Hey everyone! 👋

I am the founder of MIDILLI Tech, and the lead behind Vale, and we're genuinely excited to finally share what we've been building.

Why another CMS?

Because we got tired of the same old routine.

You start with a CMS. Then you need a shop, so you install a plugin. Then another for newsletters, another for forms, another for analytics, another for SEO, another for caching... Before you know it, you're maintaining a collection of products instead of running your website.

Some features require paid extensions. Some plugins don't work well together. Others bring their own dependencies, subscriptions, and maintenance headaches.

We kept wondering: why can't all of this just work together?

So, instead of building yet another plugin or a thin wrapper around existing software, we started building Vale from the ground up.

Two years later, here we are.

Vale is an open-source, self-hosted web platform that brings together:

CMS: A modern visual block editor, pages, posts, custom content types, revisions, multilingual content, SEO and more.
E-commerce: Physical and digital products, subscriptions, coupons, multiple payment gateways, checkout, abandoned carts and order management.
Newsletters: Campaigns, automations, segmentation, A/B testing and recurring digests.
Forms: A visual form builder with embeddable forms.
Analytics: Built-in, cookie-free analytics without relying on third-party tracking scripts.
Security: 2FA, SSO, rate limiting, CSRF protection, encryption and more.
Extensibility: Themes, plugins, REST API, webhooks and integrations.

But the features are only half the story.

We believe you should own your website, not depend on an ecosystem of subscriptions.

That's why Vale is:

Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Self-hosted. Your data stays on your infrastructure.
Built with PHP 8.3+, so it can run on a wide range of hosting environments.
Compatible with shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and even a Raspberry Pi.
Modular. Disable what you don't need and enable it whenever you want.
Free from mandatory cloud services or recurring platform fees.

And here's something we're particularly proud of: the website of Vale you are looking at right now is running entirely on Vale. We're using our own product to build and operate our own website.

For developers, Vale is built with Slim 4, Doctrine DBAL, Twig and a clean Domain-Driven Design architecture. We want the codebase to be understandable, extendable and maintainable, not a black box.

We're not claiming Vale is perfect or that it will replace every tool for everyone. We're building it because we believe there should be a simpler, more independent way to run a website.

We'd love to hear from you!

What would you expect from an all-in-one web platform like this? What's missing? What would make you consider switching from your current CMS or website setup?

Try the demo, explore the documentation, or take a look at the source code:

🌐 Website: https://getvale.org/

🚀 Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/midilli/vale-your-all-in-one-web-platform

🌐 Try Live Demo: https://demo.getvale.org/ (User: admin@getvale.org Password: password123)

📚 Documentation: https://docs.getvale.org/

💻 GitHub: https://github.com/MIDILLI-Tech/vale

Thanks for checking out Vale. And if you're someone who believes software should be owned, understood and controlled by the people who use it, we'd be very happy to have you with us.

Let's build a better web. ❤️