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Any WaaS-businesses there using Laravel? Trying Statamic as a WaaS

Hi, after having some success with Wordpress MS as a Website-as-a-service platform with paying clients, I am looking for a more robust framework (Laravel) to develop a better WaaS-platform.

A few weeks ago I tested the CMS Statamic for the first time, and immediately fell in love. But they only support multi domain, not multi tenants....

Then I spent a couple of hours connecting Tenancyforlaravel with Statamic, and now I have a working prototype for a WaaS-setup in Laravel, where each tenant/domain can have their own Statamic dashboard with separate blueprints, entries and templates. With just files, no DB. One single Laravel installation. And by using the Tenancyforlaravel's SaaS boilerplate the registration and domain mapping would already be taken care of.

My idea here is that this WaaS-setup could be flexible enough to handle both less- and high-demanding clients (which was my main headache with WP multi site):

The tenants who asks for customisation more than the standard templates can do, can keep the same entries, we can add a few more fields to a custom blueprint and we can disconnect them from the central templates create tailor made templates for them.

So it's basically a WaaS-platform for MOST types kind of websites - Not just simple/basic sites.

Have anyone here tried to create a WaaS with Statamic?
Or a WaaS with Laravel in general?
Does this seem like a good setup, from a technical perspective?

on October 4, 2022
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    Hey Vidar - I'd love to chat to see how you did this?

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      Hi, thanks for asking. I fell in love with Sanity instead and I abandoned this idea. But I did some progress, I made a half working prototype, found out that it was simpler than I expected. If I was going to follow up a WaaS project I think Statamic is a good fit. Let me know if you would like the source code for the demo.

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        Hi Vidar,

        I'd also be very interested in seeing how you did this. I'd like to create a scalable WaaS platform that can generate static sites.

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        Hi Vidar - I would also be interested in seeing a copy of the source code (even if it is only semi-functional). I have been considering switching one of our products over to leverage Statamic, but multi-tenancy is a core requirement. I haven't started to do my only feasibility study yet, but would definitely be interested in taking a look at your approach.

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        Hey absolutely that would be awesome if you could share the source code! :)

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    Hope I can expand the scope of the question

    Outsource the tech if you can

    https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-went-from-0-18-000-mrr-in-90-days-solo-webflow-productized-service-0ea99d76fd

    Focus on adding value to your customers.