--- title: From Years of Client Work to a Next.js + Sanity Starter Kit description: A freelance developer describes how years of repetitive headless CMS setup work led to building 'The Content Architecture', a paid Next.js and Sanity starter... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-years-of-client-work-to-a-next-js-sanity-starter-kit-xsgebesso twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From Years of Client Work to a Next.js + Sanity Starter Kit | daily.dev og:description: A freelance developer describes how years of repetitive headless CMS setup work led to building 'The Content Architecture', a paid Next.js and Sanity starter... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-years-of-client-work-to-a-next-js-sanity-starter-kit-xsgebesso og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XsGebESsO.png og:image:alt: From Years of Client Work to a Next.js + Sanity Starter Kit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From Years of Client Work to a Next.js + Sanity Starter Kit **[Codrops](https://daily.dev/sources/codrops)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A freelance developer describes how years of repetitive headless CMS setup work led to building 'The Content Architecture', a paid Next.js and Sanity starter kit. The post covers recurring pain points like stale content bugs, broken webhooks, and editor confusion, and explains how the kit solves them through opinionated decisions baked in once: a fetch helper with dual-cache strategy, a page builder with guardrails, unified link and media fields, SEO from day one, and AI agent support via AGENTS.md and llms.txt. The kit is now available for purchase with a one-time payment and lifetime updates. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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