Matt Billman, the Co-founder of Netlify came up with the name to try to counteract the perceptions of non-technical users that Static Sites meant sites that didn't have any kind of dynamic functionality.

He came up with the name in his living room over beers.

Neat podcast episode about the etymology here - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-...

JAMstack

Javascript APIs Markup

Coined by Matt Biilmann, Co-founder of Netlify

> Javascript APIs Markup

In other words, every single page application ever built?

The https://jamstack.org/ page lists some examples of apps that are not JAMstack. Isomorphic sites and sites built with a CMS are examples.

TakeShape, a headless GraphQL CMS | Developer Advocate, Software Engineering, DevOps, Product Management, UX Design, Customer Success | REMOTE OK

Serverless Lambda Stack on the backend. React on the front.

https://www.takeshape.io/careers/

Give TakeShape a try https://www.takeshape.io/.

I'm one of the Co-founders. We built TakeShape to be a more end to end static site CMS. TakeShape has a GraphQL API and Static Site generator that uses nunjucks for templating. You could also just as easily only use the GraphQL API with React or GatsbyJS's new native 3rd party API support.

TakeShape has built-in integration with s3, GCS, FTP and Netlify.

TakeShape comes after 7 years of running a design agency and trying to balance the best of many different styles of CMS and site creation approaches.

Did you ever try to go directly to insurance companies and pitch to offer your service through them?

Hi, I'm Mark, one of the Co-Founders of TakeShape.

TakeShape comes out of our experience running Ronik Design, a creative agency, for the past 7 years.

We set out to build a CMS that allowed us to be more expressive with our work while not having to manage a CMS on the backend.

We always wanted a tool like TakeShape so we decided to build it. TakeShape provides all the elements of a JAMStack. Flexible content modeling, GraphQL API and Static Site generation all with a simple to use web UI and CLI for developers.

Looking forward to a deck for myself and giving one to my niece!

For those curious here's the repo! https://github.com/ronik-design/love.ronikdesign.com

This project was a blast to create. Our team's slack has been full off design and dev puns for the past week.

How did you simulate the heartbeat, I am curious to look at that code or that method. Awesome job!

Thanks! It's a simple scaling animation loop, just took a little trial and error to get the timing right. You can see the code for it here - https://github.com/ronik-design/love.ronikdesign.com/blob/46...

We're built www.takeshape.io for this exact use case. Quick way to get your static site up and running with a CMS backend. If you're interested I can put you into the beta program.

May I be in the beta program please?

Me too? 3rd times the charm?

Me too beta, pretty please!