To answer that question, I need to go back a bit. It all started in 2020, when I needed a CMS for a few personal projects. Up until that point I had mostly worked with WordPress, but it didn't feel like the right fit for what I had in mind. So I started an evaluation phase, looking at various systems.
After a while I found several options that covered parts of my requirements, but none of them were quite what I wanted overall. That's when I decided to just build a CMS myself — the system I actually wanted to work with.
Headless CMS were already gaining momentum back then, and I even spent some time building a headless prototype. But for the things I wanted to build, headless was clearly overkill and would have added significantly more work per project. Don't get me wrong: headless CMS are great, just not the right solution for every problem. That pushed me towards a more traditional approach.
My goals for the first version were:
a lean and fast system
