Back from vacation! Open Beta is LIVE: Test NextBlock CMS and claim a $500/yr Lifetime License 🚀

Hey Dev.to! 👋

We’re back from vacation and ready to ship! NextBlock CMS is officially opening its OPEN BETA today. 🚀

NextBlock is an open-core (AGPL), full-stack alternative to WordPress built on Next.js 16, Supabase, Tailwind, and Tiptap. It runs on strict PostgreSQL JSONB storage to achieve 100/100 Lighthouse performance by default without raw HTML sanitization overhead.

We Need Your "Breaker" Feedback 🧪

We are calling on developers, builders, and agency owners to jump in and try to break our architecture. We want your honest feedback on:

• 🐛 Bugs (Hydration errors, edge route glitches, editor quirks)
• 💡 Missing Features (Custom widgets, developer tooling, schema hooks)
• ⚡ Optimizations (Database queries, bundle size, caching adjustments)

🎁 The Reward: Lifetime Free Premium Licenses ($500/yr Value)

To show our gratitude, every developer who tests NextBlock and drops feedback in our GitHub Discussions or Discord will get a LIFETIME FREE LICENSE for our Premium Packages:

1. E-Commerce: Stripe physical goods + Freemius digital licensing + multi-currency auto-tax sync.
2. Cortex AI: BYOK OpenRouter agentic JSONB block generation & DB querying.

🚀 Try It Right Now:

• Instant Sandbox: nextblock.dev (Resets every 15 mins)
• Terminal CLI: npx create-nextblock
• GitHub Repo: github.com/nextblock-cms/nextblock

Drop your feedback in the comments below, on GitHub, or in our Discord! Let's build the ultimate DevX together. 🧱