DEV Community: Mohsin Ali

You wanted a blog.

Mohsin Ali — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:14:05 +0000

Not a content platform degree.

Here’s what setting up a blog on a general-purpose headless CMS usually looks like:
→ Design your content model
→ Build SEO fields yourself
→ Write a rich-text renderer
→ Add a sitemap, JSON-LD, related posts
→ Set up rebuilds on every publish

Here’s ContioReach:
→ npx create-contioreach-blog

That’s the list.

We built a headless CMS that only does blogs, so you don’t have to turn a “content platform” into one.

What’s the most painful part of your current blog setup? 👇

What's your biggest monthly expense as a solo founder?

Mohsin Ali — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:15:39 +0000

Ranking #1 on Google isn't what it used to be.

Mohsin Ali — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:22:23 +0000

Ahrefs found that top-ranking pages now get 58% fewer clicks when an AI Overview shows up.

Your answer is still being read.

It's just being read inside Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity, not on your blog.

So the goal isn't only to rank anymore.

It's to be the source the answer is built from.

Three checks I'd run on any blog this week:

Answer the question in the first paragraph.
AI systems pull clear, direct answers. If yours is buried in paragraph six, someone else gets quoted.
Make the structure obvious.
One H2 per sub-question. Short sections. A meta description that says exactly what the page answers.
Make sure AI crawlers can actually reach you.
Check that your robots.txt isn't blocking bots like GPTBot or PerplexityBot. It's an easy one to miss.

Good SEO still matters.

But "good enough for Google" now has to mean "clear enough for an AI to cite."

That's why we built GEO suggestions right into the ContioReach editor, so writers catch these while they write, not after they publish.

What's one thing you've changed in your content since AI Overviews showed up?

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Mohsin Ali — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:20:28 +0000

If you could only use one growth channel for a year: SEO / blog X Cold email Ads Which one and why?

Mohsin Ali — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:51:36 +0000

Why I built a headless CMS just for blogs

Mohsin Ali — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:57:37 +0000

Hey DEV 👋 I'm Mohsin, a software engineer with 6+ years building SaaS at ContentStudio, Replug, and Linkwatcher.

Every product I worked on needed a blog, and every time we hit the same problem. WordPress was easy for writers but slow and theme-locked. Generic headless CMSs gave freedom, but meant days of schema design and building publishing workflows ourselves.

So I built ContioReach, a headless CMS made only for blogs.

It connects to any stack through a REST API:

const res = await fetch("https://cms-api.contioreach.com/v1/blogs", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.CMS_API_KEY! },
});
const { data: posts } = await res.json();

When an editor publishes, a webhook tells your site to revalidate, so content goes live without a deploy. It also has built-in SEO & GEO guidance, semantic internal linking, and Google Search Console indexing and tracking.

It's free to start: contioreach.com

I'd love to know: how do you run the blog on your projects, and what annoys you most about it? 🙌