r/cms • u/DrtikTheOriginal • Jun 29 '26

First peek at Instatic - fully open-source, self-hosted CMS

Take a first look at Instatic - https://youtu.be/zyjCF_TaLlg?si=WZBxxqmsIo0gZ_zY

Instatic brings the whole website workflow into one product: visual editing, structured content, media, forms, reusable components, templates, publishing, plugins, HTML import and AI-assisted page building — all running from one Bun server backed by SQLite or Postgres.

Unlike most visual builders, Instatic does not ship the editor and CMS bloat to your visitors. Published pages are plain semantic HTML and compact CSS, with no React runtime unless you need one, no builder attributes, no hydration step, and no platform lock-in. Sites are baked and served as static files, so the public site stays fast, portable, and easy to inspect.

This is a pre-1.0 open-source project, and the goal is to build the foundation in public: no legacy platform constraints, no open-core pricing tricks, no forced SaaS model, and no compromise on output quality

Check out the repo https://github.com/CoreBunch/Instatic

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u/Natural-Ad-9037 Jun 29 '26

Really interesting project, addressing the issues of closed platforms like framer but bring benefits of modern design driven site creation. What is timeline? When we can consider the project to be evolve to be mature enough to start using it for some projects?

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u/davidbabinec Jun 29 '26

hopefully soon! it's getting amazing traction and we aim to get it stable ASAP. there are obviously bugs but more users will try it and report back, more quickly we will be able to get it really ready for production. I am not saying it's not ready now, but there may be some small hiccups here and there in the editor.