[Journey] Building a better wheel

The wheel most of us use currently is wordpress. I myself have a few websites built upon this very CMS.

I hate wordpress with a passion though.

It lacks the features of complex web apps and is overall slow compared to the newer technologies.

So for my next project, which I won't give too many details away about, will be built with a new age CMS.
Now there isn't that much support for the CMS I would like to use and there is not application for the platform that I want to use that will accommodate the style of website I want to create.

Basically the deck is stacked and not in my favor, but that is fine. I've done this sort of thing before, and I have no problem doing it again.

So the functionality I need on my website is fairly simple except for the secret sauce that will only be refereed to as the secret sauce.

Intended CMS: Apostrophe CMS (opensource nodejs CMS)

Features intended:

[X] Sign in with google/facebook/twitter (built in w/ one of developers extensions)
[X] Blog platform (built in to CMS)
[ ] Make a sick theme for the website
[ ] Poisoned Yeti's Secret Sauce


Features of the sauce:
Aysnc load new content based on user input and elements from a database (fairly simple)
Keep track of the number of spoonfuls each user can currently eat (4 at a time is my initial thought but we'll see)
Referral system for users( gain X reward for bringing new users)
Contest system


Steps for cooking the sauce:

1. We will being by making things load in based off user interaction.
2. Keep track of the actions made by users and log them into our database (each user has field in their db entry about how the eat the sauce)
3. Make referral link generator (plenty of examples online so hopefully not too difficult)
4. Make reward system for referrals, again not hard(hopefully)
5. Make system to implement contests w/ prizes for doing X actions with the sauce during Y time frame.


Then I hope to have a complete website with an awesome way of going about my intended website style. If you would like more specfics for most of you thats too damn bad.

I am also open to help with the sick theme needed. I'm more of a program the back end kind of guy so any front end friends are welcome.

Until then though, lets just get to work.

Okay, so instead of apostrophe I'll be swinging over to ghost cms. It's more fleshed out and has a few more nice features.

Good luck with your journey.

Alright so I scrapped using a cms completely and built an app platform for my own personal use using nodejs and mongodb. Modules include express, passportjs, and a few database integration tools.
Built with typescript.
Updates to follow. Hopefully.