I created a hugo blog as well (https://erock.io https://erock.io). It's been a great outlet for me to express myself. It has been on the FP of HN before which

I created a hugo blog as well (https://erock.io https://erock.io). It's been a great outlet for me to express myself. It has been on the FP of HN before which was a ton of fun to see the metrics. However, I totally agree that maintaining the blog has been a bit of a chore and since I wanted to write more I feel like it is actually hindering me. I'm slowly transitioning to use https://prose.sh https://prose.sh (disclaimer, I helped build it) exclusively which should make writing a blog post as easy as creating a markdown file locally and calling `scp post.md prose.sh:/` As far as it opening doors for me, not really. I sit at around 10-20k unique users a month but who knows how many people are actually engaged in the content.