Peter Liapin

CTO at WaveAccess SL | Custom Software Development | CTO at | Founder of

[Peter Liapin @peterliapin]

The research I have been doing lately all leave me with the same conclusion:

If I were to build a next-gen #CMS for a #software/#SaaS company today, it would have to:

- be #headless by design
- support static generation, but not be trapped by static-only thinking
- make editing, preview, and publishing easy for both devs and non-technical teams
- treat everything configurable as code by design - not just content, but templates, campaigns, sequences, pipelines, automations, and more
- be AI-native from the start
- be open source, self-hostable, with SaaS as an option
- support real SaaS workflows, while staying extensible through plugins and custom logic
- include native tools for lead capture, marketing, and sales
- connect the full chain from #content -> #leads -> #sales

At that point, it stops being just a CMS. It becomes part of the path from content to customer.

What would you add? What would you challenge?

[Peter Liapin @peterliapin]

@Kyriakos_Pelek Agreed - it gives a lot of flexibility and keeps updates cleaner.

What gets more interesting to me is everything around it: lead capture, CRM, onboarding emails, payment flows, and how would you usually connect it all together?

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Following my previous post, I got even more curious about how people would approach this in practice.

If you had to build a serious website for a #SaaS or #Software product today - not a one-pager, but a real website with:

- feature pages
- blog
- docs / support content
- lead capture forms
- free trial activation
- payment flows
- transactional / onboarding emails
- multilingual support

which approach would you choose?

1. Custom build with Next.js / React or similar
2. WordPress
3. Webflow / Wix / Framer
4. #HeadlessCMS + custom frontend
5. Something else?

And more importantly - why?

[Peter Liapin @peterliapin]

I more and more feel that many small SaaS companies are just overstacked.

You want to run a product website and basic growth/sales operations, and suddenly you need:

- one tool for website / CMS
- one for CRM
- one for email automation
- one for tracking
- and then a lot of extra time, money and dev effort just to make all these things work together

Now everyone also wants #AI on top of that.

But most of these tools were not really built with AI workflows in mind from the start, so instead of simplifying things, AI often just becomes one more layer on top of the mess.

Honestly, I more and more feel like building a new #OpenSource, self-hosted #CMS + #CRM for #software / #SaaS companies, built with AI workflows in mind from day one.

Crazy idea, or just saying out loud what many teams already feel?

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@AzureSupport I’m the owner of a billing profile for multiple Azure subscriptions, but I’m locked out of the billing tenant and can’t pay outstanding invoices. Portal self-help just sends me in circles. How can I contact a real human? This is super frustrating!

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Hi @b_t_walsh, I saw @msexcel team started working on one of the most requested features (989 votes on UserVoice) - date picker. At https://t.co/8Ec3aW2qHV we designed yet the best date picker you can find for Excel right now. Do you think our expertise can be valuable for you?

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Hi @olafhubel, I saw @msexcel team started working on one of the most requested features (989 votes on UserVoice) - date picker. At https://t.co/8Ec3aW2qHV we designed yet the best date picker you can find for Excel right now. Do you think our expertise can be valuable for you?

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Непрофессионализм сотрудников #РКН, таганского суда и правительства РФ в целом - поражает! Как можно так бездумно заблокировать 18 или сколько там миллионов(!!!) IP адресов? При этом Телеграмм продолжает работать, а у нас заблокированы все рабочие сервисы развёрнутые в Амазоне!!

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Можно ли скрестить #балансборд и #гольф??? Да, если ты работаешь в офисе #WaveAccess!… https://t.co/MiEW2NYv1f

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Пока нет снега, катаем на вейкборде! Сезон 2016 открыт )
#вейкборд #кронштадт #wakeboard… https://t.co/GB74Dy7UPZ

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