For a while, I've had a setup using NocoDB, n8n, DevLink, and Next.js. It worked, but it always felt like I was stitching together a handful of great tools just to publish content for my personal sites.
Adding content meant opening NocoDB, dealing with no rich text editing, uploading images, letting n8n automate downloading and committing images to GitHub, and then hoping everything synced correctly. It feels quite a bit more complicated than it needed to be.
Static Draft has basically solved all of these "problems", read more about it in my previous post, but it's a local CMS / Devlink x Next.js static site builder application I'm working on.
A good example is my Year of Components (YOC) project, where I publish a new Webflow component basically every day. Now I simply open Static Draft, create a new YOC entry, add the title, write the content, drag in an image, and click Push to GitHub. That's it.
The content is saved, the images are handled automatically, everything is committed to GitHub, and the site is ready to deploy automatically on Netlify, a build hasn't failed once yet. I never have to jump between multiple services or think about automations running in the background.
It's still early, but this is exactly the workflow I wanted when I started building it. If you'd like to try Static Draft, or if you're curious about how it works, feel free to reach out.