting that's the wrong primitive. Their engine uses a code-like syntax (OpenUI Lang) instead — LLM writes it, renderer executes it. The argument is that LLMs are fundamentally better at generating code than generating structured data, so you get cleaner output and ~67% fewer tokens. The broader vision seems to be a…
Mar 2026 · openui.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans. - ueberdosis/tiptap
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm a developer and long-time OSS contributor. Over the years, I've implemented tons of headless CMSs to give product and marketing teams more autonomy. But there's always been a gap with CMSs when it comes to user interfaces. I kept running into the same issues: poor developer experience, bad performance, no support for dynamic content, and needing vendors for AB testing or personalization, which just gets messy and expensive. Versioning? One change and things break or need manual fixes. Accessing your own data? Good luck unless you're ready to pay extra. So, I built a content API…
2024 · docs.croct.com · its alternatives →
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Sanity is the back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.
2017 · sanity.io · its alternatives →
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Tipe is an open-source, customizable, headless CMS. Edit content for all your apps. Preview your changes, then publish for all your users to ...
2018 · tipe.io · its alternatives →
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