alt Hacker NewsI’m building a browser-based static site generator and CMS.
I love SSGs as they’re simple and fast and the sites they make can be hosted anywhere with little maintenance. But, after helping a non-technical friend get up and running with one, the UX is rubbish.
So I’m building a combined CMS and SSG called Sparktype, designed for writing and publishing. Users can create pages or collections, write and export the generated site. At the moment it exports to zip, but I’m working on connecting to Netlify or GitHub for automatic deployment.
My goal is to build something that allows people to create a publication with the ease and polish of say, Medium or Substack, but which is completely portable and will work on almost any hosting.
It’s very early MVP - the editor works, but the default site theme is rough around the edges and there are a bunch of bugs. I’m currently working on getting it good enough so that I can create its own marketing and documentation site with it.
I’d love any thoughts or feedback you might have.