CoreBunch/Instatic

Own your site. Love building it.

A self-hosted CMS where the visual editor, content engine, and publisher all live in one Bun server — and the pages it ships are clean enough to read in view-source.

Watch the introductory video about Instatic on YouTube.

A modern website usually means assembling a stack: a headless CMS, a framework, a host, a form service, an analytics vendor, an image CDN — each with its own bill, dashboard, and 2 a.m. outage. Instatic is the opposite bet. One Bun server holds the whole thing — the canvas editor, the content engine, media, auth, forms, plugins, and the publisher — and you run it wherever you like, backed by SQLite or Postgres.

What comes out the other end is the part most builders quietly compromise on: plain semantic HTML and compact CSS, with none of the editor's machinery left behind in the page. No framework runtime, no builder attributes, no div soup. The site loads like a static file because, most of the time, it is one.

Railway is the fastest way to get Instatic live. Pick a template, hit the button, wait about two minutes. That's it. It generates the secret keys, attaches the storage volume, and sets up the health checks on its own. You never open a terminal.

One minute to live. Unedited.

SQLite is the right default for most sites. Reach for Postgres when you've got a team of authors or want managed database backups.