CloudCannon's blog covers static site generators, Jekyll, and static-first websites, from a company that makes a Git-based CMS.
HN commenters mention CloudCannon as a CMS option for Jekyll sites and for clients who need editing. They also cite its series on the history of static site generators.
You might want to look into CloudCannon (http://cloudcannon.com/). It's still an early product, but the idea is pretty cool. You auth CloudCannon to your Jekyll GitHub project and it exposes a Web GUI that allows content editors to do CRUD operations. CloudCannon then commits those changes directly to the repo. Then a GitHub webhook with something like Travis CI can build the site and deploy the changes.
This is great because it allows engineers to maintain a simple static website and content editors can use a web based GUI that is kind of like WordPress (though CloudCannon has a long way to go on the usability of its web GUI). We used CloudCannon at Hillary for America for a small project. It ended up not being the right tool for the job, but I definitely think there is a use case for CloudCannon and the team behind it is super open to feedback and iteration.
Ah ok. So kinda in competition with something like https://cloudcannon.com/
I'll be honest if you want feedback - as a developer I'd prefer a solution that builds on top of an existing open source static site builder. That way us devs can carry on using the tools and deploy options we know but our less technical colleagues who just want to put up a new blog post can use the nice CMS experience.
A tool that requires we switch the entire site building process over to it is a harder sell. Sorry to be negative!
Here are some of the interesting things coming to the Bitbucket platform:
Code search: https://sourcegraph.com/
Code quality: https://www.bithound.io/, https://www.codacy.com/
Code analytics: http://stiltsoft.com/
Deployment: http://cloudcannon.com/, https://platform.sh/
Crash and exception handling: https://rollbar.com/
Rapid integration: http://www.wittified.com/
Cloud IDE: https://codeanywhere.com/, https://codeanywhere.com/
> The tech world is too big.
Had the same realization today.
Hugo was my first introduction to the idea of static site generators.
That got me thinking what other tools pre-dated it and then I found this excellent series on the evolution of SSGs [1].
The only name I recognize in there is Jekyll !!
1. https://cloudcannon.com/blog/ssg-history-1-before-jekyll/
I've been waiting on this for awhile, currently I run most sites through jekyll and for clients that need CMS options I hook them up with http://cloudcannon.com/
I've gone the WP a number of times and it's been more headaches then it's worth. Everything seems like a hack on a hack. There are things like sage/roots that make it a "little" better.
There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool.
https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/
With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content.
edit: formatting