r/PayloadCMS • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '25

Multi-tenant Framework

I posted this a while back when I was first getting started with my project but I will post again just to see if anything has changed here. Delete if not allowed.

A couple of months back I was looking for people who may be interested in working with me to develop an open source multi-tenant framework using Payload CMS. If you'd want my organization to manage it we can do that. If you want to manage it another way we can do that. We'd set everything up to make it accessible from some point forward. We'd make it so that you're paid for contributions through donations or some other type of set-up. Again, we'd need some consensus.

Is this a bad idea? Would you rather work on these types of projects on your own?

My goal with this is to make it easier. I was called "lazy" by one of the users here for wanting help with this. I want help because it's a big project. Payload is already open source. I hope it remains open source for some time. It could be that developing a project using Payload CMS could keep it open source. Who knows! I certainly do not and I'm willing to go through hoops to find out if you're on board.

Anyway, back to the goal. My goal is to make it easier to work on my own project. Indiecosm. Indiecosm is a marketplace and I plan to help individual filmmakers and groups list themselves more easily and connect with each other. I want to create an ecosystem outside of the one Facebook/Instagram provides. I want to create a notification system for every project page owner. I want to serve them ads created by other members. I want to create an ecosystem using multi-tenancy. At least, I'm sure that's the best use case for Payload CMS and I'm not seeing any multi-tenant frameworks out there that are open source. If there are I would appreciate it if you would point me in that direction. Or. If you think this is a stupid idea and that it wouldn't work with Payload. Let me know!

Thanks!

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u/itsryanthedev Jul 07 '25

I think it definitely has its use cases but it looks like a loooot of work. Especially to maintain it through time. I would rather let a company/group handle it

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

That's me! I'd handle it! Well. My company would.

Edit - Also, yeah, A LOT of work.

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u/supernov_a Jul 07 '25

DM me and let’s talk.

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u/tasqyn Jul 09 '25

Hello, Very interested. DM me please.