Ask HN: What's the best static site generator for photography portfolios?

4 points by cianmm 2 years ago | 1 comment

I've been using Squarespace to power my personal website, which is mostly just a photography portfolio, for a while now. Since that's pretty much all it does, it hurts to pay Squarespace so much to power it.

At the same time, I spend all of my working life arguing with computers to get them to do things, so I don't have much appetite for more involved coding side projects.

Does anybody have thoughts or recommendations on a static site generator that works great for photography portfolios?

Brajeshwar 2 years ago |

Here is a suggestion. Try a theme from the likes of https://jekyllthemes.io which has mostly Github Pages friendly themes. Buy it once, set it up on Github Pages. You won't have to pay the monthly hosting free.

Or, your photography is growing and looking for just a photos-focused hosting with a little bit of a payment (perhaps cheaper than SquareSpace), then try https://500px.com or https://www.smugmug.com (the parent company that bought back Flickr).