The startup era began yesterday, but today more and more entrepreneurs are daring to create great things in a short time with an ever-increasing impact . Launching startups is a fun, complex, and sometimes risky undertaking. Growth potential and a scalable business model are the primary foundations for success, but closely linked to these are your innovative capabilities, marketing skills, and, above all, your sales channels.
Personally, I believe that the startups that will best position themselves in the market without needing a large amount of capital are those that leverage the power of their collaborators with the use of new technologies and whose predominant marketing channel is the Internet.
For all the reasons mentioned above, I tend to promote open-source tools that allow startups to grow, become more innovative and efficient, and above all, expand into areas that directly impact their well-being . StartupEngine , for example, is a powerful and beautiful CMS that enables startups to launch websites quickly, allowing even those ventures without the necessary technological capabilities to establish a professional online presence.
What is StartupEngine?
It is a powerful and beautiful open-source CMS created by Lucky Rabbit , which is geared towards the creation of websites for startups that maintain an innovative design, with templates and web modeling that is purely oriented to the "standard" structure used by most startups.
With StartupEngine, we can create attractive landing pages , complemented by a helpful blog, documentation pages, and user-defined features. The tool also includes a simple yet powerful API that allows our content to be viewed from other applications and platforms.
StartupEngine provides powerful functionalities that allow us to manage users, roles, configurations, content, functions, design, and more, and also features advanced version control based on git.
A demo of the application can be viewed here, and in the following gallery we can see some of its functionalities:
StartupEngine Features?
Among the various features of StartupEngine we can highlight:
- Free, open source and beautiful.
- Easy to install, with a fairly simple Heroku deploy and easy to understand code.
- Editing and parameterizing a website using StartupEngine is extremely simple and does not require any technical knowledge, its functionalities are available upon installation, so programming new functionalities is purely optional.
- It allows the creation of pages for startups with professional finishes, including the creation of landing pages, blog posts and the documentation of our projects.
- It integrates with third-party applications and services thanks to its powerful API.
- It allows managing roles and access to cms, users, configurations, contents, functionalities, etc ..., all from an advanced graphical or command line management.
- Advanced use of version control.
- Equipped with a design using Boostrap 4 + Vue.js, which can also be complemented with templates that we can make ourselves.
- It integrates an advanced editor that will allow us to make modifications of various types.
- Integration with statistical services.
- Many other features.
The easiest way to start using StartupEngine is by deploying the application on Heroku following the step-by-step instructions on its GitHub page . You can also install it on a local server by following the steps provided there.