Switching reason · Other · Causes churn
Agency dropped Strapi and similar CMSes for a custom backend
1 source thread · first seen 2026-09
Summary
A freelance developer found using CMSes such as Strapi painful and replaced them with custom backends to avoid depending on maintainers' direction.
- Affects
- Freelance web developer working with clients
- Workaround
- Build a custom backend with sqlite and minimal libraries
- Switched to or considered
- Custom backend
Evidence
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“It was always painful, I've never enjoyed it”