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Building a video website — a course library, a tutorial hub, a branded video channel — runs into one hard truth fast: you should almost never host the video files yourself. Raw video is huge,...
Building a directory site — a curated list of tools, agencies, restaurants, or SaaS products — has a specific shape most content platforms fight against. You need structured entries (name, category,...
A marketplace is a transaction engine plus a content layer — keep content in a CMS, not the engine.
A status page must stay up when your app is down, which means separate infrastructure.
A web app needs a CMS for everything around the product — marketing, blog, docs — not the product itself.
A PWA needs content over a clean, cacheable API — exactly what a REST headless CMS provides.
A SaaS marketing site needs marketing autonomy, a content API, and SEO — without dragging in app code.
A release-notes page needs dated entries, publish autonomy, and an API.
Put a headless CMS behind your static site so the build stays static and editors get a real interface.
In headless commerce, keep content out of your commerce engine and in a headless CMS.
A content hub needs taxonomy, search, scheduling, and multi-channel delivery from its CMS.
"Should I use a CMS or a static site generator?" is one of those questions that sounds like a choice and mostly isn't. The honest answer is that they solve different problems, they often...