Control-Plane for
Code-First websites

every time i start building a new product, the same problem shows up — i need blogs for SEO, docs for users, changelogs to show momentum. and every time, the tooling around markdown-first content sites just isn't there.

the editing experience is either ugly, outdated, or clearly built for a different era. and the workarounds aren't better — i'd end up writing in notion or google docs, then manually copy-pasting into markdown files, fixing formatting, committing, pushing. it worked, but it was slow and tedious for something i wanted to do every week.

i wanted something that felt modern and easy to use — something where i could focus on SEO and content experiments, not on configuring a CMS or copy-pasting between apps.

i also wanted a conversational way to publish — brainstorm inside ChatGPT or Claude, draft content in a real editor, and ship it while keeping my tone and my taste in what goes out. none of the existing tools gave me that workflow.

and the alternatives? wordpress is a whole universe of plugins, themes, and maintenance i didn't want. cloudcannon runs about $49/month per site. even the SEO autopilot tools like outrank want $99/month — and you give up control over what gets published.

so i built gitcms. a markdown-first, repo-backed CMS where everything stays in your git repo as plain files you own.

i built it for myself first — but it turns out the same problems hit solo builders shipping their own sites, startup teams trying to scale content, agencies managing client sites, and freelancers who need something simple they can hand off. so i made it work for all of them.

for $49 once, not another monthly subscription. i use it every day on my own site. if something breaks, you're emailing the person who wrote the code.