What is BaseBlocks

BaseBlocks is an open-source site builder for teams. You build and publish internal sites — documentation, knowledge bases, onboarding portals, team hubs — without writing code or managing infrastructure.

The problem it solves

Most teams end up with content spread across a wiki, a Google Drive folder, a Notion workspace, and a pinned Slack message. None of it is designed to look like a site, and none of it has a real publish workflow.

BaseBlocks gives teams a proper site builder with:

• A visual drag-and-drop editor — no Markdown, no code required
• A draft and publish model — edits stay private until you're ready
• A real URL — every site gets a subdomain your team can bookmark
• Access control — decide who can edit, publish, or just view

Core concepts

Team

A workspace with its own subdomain (your-team.baseblocks.dev). One team can have many sites.

Site

A collection of pages published under a single URL path (your-team.baseblocks.dev/site-slug). Sites have their own branding, visibility settings, and member access.

Page

A page inside a site. Pages are organized in a tree and can be nested into subpages. Each page has layouts and blocks.

Layout

A row on the page. Layouts contain one or more slots (columns) where blocks are placed.

Block

A piece of content inside a layout slot. Headings, paragraphs, images, code blocks, callouts, and more.

Draft / Live

Every site has two states. Edits always go to draft. Publishing copies the draft to live. Visitors see the live version. Rollback replaces the live version with any previous snapshot.

Who it's for

Common use cases

BaseBlocks works for any team that needs an internal site they can actually maintain:

• Engineering teams building internal developer portals or runbooks
• Ops and HR teams publishing onboarding guides and process documentation
• Product teams maintaining internal spec libraries or decision logs
• Any team that wants a real URL, not a shared Google Doc

Open source

License and hosting

BaseBlocks is MIT licensed. You can self-host it, fork it, or contribute to it.

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Cloud-hosted at baseblocks.dev — free to get started.