While it's obviously not the best solution, and not something that everyone would want to do, I started creating an application just so that other people could

While it's obviously not the best solution, and not something that everyone would want to do, I started creating an application just so that other people could edit a static site. It gives them a basic editor, abstracts away frontmatter, and can generate the new site from updated content. I definitely have some regrets from this approach instead of just picking a CMS that already exists, and if I were in a similar situation in the future I'd probably start comparing preexisting CMS options.