Context
QuickTipss is a multi-country editorial ecosystem. Instead of bending a generic CMS, I designed a purpose-built one where the architecture serves three goals: perfect performance, AI-agent-automated publishing and data sovereignty.
Problem
Traditional CMSs couple content, presentation and publishing. Publishing across countries, with agent automation and 100/100 Core Web Vitals, requires separating each piece and connecting them through clear contracts.
Solution
- pnpm monorepo with four applications (web, admin, api, workers) and shared packages.
- Astro 5 with SSG + Server Islands: static HTML for maximum speed, server islands for what’s dynamic.
- Truly API-first: Hono with
@hono/zod-openapion Vercel Edge Functions — the OpenAPI 3.1 schema is the contract, validated with Zod at every edge. - Advanced Postgres on Supabase: queues with
pgmq, scheduled jobs withpg_cronand semantic search withpgvector. - Lighthouse CI on GitHub Actions: performance is just another test — if it drops, the build fails.
Results
The ecosystem is live in production at quicktipss.com, publishing multi-category editorial content. Publishing an article, distributing it to social networks and measuring it is an end-to-end automatable flow, with performance guaranteed by architecture rather than patched in later.