This is not WordPress
This site, and the content management system behind it, is not built with WordPress, or Wix, or Squarespace.
This is my own custom publishing system, built for my own purposes, the way I want, with real publishing flow from draft to staging to production. It is nearly free to host. I own all the files, the software, and the content so I can change it or move it whenever and however I want. It is human-first and AI friendly so I can review, revise, or auto-draft content based on my own notes or past content. I have full revision history of the content AND the site's code. It's backed up to multiple locations by design...
It effortlessly beats the pants off of my high-performance WordPress sites (I'm hosting about 30 WP sites on a high-performance cloud server...but now that seems silly.)
I built it for myself, with my own stack of AI agentic coding tools, and it uses some of the best modern open source software available.
The tech stack
I'll update this later with more info, but for now:
- Static Astro output served through Cloudflare Workers Static Assets
- A narrow Cloudflare Worker API for contact form intake
- A local repo-native CMS launched with
./7cms - Tiptap for the writing surface
- A local database for drafts, CRM-lite contact intake, backup manifests, and workflow state
- Git-backed publishing with readable source files and static build output
- Backup export/import for site files and local database state
- I'm also experimenting with many other methods of publishing.
This will be included with Core7 OS!
Core7 OS is a new concept in agentic business software that I've been working on. This is the first time I've mentioned it publicly.
Tools I used to build it
Built with mostly using T3Code (Thanks Theo, Julian and friends!) and using models from Anthropic and OpenAI with a little persuasion from my own "prompt engineering." I also use VSCode (switched back from Cursor, mostly because PlatformIO for embedded programming is happier in VSCode.)