Geekie Werkplek: white-label CMS with visual editing
For our clients we built our own content management system: the Werkplek (Dutch for workspace). You click a text or photo on your own site, change it and put it live with one button. We now also offer the Werkplek as a white label, for agencies and their clients.
What the client notices
- Editing
- On the site itself, not in a panel
- Login
- Code by email, no password
- Publishing
- One button, an overview first
- Versions
- Every publication kept
- Sites
- Several sites, one login
- Brand
- Own address, colours and logo
The technology behind it
No exotic building blocks, but proven technology we use every day. The Werkplek is separate from the client's website: the site stays fast and simple, and management happens in one central, protected place.
The Werkplek itself
- Next.js
- React
- Preact
- TypeScript
Built with Next.js and React, in TypeScript. The editing layer that sits over the site is written in Preact, so it stays small and fast.
Storage and publishing
- Redis
- Upstash
- GitHub
- Resend
Drafts live in an Upstash Redis database, connected through Vercel. Published content becomes a new version alongside the site's code, with the full history in GitHub. Login codes are emailed via Resend.
Works with your front end
- Next.js
- React
- Astro
- HTML
The client's site does not have to be built the same way. A small script and a few markers in the HTML are enough. So the Werkplek works with Next.js, React and Astro, and with other front ends that produce plain HTML.
Made for Vercel
- Vercel
The Werkplek and the sites run on Vercel. There is no server of your own to maintain: everything scales by itself, you pay for what you use, and the sites themselves are pre-built pages that load fast everywhere. That keeps the Werkplek cost-effective, even with many clients.
Without Geekie: An admin panel full of buttons you first have to learn
Why we built it ourselves
We build most sites in Next.js and similar modern frameworks: fast, secure and easy to find. Only the editing side was always a puzzle. A good, client-friendly CMS for sites like these is hard to find and often expensive, let alone one you can offer under your own brand and in your own style. What exists feels like a cockpit full of buttons to a business owner, when all you want is to change a text or swap a photo.
So we turned it around. In the Werkplek you simply see your own website. You click what you want to change, type, and see straight away how it looks. What you see is what will be live. You log in with a code sent by email, with no password to remember.
Nothing goes online by accident. Changes stay a draft until you press publish, and then you first see what will change. Every publication is kept as a new version, so there is always a way back.
“Click a text, change it, press publish.”
The first client to use it manages two sites this way, from one place and with a single login: posting new pieces, replacing photos, moving blocks on the home page.
The Werkplek now has its own codebase and runs as one central environment, with its own address, colours and logo for every client. Are you an agency or organisation with several clients or branches that each have their own site? Then each of them gets a Werkplek under your name.
From first chat to getting found
Get acquainted
Half an hour, free
At your premises in the Rotterdam area or online. You tell me what you want to achieve, I tell you honestly what it takes.
We build and optimise
You get a proposal with a fixed price. Then we build your site, fast and findable, and set it up for Google and AI answers.
You get found
Your site goes live and customers find you. We stay available for questions and maintenance.
Need a white-label CMS for your client base too?
Tell us how many sites you want managed and by whom, and we will look together at whether the Werkplek fits.
Email us directly: info@geekie.nl
free, no obligation
