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Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator for Python coders

18 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 7 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-03-17 · latest 2025-12-24

Mentions per year 18 mentions · busiest year 2019 (4)
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    Makesite: Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator (2022)
    story by Tomte · 2025-12-24 · 2 comments
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    Makesite.py
    story by bundie · 2023-09-13 · 0 comments
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    Makesite: Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator
    story by Tomte · 2023-07-15 · 0 comments
  4. You referring to this? https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite I have ported this to go for myself. Works really well for my use.
    comment by computerex · 2023-04-03 · in Own your work
  5. …Lisp. As a result, it inherits the design, layout, minimalism, and simplicity of makesite.py. [1] https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite/
    comment by susam · 2022-01-09 · in Simplicity of IRC
  6. …don't let this convince you that all static site generators must be complex. Indeed! For example, https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite is a simple and lightweight static site generator written in Python. It can be customized easily by…
  7. …work would let you add a custom template that would automatically add a folder worth of images. https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite
    comment by NortySpock · 2021-05-28 · in Blog about what you've struggled with
  8. …For the other sites I've made, I've used WordPress or plain old no fuss static html/js/css. [1] https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite
  9. …and slightly increased memory usage to gain speed. (I just got started blogging and found https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite python static site generator worked well for me. Obviously you're probably a bit far in to switch horses by…
  10. Static site generator in 130 lines of Python (excluding comments, docstrings, and blank lines): https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite Disclosure: My wife developed this project.
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    Makesite.py: FAQ: Can you add feature X to this project?
    story by susam · 2020-11-18 · 0 comments
  12. …a reasonable degree of confidence that what I write now would look the same 10 years from now. [1]: https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite (Disclosure: My wife developed this project) [2]: https://github.com/susam/susam.in/tree/master/conte…
  13. …own Jekyll or Pelican. I can see why many individualist programmers would like such a thing. [1] https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite/network [2] https://github.com/search?q=%22makesite.py%22&type=Code [3]…
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    Makesite.py – Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator
    story by staticwebdev · 2019-11-24 · 72 comments
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    Makesite.py – Simple, lightweight and magic-free static blog generator in Python
    story by susam · 2019-08-26 · 1 comment
  16. If you like writing Python code, I recommend https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite (makesite.py). As the README says, it is a simple, lightweight, and magic-free static blog generator. The entire static blog generator code is in a single…
    comment by susam · 2019-08-26 · in Ask HN: Best Blogging Platform
  17. …structure should be. Now I have my own static site generator written in Python. It is based on https://github.com/sunainapai/makesite that was posted to HN sometime back. What I like about generating my blog with pure Python is that I can…
    comment by foo101 · 2018-11-13 · in Medium is a poor choice for blogging
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    Show HN: Makesite – A static site generator in 125 lines of Python
    story by sunainapai · 2018-03-17 · 60 comments