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I migrated to Hugo from WordPress in 2019: https://blog.carlosnunez.me/post/neurons-are-firing-again/ I built some automation that helps me test and deploy changes to S3 as well: https://github.com/carlosonunez/https-hugo-bloggen. It's clunky but works for me! Feel free to fork/PR if you're interested, of course. It was a great move; I couldn't be happier. 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One of them has the git worktree and preview website for a static website that\u2019s hosted on Netlify. [2] Checking out a git repo in a Linux VM and hosting prod elsewhere (automatically deployed via a push to GitHub) seems like a nice pattern. Since exe.dev doesn\u2019t cha", "context": "", "use_case": "static site hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 790330450, "item_id": 49395653, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395653", "by": "simondanerd", "date": "2026-08-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloudflare or Netlify Pages for static projects", "excerpt": "Cloudflare tunnels for stuff requiring an actual machine. 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It contains solvable lessons & is built with tutorialKit (powered by StackBlitz webcontainers API) Repo: https://github.com/defunkt-dev/markojs-tutorial (its hosted on Netlify under the 300 free credits) If you're looking to get into Marko but were looking for the best possible way, this is the moment to ", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "An interactive in-browser tutorial for MarkoJS V6 with solvable lessons"}, {"id": 783674658, "item_id": 48979666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979666", "by": "sofixa", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a static hosting service with a generous free tier like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc.", "excerpt": "> But with AI you kinda sorta should just build your own blog Please don't. There is absolutely no reason not to use the extremely simple and powerful combination of: * a headless CMS / static website generated, of which there are a bunch so pick the one you like the most. My go-to is Hugo but it is somewhat complex * a static hosting service with a generous free tier like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase ", "context": "", "use_case": "static blog hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"}, {"id": 781458417, "item_id": 48841151, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841151", "by": "mybbor", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify", "excerpt": "I co-founded a page builder for WordPress. Myself and my co-founders would joke about the \"friends and family\" problem. When friends or family asked us to help build their website, we usually pointed them away from our tool+WordPress for something simpler. It's nice to see more options out there that reduce the friction from someone with an idea to something published and sharable. Several weeks ago, I got frustrated", "context": "", "use_case": "static hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Drop"}, {"id": 776564482, "item_id": 48535280, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535280", "by": "sharat87", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Netlify giving me previews of the PR's changes for me to see before merging", "excerpt": "Indeed. This collection costed me around one-month Claude pro subscription around April/May I think. Staggered because of rate-limiting. But it was almost entirely developed on my phone, with Claude Code in the Claude app cloning the github repo, raising PRs, and Netlify giving me previews of the PR's changes for me to see before merging. So I used to have like 3/4 Claudes working on separate games, and review them i", "context": "", "use_case": "PR preview deployments", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]"}, {"id": 774966672, "item_id": 48435417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435417", "by": "lampe3", "date": "2026-06-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "just last week we moved away from netlify to our own solution on AWS.", "excerpt": "just last week we moved away from netlify to our own solution on AWS. Services like netlify who are a layer on top of AWS are no longer needed.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job"}, {"id": 771061970, "item_id": 48191373, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191373", "by": "vessenes", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "said \"deploy to netlify\"", "excerpt": "okay hold my beer. both claude and codex running now. EDIT: both agents took about 20 minutes. I used that exact prompt in a clean directory for each, and then said \"deploy to netlify\" - so a total of two prompts. Codex: https://astounding-bavarois-27b5a2.netlify.app Claude: http://strong-hotteok-91dfb0.netlify.app Netlify is having trouble claiming the Claude project, so if you need a password it's \"My-Drop-Site\" FY", "context": "", "use_case": "deploying sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"}, {"id": 746409713, "item_id": 46650607, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650607", "by": "MaintenanceMode", "date": "2026-01-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Hopefully I can still run it on netlify.", "excerpt": "I love astro, it's been such a pleasure to use and totally solved my need for a flexible platform. I managed to retire a bunch of Wordpress sites and I've never looked back. Hopefully I can still run it on netlify.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Astro Joining Cloudflare"}, {"id": 746119859, "item_id": 46632491, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46632491", "by": "agentvivi", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Hosting: Netlify (static export).", "excerpt": "Hello HN, I built a daily deduction game for history nerds called Witness Archives. The Concept: It\u2019s similar to Wordle or Redacted. You get 5 clues (diary entries, telegrams, confidential files) and have to deduce the specific historical event. You start with 5 \"lives\" and lose one for every wrong guess. The Tech Stack: Frontend: React Native + Expo (running on react-native-web). Hosting: Netlify (static export). Ba", "context": "", "use_case": "static hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Witness Archives \u2013 A daily history puzzle built with React Native Web"}, {"id": 743819617, "item_id": 46488726, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488726", "by": "nunez", "date": "2026-01-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Netlify got AI-pilled some time ago, which makes me feel vindicated in my position.", "excerpt": "Welcome to the dark side, Jeff! I migrated to Hugo from WordPress in 2019: https://blog.carlosnunez.me/post/neurons-are-firing-again/ I built some automation that helps me test and deploy changes to S3 as well: https://github.com/carlosonunez/https-hugo-bloggen. It's clunky but works for me! Feel free to fork/PR if you're interested, of course. It was a great move; I couldn't be happier. Running my blog is basically ", "context": "Runs a personal blog served from S3", "use_case": "site hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo"}, {"id": 736668884, "item_id": 46041805, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46041805", "by": "guiprav", "date": "2025-11-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "2-click Netlify deployments right from the app", "excerpt": "https://vimeo.com/1140238012?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci So this is my visual app builder Webfoundry, I used it to create a handful web apps including MEATEOR, the P2P Grindr alternative I posted about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040436 This demo shows how the voice assistant is able to call GPT 5.1 Codex to generate beautiful HTML elements for your page on-demand based on voice specs. Other than that, We", "context": "", "use_case": "deployment", "switched_from": "", "story": "Webfoundry gets GPT 5.1 Codex HTML generation through voice assistant"}]}