Comment by prepend

13 hours ago

Sadly, SSGs can’t make money. Nor should they, because they are simple and sort of the whole point is to be simple and not require complicated resources to build or host.

I wish them the best.

e.g. you can't afford to build your own Drupal from scratch but you can afford to build an SSG from scratch and it may even be simpler than customizing an existing SSG from scratch and dodging the WTF.

  • It's interesting to contrast that with other disciplines.

    Like, you can't afford to build your own Unreal Engine from scratch, but most can't afford to build their own game engine from scratch either.

    But site builders are just string concatenation, and CMSs are just CRUD. We overcomplicate it to the moon and back.