Adding a CMS to my new vibe-coded website

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Hi - today I launched a new V0 vibe-coded website (https://www.committedcitizens.co.uk/) to accompany a new consulting firm I’ve just launched - feedback welcome!

The next step is to integrate a headless CMS with the site. Right now I have 9 hard coded articles on the /insights page, and it’s easy enough to add new articles via V0, but over time a CMS will enable me to onboard colleagues and simplify the task of adding new content.

My question is what’s the best headless CMS to work with. I have experience of Prismic and could muddle my way through but there is no integration available. Don’t see the point in spending money on a cloud solution that costs £££ to host, which seems to rule out many of the featured CMS integrations on Vercel CMS Integrations

I have no developer experience, and in fact this site is the first time I’ve used Git and rely on the V0 chat interface to fix all issues.

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Many of the CMS integration partners offer a free tier for personal projects or small teams.

Sanity is a solid option. We have a live session with them next week if you have any questions!

Contentful, DatoCMS, Storyblok, and Builder.io are some other popular ones.

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This is vibe-coded :astonished_face: I couldn’t tell it was vibe-coded at all! I’m assuming you made all those image assets and stuff. Great site design :fire:

Adding to the CMS discussion, I’ve used Payload before (https://payloadcms.com/) and it was a great experience. I think you can self-host it too which is cool.

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Thanks #BestCodes. I wrote an article on the build and using V0 here

Imagery falls into 4 camps:

  1. Photography of me and my co-founder taken by a friend
  2. Photographs of local landscapes from Unsplash
  3. Header images for articles in /insights a mix - mainly Gen AI
  4. Illustrations purchased in a set through Drawkit, and then recoloured to match brand palette and animated (as.tsx files) in Claude

Will check out Payload - CMS is low priority currently as I can make edits easily through V0 and there are only 10 articles currently.

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I agree with @amyegan , You should go with Sanity CMS, Sanity is a solid option for you. I am using sanity CMS since last 4 years. No complaint till date.

Tech stack you should follow: Next.js + Sanity CMS + Vercel + Sendgrid + Consent.io

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Thanks :folded_hands:.

Currently I’m on the free Cookiebot plan which seems to work well - I’ve moved the settings link from an always-on floating button to a permanent link in the footer which I prefer (since the menu is anchored to the bottom of the screen on mobile).

What do you use Sendgrid for? I currently use Resend for the form data captures.

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Good to know that you’re on right path, and Resend is also good, No hard feeling for Resend. Basically, Sendgrid is alternative of Resend.

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