[jgh]

I'm building an API right now that I plan on monetizing so I'm looking at different simple CMS programs. This one (LonelyPage) immediately intrigued me because I don't need a lot of features. Basically people can pick a pricing plan and pay through Stripe. No portal is needed for now really other than to see their API key.

I'm not a frontend web guy at all so I'm trying to avoid doing as much of that work as possible. Wordpress seems like it would be pretty much perfect, but for the life of me I can't get it working with docker and HTTPS. All of the solutions involve editing some php files that are easy enough to edit without docker, but I would probably have to make a custom docker image to make it work in a container. Bleh.

Ghost is OK but it has like 0 customization and the themes are all 4 years old and no longer work properly.

In any case what I'm getting at is I'd happy pay like $50 or $60 for a simple CMS thing that has some themes and whatnot, but I want to host it myself. And I don't want to pay monthly for it.

Thanks for the Hugo suggestion, I'm checking it out now. I had never heard of it before.

[artpar]

I have been working on daptin [1] with similar goals (self-hosted being the top priority). It is not just a static file host and actually exposes APIs which can be used in the static sites.

For customizations, I have built "Actions" which can basically do anything (to the extent of executing javascript or call external apis) and as for themes, you can upload any static site/design/template (be it vue or react or hugo).

[1] https://github.com/daptin/daptin