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Challenges with Uniform

Uniform’s biggest problem is the price of admission. And once you're in, good luck breezing through the learning curve. Teams consistently need workshops, onboarding sessions, and a few existential crises to get comfortable with its orchestration layer.

Because it’s still a relatively young DXP, the ecosystem is thin. You won’t find the deep plugin libraries or community support you get with more established headless tools. Content teams also struggle with their mental model. Especially since the abstraction adds a layer of debugging that feels like fighting a boss battle before publishing a single page, and unless you’re on their higher tiers, expect features and limits that remind you this thing is very much built for enterprises… not anyone trying to stay under budget this decade.

Key pain points

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High enterprise pricing barrier

Uniform sits behind an aggressively enterprise paywall, making even basic usage expensive unless you're already swimming in Fortune-500 budgets.

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Complex learning curve

Its whole “experience orchestration” model takes time to wrap your head around. Your team won’t be productive on day one, or even week one.

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Extensive training requirements

Marketers and developers both need onboarding and workflow retraining, which slows adoption and inflates your implementation cost.

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Enterprise-tier feature limitations

A surprising number of essential features only unlock once you upgrade, which is frustrating when the base plan is already pricey.

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Preview functionality gaps

Content creators won’t love the limited, indirect preview setup. It’s nowhere near as smooth as modern CMSes with first-class real-time preview.

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Integration complexity overhead

Uniform’s abstraction layer adds mental overhead and troubleshooting work when things break, especially if you're stitching together several backend systems.

Benefits of Payload

Payload CMS stands out as a robust and flexible content management solution, particularly for developers working with Next.js. Its seamless integration with Next.js allows for a smooth development experience, enabling developers to harness the full power of this popular framework while managing content efficiently. The CMS is open-source, which means it can be customized and extended to meet specific project requirements, offering unparalleled flexibility. With support for custom data models, Payload CMS can handle a wide variety of applications, from simple blogs to complex enterprise systems, making it a versatile choice for developers.

The user-friendly admin interface of Payload CMS enhances the content management process, making it accessible even to non-technical users. This intuitive interface simplifies tasks such as content creation and media management, allowing teams to focus on delivering quality content without technical hurdles. Furthermore, Payload comes equipped with rich features, including authentication, access control, and media management, right out of the box, which accelerates development and reduces the need for additional plugins. Supported by a growing community, developers can benefit from shared knowledge and contributions, ensuring that Payload CMS continues to evolve and improve over time.

Key Advantages

  • •Seamless integration with Next.js applications
  • •Fully customizable and extendable by developers
  • •Supports custom data models for diverse applications
  • •Intuitive admin UI for easy content management
  • •Custom plugins and APIs for added functionality
  • •Growing developer community for contributions and support
  • •Built-in authentication, access control, media management

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