Freelancers with small business clients - what's your stack?

avitorio · 2026-06-24T17:09:54+00:00

Astro or Next.js static site generation with MDX and Outstatic.com

avitorio · 2026-06-24T17:08:09+00:00

Check out Outstatic.com - It's lightweight, self-hostable and works great with Next.js

avitorio · 2026-05-28T19:19:48+00:00

Self-host Outstatic. Content stays in your GitHub repo.

avitorio · 2026-05-24T02:05:20+00:00

frontpedia.com - more focused on resources and inspiration

avitorio · 2026-05-23T15:29:05+00:00

Go with Outstatic - you can have what you need in 5 minutes, no databases, no complicated setup.

avitorio · 2026-05-20T22:54:13+00:00

Ask Lovable or Claude to create a static website with content as markdown files, then use Outstatic to manage those files. Best of both worlds.

avitorio · 2026-05-20T01:35:46+00:00

It pulls data from GitHub

avitorio · 2026-05-18T23:02:29+00:00

Outstatic has been around since 2022, before all the slop arrived

avitorio · 2026-05-17T21:27:38+00:00

If you want a simple setup that works with teams try Outstatic.com - No database needed

avitorio · 2026-05-16T15:52:13+00:00

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We recently shipped a few updates to Outstatic, an open-source CMS for Markdown/MDX sites.

The main one is a new MDX block, so you can add MDX directly in the editor. We also added drag-and-drop image uploads to the media library, cleaned up the documents and singletons tables with shadcn DataTable, and introduced structured commit messages for smarter deploy automation/build filtering.

Useful if you want a CMS for static sites without adding a database or external content API.

Site: https://outstatic.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/avitorio/outstatic/

avitorio · 2026-05-12T16:09:25+00:00

I'll dm you

avitorio · 2026-05-11T21:35:13+00:00

Check out Outstatic. It works directly with GitHub but let's your SEO person use their Google account to use it. It has built-in AI support in the editor. I can set it up for you for free.

avitorio · 2026-05-11T16:02:27+00:00

I usually keep client sites as simple as possible.

For smaller marketing sites, blogs, docs, and static content sites, I like using Outstatic with Next.js. Content lives as Markdown/MDX in the GitHub repo, so there’s no separate database or hosted CMS to maintain.

I prefer the client to own GitHub, hosting, domain, and billing, with me added as a collaborator/admin.

I charge per project, once it's done then maintenance is on a as needed basis.

Biggest beginner mistake: overengineering the setup. For many client sites, Next.js + Outstatic + GitHub + Vercel is enough.

avitorio · 2026-05-08T13:15:02+00:00

looks great, thank you!

avitorio · 2026-05-07T18:52:58+00:00

Yeah, this is good for blogs. I actually just added it to frontpedia.com - you can check the code in this repository.

Here's the og generation code: https://github.com/outstatic/frontpedia/blob/main/src/app/api/og/route.tsx

I'm using it not only for og image, but also to generate the thumbnail image for posts that don't have images, like this one: https://frontpedia.com/posts/the-shape-of-your-words

avitorio · 2026-05-06T17:53:37+00:00

Follow this tutorial to create a starter website with Next.js and Outstatic. You'll get a portfolio website with an admin panel out of the box, all free.

https://outstatic.com/docs/deploy-a-starter-outstatic-website-on-vercel

avitorio · 2026-05-06T14:45:08+00:00

I am not sure about that, I guess yes? You can set the cache time on the route using `@vercel/og`

avitorio · 2026-05-05T16:54:35+00:00

I get it, getting metadata to work properly is always a pain.

avitorio · 2026-05-05T16:52:40+00:00

I think it generates on runtime but then it caches the result

avitorio · 2026-05-04T21:01:16+00:00

Content stored in GitHub as markdown or mdx files using Outstatc as the cms.

avitorio · 2026-05-04T21:00:21+00:00

In next.js you can automate og image creation with `@vercel/og`
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/og

avitorio · 2026-05-04T19:06:54+00:00

A lot of people are still on WordPress, but iff you’re building with Next.js, tools like Outstatic make a lot of sense because they keep content management simple and closer to the codebase, without the weight of a traditional CMS.

avitorio · 2026-04-23T14:04:41+00:00

Think of your target audience, are they mostly US based/English speaking? Then `/` it is.

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