Don't spend 400 hours customizing your favorite blogging software then 0 hours blogging. :)

(I use Jekyll -> netlify. I only use Jekyll because I used it once 10 years ago. I literally write posts in Github directly and commit to master because blogging should be informal and F the haters)

Throw a dart ;-)

  import random
  platform = random.SystemRandom().choice(["Astro", "Blogger", "Ghost", "Hugo"])
  print(platform)

For additional inspiration, some earlier threads with similar theme:

Ask HN: What do you use for your personal blog? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41608459 - Sept 2024 (44 comments)

Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024? -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014806 - July 2024 (134 comments)

Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for your blog? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38957782 - Jan 2024 (7 comments)

Some earlier threads about static site generators:

Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397521 - Aug 2024 (25 comments)

Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861593 - Mar 2024 (74 comments)

https://bearblog.dev/ is pretty cool

Static site generation and Github pages. Start with the Jekyll generator Github supports out of the box and roll your own if you need something it doesn't provide.

It depends, there are a lot of options including the age old blogger, wordpress, substack, ghost, medium etc. May be you can checkout substack (https://substack.com/for-bloggers)

Hackernoon, substack or medium are the best to bootstrap your readership.

If you already have a following through other social media, I second jekyll on github pages or wordpress.

Or, just look at what the top bloggers use and follow along.

Blot.im - you can write your posts in Markdown, Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, OpenOffice. Your documents can be stored in Git, or a folder in Dropbox, or a folder in Google Drive, and the service publishes them from there. $5/month

(not affiliated, just used and liked it back when I had a public facing blog)

https://blot.im/

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Nucelo gives you everything you want. As an open source platform, you can share unlimited articles for $4 per month. You also get a place to share your projects and bookmarks. It doesn't end with this, you can take a look.

https://nucelo.com

Astro is great and has deployment guides for so many platforms

Wix? Pay a few dollars a month, write what you want, nothing to maintain.

For personal blogging, platforms like WordPress and Medium are highly recommended.

I think in the selfhost with hugo or Jekyll is nice options!

If you’re open to spending a bit, I highly recommend a hosted Ghost.js blog (around $11/month). It gives me full control over my content and domain, and I can choose to keep it ad-free. In my opinion, it’s a far better option for building your personal brand compared to platforms like Medium or DEV.to, which often have paywalls and can be cluttered with garbage low-quality content.

I use Posthaven because one of its primary goals is permanence...not that I blog much.

Or very well.

Good luck.

Self host a simple blog. It's the best.