Ha. Giant Bomb (GB) will always be close to my heart and I still go in to see Jeff and the crew occasionally. Nice to still see so much love from folks for the site.

We built it for Elastic products, which themselves are monetized. EUI itself is Apache 2.0 licensed, and fully open source.

Dave from Elastic here. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. We've been working on EUI for 2 years and it's completely Apache 2.0 licensed. There's a dedicated team of designers and engineers that work on it full time. It powers Elastic products but it can certainly be used for anything React based.

Yes. It was such a simple idea. I've always been a fan of iconic logo design that works as well in black and white as it does in color but always went to google for inspiration before. Saw your video and was like... oh, man, i need all of um.

This is all your fault.

http://snid.es/image/2F39112q3C0I

Some of these were pretty hard to find.

http://www.davesnider.org is my personal site.

It's built with http://www.webhook.com, which is my company.

Dig the site. Call to action was a bit confusing. Read the blog essentially.

Very interesting idea though. Are you actually taking beta testers for the actual app yet?

Thanks Bud :)

But yes..

1. Check - can both be easily used by clients who want to update content by themselves.
2. Check - customized or even built from the ground up.
3. Check - function like a static site.

That's our sweet spot.

1. I used Jeykll for a few years. I ended up mostly using it's Python based cousin Cactus mostly for the Django style templates.
2. Eventually I grew out of it. I really loved static sites, but that meant it was only really good for me and I couldn't use it for anything bigger where another team member would be involved. I ended up building http://www.webhook.com as a replacement. Essentially it's a static site generator like Jekyll, but still comes with an Admin so that my friends can edit the site. I also added small things like auto gzipping of assets, live reload, sass/less integration and a bunch more. If you like Jekyll and have the need for somebody else to need to edit your site, you might like us.

Full disclosure... I built it.

http://www.webhook.com

Pros:

1. Builds static sites, but still has a live CMS for clients.
2. Drag and drop form-building.
3. Cheap, $9 a month. Open source free version as well.
4. Real time CMS with a JSON / firebase backend.
5. No backend coding layer, it's just template code.

Negatives vs. heavier CMS

1. No user login outside of the CMS.
2. It's static, so things like search and forms on the frontend you'll need to do with Javascript.
3. You can't touch your nginx / apache layer. We support 301 redirects through the CMS, but that's it.
4. We're targeted at content serving websites. If you want to do user communities or something, we're not gonna be a good choice.

Other smaller CMS solutions you might like other than us.

Believe these are all PHP solutions, we're Node. They price per site, vs. our monthly plans and are targeted more towards self-hosting on your end. Generally I'd say all of them require more configuration / learning curve to get going but they are all nice in their own ways.

1. Craft CMS https://buildwithcraft.com/
2. Statamic http://statamic.com/
3. Siteleaf http://www.siteleaf.com/