Blazing Fast Websites with Payload CMS
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Payload CMS is revolutionizing the way websites are built and managed. As experts in Payload CMS implementation, we help businesses create lightning-fast, secure, and scalable websites that drive results.
Payload Developers
Unleash the Power of Payload CMS for Unparalleled Web Performance
When you're committed to creating lightning-fast, highly scalable websites, Payload CMS emerges as the premier solution. As a self-hosted, TypeScript-powered headless CMS, Payload offers unparalleled flexibility and control over your digital ecosystem.
Choose Payload CMS to future-proof your digital presence and stay ahead in the ever-evolving online landscape. Experience the perfect blend of developer-friendly architecture and content creator flexibility that only Payload can offer.
Why Headless CMS
Headless CMS
is the Future
The future is unpredictable. You will need a tech stack that is modern, adaptable, and ready for anything.
There are several ways that a headless CMS can future-proof your website:
You can change your presentation layer without changing the backend of the site, so no more cumbersome data migrations.
You can integrate with other technologies and platforms through the API, so delivering content on social, mobile, voice assistants, chatbots and many other channels is simple.
You can grow your site - even exponentially, if needed - without re-architecting the backend, so adding e-commerce or any other feature to your site is seamless.
You can feel safe and secure with NextJS’s native security, so the risk of hacks, cyberattacks, and data breaches won’t keep you up at night
Who We Are
Your Vision.
Our Makers.
The Makers’ Den team, headquartered in Berlin, brings passion and commitment to your project that you won’t find with other development companies. While we revel in technology advances and keep our skills sharp at all costs, what we really take pride in is our dedication to building bespoke, quality, bullet-proof websites that make an impact on your business.
Your site will be built with Payload headless CMS fully integrated with NextJS. We’ll use a Static Site Generator (SSG) deployment model and serve your web pages from the Vercel platform featuring global, edge location CDNs.
You’ll get the power of the most comprehensive, high-performance setup, the versatility of a headless CMS, and our expert developers helping you realize your vision every step of the way.
Risks
Now's the time for a Headless CMS
It might seem risky to deviate from your existing tech stack - especially if you’ve got multiple sites to consider - but keeping your website stuck in the past can very quickly lead to:
Constraints from your traditional CMS, losing the ability to distribute content across multiple channels easily.
Poor user experience, affecting engagement, site traffic, and brand.
Duplicate content distribution across multiple channels, wasting your team’s valuable time.
Compromises in security, making your site unnecessarily vulnerable to bad actors and hackers.
Our Clients
Our Clients.
Visionaries.
We're grateful for the incredible companies we get to work with. We share a passion for quality with our clients and look forward to the opportunity to call you one soon.
Testimonials
Makers' Den delivered a best-in-class website that exceeded our sky-high expectations. They were also terrific business partners who quickly understood the role our website played in our go-to-market motion. The team was not afraid to challenge assumptions to deliver the best results. I look forward to a long relationship with them.
Marc Allen
Head of Marketing at CEPRES
Top ReactJS Agency 2023 in Germany
5.0 stars
Website Case Studies
Projects we are proud of
CEPRES: Faster Website with Storyblok
CEPRES provides industry-leading investment technology and the world's largest private market data network to help investors. They wanted a best-in-class website to power their SEO, performance marketing and lead funnels.
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Pexip: Engage Showcase Site
Pexip Engage is an enterprise scheduling SaaS. Their customers are banks and insurance companies, and they appreciate hands on demos on how to leverage the service. We were happy to help.
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FRI:DAY: Re-architetcting a website for scale
FRI:DAY leads digital car insurance in the German market and we redid their approach to their website based on a Headless CMS and ReactJS.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The important thing is to
never stop questioning
Why do you develop websites with Storyblok as the Headless CMS?
I develop websites with Payload as the Headless CMS due to its powerful combination of flexibility and developer-friendly features. Firstly, Payload's TypeScript-first approach ensures robust code quality and improved maintainability, which is crucial for complex web projects. Secondly, its self-hosted nature provides complete control over data and infrastructure, making it an ideal choice for projects with specific security or compliance requirements.
Another significant advantage is Payload's flexible content modeling system, which allows for the creation of intricate content structures that can easily adapt to evolving project needs. This flexibility, coupled with its API-first architecture, enables seamless integration with any front-end framework or technology stack, making it versatile for various web development scenarios.
Lastly, Payload offers an excellent developer experience with features like hot-reloading for the admin UI, comprehensive documentation, and a customizable admin panel. These elements combine to enhance productivity and streamline the development process, ultimately leading to faster project delivery and easier long-term maintenance.
What are "Core Web Vitals"?
Core Web Vitals are metrics used by Google to measure the performance of every page in its search index. It uses this as one of the ranking factors to determine its position on the Search Engine Result Page. If your page is targeting competitive search terms, you will need to ensure that your page performance scores 90+ for Google to want to recommend it to its users. Google wants a fast internet for its search service to stay relevant, and everyone who wants to rank first page will need to ensure that their site performs great for all its visitors. For more info read our article on Core Web Vitals.
I want to keep my idea confidential. Will you sign an NDA with me?
Yes, we sign an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) always when a client wants it. We can do it at the very beginning before we discuss your project's details, or at another stage of the process - it's up to you.
Do I own the intellectual property rights of my application?
Yes, you are the owner of Intellectual Property rights at all times.
Where is your development team located?
We are fully remote. So while we were founded and are still based in Berlin, most developers will be remote from a central European location.
What is the pricing model?
You work with us on a Time & Materials basis. The total cost depends on the actual time the team spends on the development. You are in charge of the project’s scope and set priorities for the development team.
Time & Materials allows flexibility for you to set the direction of development depending on the users’ feedback, market situation, or opportunities that arise during the development.
For more about how we create estimates read how to estimate software projects.
What would my development team look like?
We adjust the team depending on your needs. Our speciality is low overhead teams, where every member is contributing concretely towards customer facing features. That means everyone is either doing development or design.
Roles like Project Manager, Business Analyst and QA are responsibilities which are shouldered by our business oriented developers or designers.
You may take the role of a Product Owner, making decisions on priority and scope.
Can you work as an amendment to our in-house team?
Yes. We can adapt to your tools and processes. I.e. fully integrate into your existing team.
How does the company ensure code quality and maintainability?
We follow best practices, perform code reviews, implement automated testing and continuous integration to ensure code quality and maintainability. All projects are not equal though and the level of automated QA will be determined on your need for quick feedback from the market.
Can you hand the code over to another team?
Yes. We create easily understandable and maintainable code using well known frameworks which don’t require niche knowledge.
The runtime environments we can set up in your ownership from the get-go.
What is the experience level of my team?
Every team has a partner involved in the project. Our developers have a proven track record of outsized throughput. Our culture is one of delivering features every day. That's why we prefer senior developers, but not seniors that are from slow moving enterprise environments.
How am I kept up-to-date of development?
We have fixed length iterations (usually 1 week), at the end of which you will be demoed the current progress. You will have access to team members through Slack, email and video calls and our regular meetings. In addition to this you will have access to our project management tools (Jira or Asana), which we update daily.
Why hire us?
We love what we do and only employ people with a similar mindset. You ship faster by working with a small team where each developer is a focused on your business goals. With us you get direct access to everyone. This keeps overhead low and output high.
You are in control. We offer full transparency of progress and potential problems. We keep you informed and present options, but you make the decisions.
We value our client relationships and their product visions. Meet with us to see if we share the same conviction. We might be a good fit.
