Jekyll
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
2warn against
Jan 4, 2026first mention
Aug 9, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“start with something more low-level and barebones like a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.)”
“Jekyll would an alternative for Hugo.”
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“My go-to for spinning up a site has been Jekyll + Bootstrap with the occasional bit of React for well over 10 years now.”
10+ years of experienceon “Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overni…”
Caveats and dissent
“I've used Hugo and Jekyll before but everytime there is something you have to learn or get used to”
“I can't imagine picking Jekyll today.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Is WordPress the best way to create new websites for beginner 2 mentions
- Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 1 mention
- Bashblog – a single bash script to create blogs 1 mention
- Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight 1 mention
- Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website? 1 mention
Data: jekyll.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“I've used Hugo and Jekyll before but everytime there is something you have to learn or get used to”
“start with something more low-level and barebones like a static site generator (Jekyll, Hugo, Gatsby, etc.)”
“Jekyll would an alternative for Hugo.”
“I have moved away to Jekyll again”
“My go-to for spinning up a site has been Jekyll + Bootstrap with the occasional bit of React for well over 10 years now.”
“Mine uses Jekyll with a heavily customized Just-the-Docs theme.”
“you can take a look at my blog repo to see how I've used it with Jekyll”
“nesbitt.io is apparently using Jekyll [0] - any Jekyll users know anything about this??”
“It works, it generates my blog, I don't want it to do anything else.”
“I can't imagine picking Jekyll today.”
“to build Jekyll websites for customers”
“I wrote some code that exports html to a Jekyll static site”
“since dealing with Jekyll updates was sometimes a headache”
“About a year ago I converted my 500+ post Jekyll blog to Hugo”