Maybe Cockpit CMS could be used? Self hosted CaaS style CMS and seems to have a REST interface. I wonder if it could be used with static generators? http://getcockpit.com/. I Have been thinking about this for a while and would love to see it work with metalsmith.io, Assemble.io or maybe even my favourite harp.js.
I'm curious, by really simple are you referring to using a traditional out of the box CMS like Wordpress?
This works great for us as a digital agency because we usually have multiple projects going on at once that need to perform at scale immediately (traffic from large brand media buys and sharing on social platforms), so we needed tools to be able to manage static content.
If you have different ideas on how to allow non-developers to manage a static site (without having to edit our code repo), I'd love to chat :-).
+1, paying 99/month for the first non-free layer of contentful is defintely not cheap, and the free tier won't get you too far.
Ideally what I'd like to see for a small team is to run a $5 digital ocean instance that does at least a mediocre job of managing assets in a database and triggering the static export of the site. Unfortunately I haven't found anything that a non-savvy user would consider as useful. Any idea for that (or alternative for contentful)?
This discussion got me thinking and I started working on a side project to do exactly that. Let me know if you'd like to be notified when it's ready for beta. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested
