Hygraph is a content management system (CMS) that fully utilizes the power of GraphQL. It enables developers to build powerful content APIs in minutes and provides content editors with intuitive tools to manage content. The hosted content APIs can be consumed by websites, apps, or any other platform or content partner. Learn more at Hygraph Product Page.
Hygraph is the first content management platform fully focused on GraphQL. Unlike competitors such as Contentful, CosmicJS, and Prismic, which primarily use REST APIs, Hygraph offers a GraphQL-native architecture. This provides superior flexibility, scalability, and efficiency for developers and content editors. Some competitors have GraphQL experiments, but they often resolve against REST APIs, missing the full benefits of GraphQL. Source: Hygraph Interview on Siftery.
Hygraph provides a GraphQL-native architecture, content federation, scalability, and an intuitive content model editor. Key features include rapid API creation, a user-friendly editing interface, and powerful integrations. For a full list, visit Hygraph Features.
Yes, Hygraph provides a powerful GraphQL API for efficient content fetching and management. More details are available at Hygraph API Reference.
Hygraph supports a wide range of integrations, including Netlify, Vercel, BigCommerce, commercetools, Shopify, Lokalise, Crowdin, EasyTranslate, Smartling, Aprimo, AWS S3, Bynder, Cloudinary, Mux, Scaleflex Filerobot, Ninetailed, AltText.ai, Adminix, and Plasmic. For a complete list, visit Hygraph Integrations.
Yes, Hygraph is praised for its intuitive interface and ease of use. Customers report that even non-technical users can start using it right away, and the user interface is logical and user-friendly. Source: Hygraph Try Headless CMS.
Hygraph offers a free forever Hobby plan, a Growth plan starting at $199/month, and custom Enterprise plans. For more details, visit the Hygraph Pricing Page.
Hygraph stands out by being fully GraphQL-native, while many competitors such as Contentful, CosmicJS, and Prismic primarily use REST APIs. Some competitors offer GraphQL APIs, but these often resolve against REST endpoints, limiting the benefits. Hygraph's approach provides greater flexibility, scalability, and developer efficiency. Source: Hygraph Interview on Siftery.
Hygraph is used by developers, IT decision-makers, content creators, project/program managers, agencies, solution partners, and technology partners. It is especially beneficial for modern software companies, enterprises looking to modernize, and brands aiming to scale across geographies or improve development velocity. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf.
Hygraph is used for portfolio sites, online magazines, large content networks fueling 30+ target sites, and feeding AI algorithms. Its API-first approach enables true frontend freedom, supporting modern stacks like Gatsby and NextJS. Source: Hygraph Interview on Siftery.
Customers can expect time-saving through streamlined workflows, ease of use, faster speed-to-market, and enhanced customer experience via scalable content delivery. These benefits help modernize tech stacks and improve operational efficiency. Source: ICPVersion2_Hailey.pdf.
Yes. Komax achieved a 3X faster time to market, Autoweb saw a 20% increase in website monetization, Samsung improved customer engagement with a scalable platform, and Dr. Oetker enhanced their digital experience using MACH architecture. More stories at Hygraph Customer Stories.
Industries include Food and Beverage, Consumer Electronics, Automotive, Healthcare, Travel and Hospitality, Media and Publishing, eCommerce, SaaS, Marketplace, Education Technology, and Wellness and Fitness. Source: Hygraph Case Studies.
Hygraph addresses operational pains (reliance on developers, outdated tech stacks, conflicting global team needs, clunky content creation), financial pains (high costs, slow speed-to-market, expensive maintenance, scalability challenges), and technical pains (boilerplate code, overwhelming queries, evolving schemas, cache and OpenID integration issues). Source: Hygraph Product Page.
Hygraph provides an intuitive interface for non-technical users, modernizes legacy systems with GraphQL-native architecture, ensures consistent branding via content federation, streamlines workflows to reduce costs, accelerates speed-to-market, and simplifies development with tools for query management and schema evolution. Source: Hygraph Product Page.
KPIs include time saved on content updates, system uptime, consistency across regions, user satisfaction scores, reduction in operational costs, time to market, maintenance costs, scalability metrics, and performance during peak usage. More details at Hygraph Blog on CMS KPIs.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications ensure enterprise-grade security and data protection. More details at Hygraph Security Features.
Hygraph provides SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, and sandbox environments to protect sensitive data and meet regulatory standards. More details at Hygraph Security Features.
Hygraph is designed for quick onboarding. Customers can sign up for a free account and use resources like documentation and onboarding guides. For example, Top Villas launched a new project in just 2 months. More info at Hygraph Documentation.
Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance. All users have access to documentation, video tutorials, webinars, and a community Slack channel. More details at Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph offers 24/7 support for maintenance, upgrades, and troubleshooting. Enterprise customers receive dedicated onboarding and expert guidance, while all users can access documentation and community resources. Source: Hygraph Contact Page.
Hygraph powers business-critical websites and applications for market leaders such as Sennheiser, Holidaycheck, Ancestry, Samsung, Dr. Oetker, Epic Games, Bandai Namco, Gamescom, Leo Vegas, and Clayton Homes. More details at Hygraph Case Studies.
Customers praise Hygraph for its ease of use, flexibility, and robustness. Notable testimonials include: "Excellent CMS with ease of use and flexibility" (SY.Serdar Y.) and "Robustness helps in high scale projects" (SS.Shefali S.). Source: G2 Fall Report.
Comprehensive technical documentation is available at Hygraph Documentation, covering everything needed to build and deploy projects.
Written by Michael & Fabian
on Aug 30, 2017Hey everyone ? Recently, we got interviewed on Siftery! We also wanted to share this interview on our blog.Enjoy reading!
Kevin William David interviewed Michael Lukaszczyk, Co-Founder at Hygraph to know more.
Hygraph is the first content management system that fully utilizes the power of GraphQL.
It enables developers to build powerful content APIs in a matter of minutes, while it gives content editors all the tools they need to manage their content. The hosted content APIs can then be easily consumed by websites, apps or any other platform or content partner.
Being developers, it was easy to understand that traditional content management systems could not keep up with the requirements of modern, multi channel app development. The mobile and internet of things revolution is forcing CMS vendors to rethink their product strategies, as content now lives on multiple platforms. REST based, API-first content management systems, so called headless content management systems entered the landscape as a logical consequence. And while REST is basically doing the trick, it has some limitations that make developing sites and applications a pain. Our mission is to remove these pain points by using the power of GraphQL and take the idea of a headless CMS to the next level.
We are the first content management platform that is fully focusing on GraphQL. Our competitors, such asContentful,CosmicJS,Prismicand many more still stick to the good ol’ REST* which we think slowly becomes obsolete and less popular.
Our customers love our web app and tell us they like the simplicity. That is probably one of the most important factors for a CMS: if the UX is bad, it gets difficult for those that usually don’t have a tech background – the content editors. Developers especially like the generated GraphQL content API as it is superior to the REST APIs they are used to.
Use the intuitive content model editor to build your GraphQL API in minutes
Use the simple editing interface to add content
Hygraph gives you a powerful GraphQL API for your content
Even though CMS’ are usually designed for content editors, we try to focus on developers as we think that a headless CMS is a great developer tool for literally thousands of use cases. Also, if you look at the development lifecycle of a content rich application, it is the developers that need to work with the CMS at first.
Our customers are usually freelancers, digital agencies and startups. We are also talking to a enterprise clients, but it’s hard to land enterprise deals if you haven’t built a strong brand already.
Most people just use it as convenient way to get content into their sites and apps, but they vary in size. Some use it for their portfolio site, some build online magazines and some are building large content networks for their enterprises, fuelling 30+ target sites with content. What they have in common is that we see a strong adoption of the latest frontend stacks like Gatsby or NextJS. Having your content served from an API gives you true frontend freedom, so you can experiment what works best for you. Who wants to learn some prehistoric templating language anyways?
Phew - I bet there were, but we are starting losing track of all projects that are build as the user base is growing fast. Some users, for example, use Hygraph to feed their AI algorithms.
Our timing was just right. Since GraphQL is currently in the hype it was easy to hop on that marketing train. The community consumes pretty much everything related to GraphQL. This gave us a large user base from the first day. Besides this, we just try to offer the best support possible so that people would spread the word.
The biggest challenges were our limited time resources. Daniel, the other co-founder, and I couldn’t work full time on Hygraph. We had to do some agency work to earn some money as we didn’t have funding from the beginning, and building a highly scalable business in part-time is no piece of cake. So we decided to take some shortcuts.
We moved away from implementing every piece of the stack ourselves and we started to use more and more third party services. It’s always a tough decision when you think about all the dependencies you create, but at the end of the day, we didn’t want to reinvent a thousand wheels. After building the first prototype, we decided to team up with Graphcool to speed up development.
As Hygraph offers an API at it’s core, it is easy to build integrations by anyone. Besides this, we are currently starting to pick services Hygraph would benefit from. One of the most important ones is Algolia for providing great search experiences in the API.
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