Hamed Pakdaman

Web Development

Build an Astro Content Site with UnfoldCMS in 30 Minutes

Step-by-step tutorial: Astro 5 + UnfoldCMS via the Content Layer API. Type-safe build-time fetching, Cloudflare Pages free-tier deploy, 90% less JavaScript than the Next.js equivalent. 30 minutes from git clone to live.

Jun 8, 2026 · 11 min read

CMS

Self-Hosted vs SaaS CMS: True 5-Year TCO Breakdown (2026)

Honest 5-year TCO breakdown for self-hosted vs SaaS CMS with real 2026 pricing from Contentful, Sanity, Webflow, Storyblok, and current Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS rates. SaaS rose 12.2% in 2025 (5x inflation). Migration break-even math, decision tree by team scale.

Jun 8, 2026 · 10 min read

CMS

CMS for Indie SaaS Founders: 4 Honest Picks (2026)

The honest CMS picker for indie SaaS founders shipping marketing sites, blogs, and docs on tight budgets. Four options compared on cost, speed-to-ship, editor UX, scale ceiling — flat-file Markdown, Statamic Solo, UnfoldCMS, Webflow.

Jun 8, 2026 · 10 min read

CMS

Best Laravel CMS Options in 2026: 4 Serious Picks

Laravel CMS in 2026 is a real category with four genuinely different picks: UnfoldCMS, Statamic, OctoberCMS, and Filament-plus-custom-code. Honest comparison of stack, storage, admin design, and when each one wins.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Self-Hosted CMS

Open-Source CMS Built on shadcn/ui: What Source-Available Means

A shadcn-based CMS can ship under MIT (Payload), AGPL (Directus), or source-available (UnfoldCMS). Which license matters depends on whether you self-host, fork, redistribute, or run multi-tenant. The honest licensing picture, plus when each one fits.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

shadcn/ui in Production: 1 Year, 51 Components, 210 Admin Pages — Lessons

A year of building UnfoldCMS on shadcn/ui — 51 components, 210 admin pages, real customers. The architecture lessons that survived production: composition over configuration, owning the code, forms as primitives, tables as data.

Jun 8, 2026 · 11 min read

CMS

The Shortest Path from shadcn Dashboard Template to a Real CMS

A shadcn dashboard template ships the visible part of a CMS in 10 minutes. The next 35-50 days are spent building everything you don't see — auth, roles, media, scheduler, SEO. Honest scope, shortest pragmatic path, when to bail on the DIY route.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Web Development

Build a Blog CMS with Next.js + shadcn/ui in 30 Minutes

Step-by-step tutorial: spin up a working blog CMS with Next.js front-end and shadcn/ui admin in 30 minutes. No Docker, no cloud account, just PHP + Node + MySQL. Real admin (51 shadcn components, 205 pages), real public API.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Headless CMS

shadcn CMS vs Payload: Honest Admin UX Comparison

UnfoldCMS and Payload share an audience and almost nothing else. UnfoldCMS is a Laravel monolith with admin built on shadcn/ui. Payload is headless Node.js. Side-by-side on architecture, stack, hosting, pricing — and where each one wins.

Jun 8, 2026 · 9 min read

Headless CMS

I Tested 7 CMS Options for shadcn/ui — Here's What Works

Honest ranking of 7 CMS options for shadcn/ui projects. Only one is built fully on shadcn — the rest are headless with bring-your-own-shadcn front-ends, or admin templates without CMS guts.

Jun 8, 2026 · 13 min read

Headless CMS

Is There a CMS Built with shadcn? Yes — Here's What We Made

The direct answer to 'is there a CMS built with shadcn/ui' — a production CMS using 51 real shadcn components across 205 admin pages, with three themes from one codebase.

Jun 7, 2026 · 10 min read

Web Development

Multi-Calendar Dates in Laravel: Jalali and Hijri with Carbon

How to handle Jalali (Solar Hijri) and Hijri (Islamic) calendars in a Laravel app using MultiCarbon — an open-source package that extends Carbon directly, so every Carbon method keeps working.

Jun 1, 2026 · 8 min read