Should you use a headless CMS? A checklist

Indie Hackers often take the leap to start a blog and produce their own content.
Organic Growth is essential when you're running on a low budget, with no VC money.

And to make those efforts pay off, you should pick the right tool for the job.
Contrary to popular belief, Wordpress is not always the best solution! It's a monolithic CMS and that means it comes with a bunch of drawbacks.

You might be better with a simpler, more lightweight Headless CMS. But you should only pick a Headless CMS if you check at least one of these criteria:

• Do you present your content on different platforms? This could include a website, a mobile app, a web app, a smartwatch app, etc.
• Do you plan to scale your content creation, and do you count on getting a lot of pageviews?
• Do you struggle with page load times, or do you want to be sure your content loads fast?
• Do you want to have custom control over how you present your content?
• Do you want to integrate your content with other parts of your business, such as CRM or marketing automation platforms?

If you checked at least one of these boxes, go for an headless CMS from the start. Here's why:

1. It’s flexible. You can move fast. Imagine you have a website and a web app. If you want to change the content on the web app with a monolithic CMS, you would have to make changes to the backend. That, in turn, consumes time from the developers - it’s much slower. With a headless CMS, you only need to change the text quickly, and voilà - it’s done!
2. It’s scalable. Both in the speed at which the content loads and the demands of a growing content strategy. You won’t have to change the backend to add the next 1,000 articles or even 10,000. Besides, a headless CMS like Notice uses lightweight technology that assures good page load performance. And that means happier users and better SEO rankings!
3. You have control. Want to change how it looks? No problem - you have total control over how it looks and feels. With a monolithic CMS, you’re often stuck with whatever templates they provide.
4. Integrations with other tools. That is the silver bullet. A headless CMS will interconnect all of your marketing stacks. CRMs, e-commerce systems, marketing automation tools - you can connect all of them, saving time and money instead of doing repetitive tasks.

If you have any questions about Headless CMS, let me know. Myself and the team at Notice are happy to help!