microfeed
a lightweight cms self-hosted on cloudflare, for podcasts, blogs, photos, videos, documents, and curated urls.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Aug 2026
microfeed is a CMS with no server to babysit. It runs entirely on Cloudflare's free tier: Workers for the code, R2 for media, D1 for the database. You publish podcasts, blog posts, videos, photos, or curated links, and everything comes out as a website, an RSS feed, and a JSON API at the same time. Total cost is your domain name.
Setup means cloning the repo and deploying to your own Cloudflare account, and the docs now assume an AI coding agent can do most of it for you. There's an admin dashboard for humans and an official CLI built for agents to create and update content. It comes from the Listen Notes team, and the podcast DNA shows: feeds are first-class, not an afterthought.
Solo publishers and side projects are the sweet spot. Ghost (TryGhost/Ghost) fits better when you want memberships and email. Teams needing roles, editorial workflow, or approvals should look elsewhere.
The catch: you're married to Cloudflare. Not the code, the architecture. There is no move-it-to-a-VPS story, because Workers, R2, and D1 are the product.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree tier: The software is fully open source, and Cloudflare's free quotas for Workers, R2, and D1 comfortably cover personal and small-business feeds.
Self-hosted: Self-hosting IS the product, but on your Cloudflare account rather than your own server. Expect roughly $10 to $15 a year for a domain and nothing else.
Paid: No paid product exists. Heavy media traffic could eventually push you into Cloudflare's paid tiers, which is still cheap for what you get.
Free to run on Cloudflare's free tier. You pay for the domain name and nothing else.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free
- Small team
- free
- Medium team
- free
- Large team
- Not built for editorial teams; use Ghost or a real CMS
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License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Commercial use: ✓ Yes
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