Sedes runs on Justflows and we couldn’t be prouder
Sedes is fully running on Justflows. A production milestone, a look back at our first release, and where the platform stands with stable version 0.3.8.
There is a special feeling in opening a production website and knowing that the platform you have been building is underneath it.
Today, we want to share one of those moments: Sedes is fully running on Justflows.
Seeing Justflows support a real product brings the work into focus. Every improvement to the editor, every plugin hook, every installation fix and every release contributes to something people can actually build on. And yes, we are proud of that.
Meet Sedes
Sedes helps lawyers bring official Dutch and European legal sources into their work with ChatGPT and Claude.
It addresses a practical problem: an AI answer can sound convincing while referring to a ruling that does not exist, an outdated statute or a quotation that does not match the original text.
Sedes connects those tools to primary sources and provides ways to check references, verify quotations and retrieve the relevant source text. You can explore the product on its Dutch and English website.
That website runs on Justflows, with its own identity, multilingual pages and product-specific functionality. Seeing that take shape on our platform is exactly the kind of milestone we have been working towards.
What powers getsedes.com
The Sedes website is a good example of how a Justflows site comes together. Sedes did not fork the platform to get there. Its product-specific pieces live in its own site plugin, built on the same plugin SDK that is available to every developer.
Everything else comes from Justflows and its plugin ecosystem:
- Dutch and English pages, with a language switcher and hreflang links so visitors and search engines land on the right language.
- The Helpdesk plugin, whose support popup lets visitors ask a question without leaving the page.
- A site plugin of its own for everything that is unique to Sedes, kept separate from core so platform updates stay simple.
None of this required changes to Justflows core. Building extensibility in from day one was meant to make exactly this possible, and it is good to see that hold up on a real product.
From the first release to a production platform
Our first Community Edition release, Justflows 0.1.0, arrived on 20 August 2026.
It established the foundation: a unified server, an administration interface, public website rendering, a browser-based installer and support for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB. Plugins, themes and a typed SDK were already part of that foundation, because extensibility mattered from the beginning.
The ambition was to make a modern, open-source web platform that people could manage through their browser and developers could extend with confidence.
Since then, the work has expanded across the whole experience. Justflows has gained richer visual editing, multilingual content tools, search, responsive images, scheduled publishing and APIs. The ecosystem has grown too, with plugins bringing commerce, support tickets, quotes and private file sharing into the platform.
The pace has been high. Between 0.1.0 and 0.3.8 we shipped 29 releases in about ten weeks. Some brought big new features; many were small fixes found by people running real sites. Both kinds count.
Just as much effort has gone into the less visible parts: installation, updates, recovery, permissions and the everyday details of running a website. You can explore the platform’s current capabilities at justflows.com.
A production site needs all of those pieces to work together.
Where we are today
As of 28 October 2026, our latest stable release is Justflows 0.3.8.
This release fixes an Apache configuration issue that could cause browser developer-tool requests to trigger Fail2Ban bans. It is a small release with a very practical purpose: keeping live sites working properly.
That is part of the journey too. New capabilities help people build more. Maintenance and fixes help them keep running what they have built.
Sedes currently identifies its live website as running Justflows 0.3.7. Seeing it in production makes the responsibility behind each subsequent release feel especially concrete.
Why this means so much to us
When you spend your days building a platform, it is easy to see it through issues, commits and release notes.
Then you open a website like Sedes and see the result from another perspective: a distinct product, with its own audience and purpose, built on the foundation you have been working on.
That matters to us.
It gives us something to celebrate, and it gives us more to learn from. Production use brings real requirements, exposes rough edges and helps shape the next improvements.
Running in production creates a feedback loop. When something rough turns up on a live site, it becomes an issue, then a fix, then a release that every Justflows site benefits from. The more sites that run on Justflows, the faster that loop turns.
We still have plenty to build. We are proud of how far Justflows has come, and seeing Sedes live makes us even more motivated to keep going.
To everyone testing releases, reporting problems, contributing or building with Justflows: thank you. You are helping turn an open-source project into a platform people can depend on.
Are you running your own site on Justflows? We would love to hear about it, and maybe feature it here next. Let us know on GitHub.
Take a look at Sedes, and explore what you can build with Justflows.
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