I spent months building a full digital signage CMS for real-world businesses – it’s free to use and I’m looking for testers/feedback
Hi everyone,
For the past several months, I’ve been putting a huge amount of my spare time, development work and money into building a complete digital signage CMS called Lumify.
The idea was to create something designed for real-world, multi-screen digital signage — the kind of screens you see every day in:
🍔 Takeaways & digital menu boards
🍽️ Restaurants & cafés
🏋️ Gyms & leisure centres
🛍️ Retail shops
🏨 Hotels & hospitality
🏢 Offices & reception areas
📢 Advertising displays
📺 Multi-screen & video wall installations
Rather than just building a basic media player, I’ve tried to create a complete platform for managing an entire network of screens remotely from one dashboard.
After months of development, it’s now at the stage where I’d really like to get more people using it.
Lumify is currently FREE, and I’m looking for people willing to try it in real-world environments and give me some genuine feedback.
🚀 What does it do?
Some of the features currently available include:
• Centralised management of multiple screens
• Android digital signage player
• Browser/Web Player
• Image & video playback
• Websites and embedded content
• Playlists
• Advanced content scheduling
• Content expiry dates
• Drag-and-drop template designer
• Digital menu board designer
• Multi-zone screen layouts
• Video walls
• Synchronised screen/TV groups
• Remote screen management
• Live screen previews
• Offline playback/content caching
• Proof-of-play reporting
• QR codes
• Weather & RSS widgets
• Canva & Google Slides support
• User accounts & permissions
• Content approval workflows
• Multi-language support
• Webhooks & integrations
• White-label branding options
• And plenty more
The goal is to make it possible to go from a TV + inexpensive player/device to a centrally managed professional signage network without needing an expensive enterprise signage platform.
💜 Free to use
You can currently use Lumify completely free.
There’s no credit card required, so if you’ve got an Android device, TV, spare display, Raspberry Pi/browser setup or anything else suitable, I’d genuinely love for you to give it a try.
I’m particularly interested in feedback around:
What’s confusing? What’s missing? What could be improved? What features would you actually want in a real installation?
I’m the person developing it, so feedback can directly influence what gets added or changed.
🖥️** Self-hosted & source code option**s
For businesses, developers, MSPs and signage companies that don’t want to use the hosted service, I’ve also made self-hosted options available.
That means organisations can run their own Lumify installation on their own infrastructure rather than relying on my hosted platform.
I’m also open to white-label/reseller arrangements and source-code licensing for companies interested in running, modifying or building a service around the platform.
That’s not really the main reason for this post though — right now I’d primarily like to get more real users testing the platform and telling me what they think.
👋 Want to try it?
You can see the platform, features and interactive demo here:
Lumify Digital Signage
If you decide to try it, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience — even if your feedback is negative. Bug reports, feature requests, UI criticism and suggestions are all useful.
I’ve invested a lot into getting Lumify this far, and I’d love to see people actually using it for real signage installations.
If anyone has questions about the CMS, players, hardware, self-hosting or how any of it works, ask away and I’ll be happy to answer.
Thanks for taking a look! 🙌