We Open Sourced Sitepins Git-Based CMS

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It’s been about a year since we launched the Sitepins beta in this forum.

We didn’t do any heavy promotion. First, we built it for ourselves, then later shared it with our existing audience, posted 2/3 times on the Hugo and Astro forums. 1,800+ people signed up, and many of them use it regularly.

Sitepins exists to make it easy for founders and developers to hand off sites built with static site generators like Hugo, Next.js, Astro and now AI builder sites like Claude Code to their non-technical teammates and clients.

We waited to make the product stable enough to open source it so that developers can self-host it with minimum effort.

We’re happy to share it’s now stable. (There still might be bugs. It’s true for any software. If you find one, please let us know, or even better, contribute and help make it better.)

There is also a cloud version with a free plan for those who don’t want to self-host and want to support a small bootstrap team.

If you’re already a Sitepins user, nothing has changed for you. Open source adds a self-hosting path for people who want it.

There is a live interactive demo at demo.sitepins.com if you want to explore (no account needed). There are 3 projects already added. You can explore all the features Sitepins offers.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Here is the Github repository.

Would appreciate it if you give it a star and share it with someone who might find it useful.

Thank you.

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Congrats on this step — open-sourcing after the product is stable rather than on day one seems like the right order, and it’s good to see a self-host path that doesn’t require the cloud version to exist.

Curious how you’re thinking about the split now: does the cloud plan stay the funding mechanism, or do you expect most new users to self-host?

We’re on a similar journey from a different angle — building a local-first CMS/SSG focused on sovereignty. Single binary, Jinja2-compatible templates (MiniJinja), no database. Standing on Hugo’s shoulders for a lot of the design.

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Thanks for sharing and open sourcing it! This might be a viable option, after I test it out, for recommending to friends who have interest in Hugo but are not keen on using a code editor.

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Glad to hear you found it useful.