👋 Introduce yourself

Hi everyone, I am Thomas Horak based between Munich and London. I run All Shapes - a design and development company for bespoke software. We most often use CloudCannon for our content-creator clients who are building their new platforms.

Great to meet y’all and happy to connect - [my linkedin] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-horak/) and if you’re interested in how tools we build impact culture you can follow along for the articles and podcast on my substack.

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  • Howdy I’m Ed and I’m based in Sacramento, CA.
  • I use CloudCannon as a CMS and server for my Jekyll sites.
  • I was with Jekyll when it came out but I’m currently researching my next SSG so that I can continue to take Wordpress’ marketshare, site by site.
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Kia ora koutou! :waving_hand:

My name is Adon, and I’m a developer on the Enterprise Team. Before joining CloudCannon I spent most of my working life in the education sector, teaching various aspects of programming and technology. After awhile I felt a change was in order, and I wanted to put to rest that old adage about “those who can’t do, teach”! :grin:

What else do you want to know? I’m originally from :canada: but kiwi as now, bro. :kiwi_fruit:

Two small kids (and a third on the way!) keep me pretty busy at home, but I wish I was playing :video_game: or playing :musical_keyboard: again in my spare time…

erm… I used to have a cat… :cat:

(all right, wrap it up…)

See you round the boards! :eyes:

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Hi Everyone, I am Amanda - Web Developer and Designer in South Africa :waving_hand: I use Jekyll. I use Cloudcannon for my and client sites, and hopefully soon (2 years in the making at this point :face_with_peeking_eye: :face_with_peeking_eye: :face_with_peeking_eye: ) hosting website templates too.

I am on Instagram and LinkedIn [Business (Rielle Digital Studio)]

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Hello everyone! :waving_hand:

Shovan here—I run a code house called SCube, based in Bristol, UK with team of excellence based in Banglore, India.

We collaborate with marketing agencies to build websites for their clients. We primarily use CloudCannon along Next.js, Jekyll, Github Pages etc.

We were fortunate to work with @Christopher_Wingate. and proud to be one of the early adopters of Bookshop .

It’s great to see a growing community around CloudCannon. I look forward to connecting and sharing insights with you all!

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Hey there!

Nicolas from Clever Age (like Olivier above), in France :france: .

I’ve setup a :cloudcannon: CloudCannon/ :11ty: Eleventy project for a client with a shared repository of Bookshop components and templates/styles, with multiple sites using Site Mounting to get them. We’ve put everything in a template site/repo, so our client can create a new site without our help and no technical knowledge. This is awesome.

I’m really looking forward to being able to use CloudCannon for other projects.

On the personal side, I already have multiple :11ty: sites, I’ve been loving it since its first alpha versions. :heart_eyes:

On one of them, I’m even using Pagefind for the search engine. :grin:

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Hi All.

I’m Viv, a developer/designer from the North Island of New Zealand.

I’ve been using CloudCannon for a few years now. I’ve done a lot of projects with it and currently it’s the only CMS that I use. Since I work alone, it seems right to avoid spreading myself too thin working with numerous tools. I’m loving the level of support I get from the CloudCannon crew and it’s good to see that there is so much ongoing development of the platform.

I started my SSG journey with Jekyll, but now use Eleventy.

I’m looking forward to seeing how others are incorporating CloudCannon into their work.

Cheers.

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Ahoy!

I’m Kim, from Maine, and I’m a freelancer who’s been with Cloudcannon since way back when it supported Dropbox (I still miss that integration from time to time).

I use :cloudcannon: for developing and hosting static sites for clients, as well as personal projects and prototyping. I spend my time converting coffee into :html:, :css:, and :javascript:, along with a sprinkling of lightweight libraries as needed.

My latest site on CC is my retro game homebrew development portfolio, ozymandias.lol — give it a whirl if you’ve got an Atari or an emulator handy. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get back to working on Golf in Space :ringed_planet::person_golfing:

Thanks for curating this community. I’m excited to learn more SSGs after having dipped my toes into the :jekyll: waters. :astro: looks compelling, but I’m open to hearing what others like about their favorite platform (as long as it’s not WordPress).

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Hi everyone - I’m Sonja. Although my title is Senior Content Designer, it’s really just a fancy term for Technical Writer :slightly_smiling_face: I work for PaperCut Software in Melbourne (Australia), mainly adding to and updating the manuals in the Help Center on PaperCut’s website. Look forward to being part of this community! :grinning_face:

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@Gio that is so awesome to hear - our internal teams built Venture so pretty stoked to hear from people finding it useful :sparkles:

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Kia ora koutou! Ko Marlia taku ingoa - I’m based down the bottom of Aotearoa and hang out in :cloudcannon: our Services team.

Am loving seeing some familiar names in the thread - I’m an emoji addict so thought I better introduce myself before I start hyping up everyone’s posts - cannot wait to put more faces to names and help out with projects you might have on the go :rocket:

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So cool to see you in here Amanda :star_struck:

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You and @Ella will get on like a house on fire @Sonja_McShane :fire: :sparkles:

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Hello everyone!

I’m Christian, living in Gozo (go search it :slight_smile: ). A freelance web developer mainly focusing on marketing websites. And I’ve started using CloudCannon when Jekyll was the only supported SSG. Which I still love.

I’m mostly using CloudCannon for local businesses, and given a choice I’m probably never going to use anything else.

Nowadays I spend most of my working time in React and NextJS repos.

Looking forward to chat with all you awesome people :raising_hands:

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Hi everyone,

I’m Harry, a freelance designer/developer from London, England, building marketing sites for SMB clients here in the UK and over in the US.

I mostly work solo, so I’m always on the hunt for reliable tools that make managing and maintaining websites easier. For the last couple of years I’ve been all in with :hugo: and :cloudcannon: for this reason.

I’m currently working on Roofsimple and Solarsimple, and I’m about to start a redesign/build of BuxtonThreeTwo. I write a fair bit about Hugo on my personal site and this year I plan on write more about my experiences with Cloudcannon.

Outside of work I like to go running :man_running: and bouldering :person_climbing:. I’m also a real skiing :skier: fanatic, though sadly there isn’t much snow here in London!

Looking forward to meeting more of the community and seeing what everyone is building with Cloudcannon.

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Hello everyone! :waving_hand: My name is Katie and I’m a Senior Web Developer at Astronomer. We use :cloudcannon: to build, host and serve as CMS for a couple of projects here including our marketing site and docs.

My current SSG of choice is :astro:. I’m also learning :11ty: and might make that my go-to soon.

So excited about this community launching! :party_popper:

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Looking forward to your Practical Hugo course, Harry — I’ll include a link to it in my next :hugo: newsletter, which should be going out next week.

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Hi all! I’m Timmy Brown, I do in-house marketing at Blueprint Finance where we use Cloudcannon with 11ty. I’m also planning on switching my other work hts-110 to cloudcannon in the future.

I’m enjoying the speed and more transparent logical approach it has compared to wordpress/dynamic sites.

:slight_smile:

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Hi all! My name is Joost van der Schee and I have been using CloudCannon for almost 10 years now. I have built hundreds of websites for it. I run jekyllcodex and hugocodex and my company website is www.usecue.com. Ask me anything about Hugo.

Happy coding!

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Hey everyone! :star_struck: what a great group of peeps!

I’m Tim, working at PaperCut in Support Operations in Melbourne, Australia. Some Zendesk stuff, some website content, and other bits and bobs.

Currently using CloudCannon for most website changes, including manuals and KB articles.

Oh and I have a tiny dog called Spruce :dog: :laughing:

Looking forward to communitying! :heart:

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