🚀 What Hugo Showed Me in the First Few Hours
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🚀 What Hugo Showed Me in the First Few Hours
I was done with drag-and-drop builders.
I didn’t want another “all-in-one platform” with hidden dependencies, visual editors, and bloated plugins.
I needed speed. Clarity. Control.
That’s when I discovered Hugo.
🧩 How I ended up here
I tested everything:
- Tilda – sleek, fast, but costly and too abstracted
- Notion + Super – nice for quick pages, but too fragile and SEO-hostile
- WordPress – a loyal beast, but heavy and outdated for my goals
- Framer – gorgeous, but overkill unless you’re building a brand site
Hugo felt like a clean slate — fast, local, and brutally efficient.
⚙️ What I got with Hugo
- Absolute control over structure, SEO, and metadata
- No vendor lock-in or subscriptions
- Markdown for content, Git for versions — pure joy
- Full automation possibilities with tools like n8n
😅 But it’s not all sunshine
- Hugo assumes you understand how things are structured
- There’s no visual candy — it’s you and the config files
- The first setup was tricky… but then it clicked
🔥 What Hugo showed me in the first few hours
I don’t want a service. I want a system I own.
Hugo gives me speed, simplicity, and freedom — with zero noise.
It’s not for everyone. But if you’re building long-term and want total control — it’s gold.
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