I guess these things are not what ( a majority of the actively posting) HN crowd is thinking about when static site generators come up - but I want to mention t

I guess these things are not what ( a majority of the actively posting) HN crowd is thinking about when static site generators come up - but I want to mention that there is no need for all these hugo / jeckyl type setups for everyone when you can download a program write some text and publish - generating a static site with tools like: NotePad++ sublimeText PineGrow - https://pinegrow.com https://pinegrow.com CoffeeCup (site designer, html editor, form makers) -https://www.coffeecup.com/ https://www.coffeecup.com/ BlueGriffon is a static site maker even has wysiwyg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueGriffon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueGriffon / http://www.bluegriffon.org/ http://www.bluegriffon.org/ I loved making pages and sites with NetObjects fusion the most - it seems that PineGrow is the closest thing to that but modern. There are also a couple of 'Wordpress goes Static' plugins ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ is one of them ) that can pipe out static html pages from a WP install - and they are handy for positives of having a static site - with the bonus of all the WP themes - of course doing that destroys the dynamic things you may want - site search, contact forms, comments - but handy for the right use case. In a pinch it is sometimes faster to pop open notepad and paste in an html5 boilerplate add some text and save it - done. It's quite trivial to pull in bootstrap, bulma or similar with an include line or two and start making a page / generating a static site.