Quill

Quill wanted the calm of a blank page with the power of a real publishing platform underneath. We designed and built both halves.

Editors are unforgiving — a single janky keystroke and writers leave. The interface had to disappear while the engine did heavy lifting.

• A rock-solid, distraction-free editor
• Real-time save and version history
• Publishing that just works, everywhere
• Performance that never stutters mid-sentence

We obsessed over the editor first — latency, selection, undo — then built the platform it deserved.

• A custom editor tuned for zero-lag input
• Versioning and autosave you never think about
• A typed API and clean publishing pipeline
• Motion and chrome kept nearly invisible

Remix on Node renders MDX documents from PostgreSQL, Meilisearch powers instant search, media flows straight to S3 with presigned uploads, and everything ships as one Docker image.

• MDX pipeline with custom shortcodes, sanitised
• Presigned S3 uploads — media never touches the app
• Single-container deploys, zero-downtime swaps

Also considered. Next.js + Contentlayer was close; Remix's nested routes matched the editor/preview split better.