I’m not happy with the static site generator offerings. Some require a bunch of dependencies like ruby. I guess that’s not so bad now I know docker. But they all have some system of generating from templates that feels limited and annoying. Something I thought of that I’d make if I got time is a simple static site generator based on a JSON data model (that can pull in markdown references). This gets fed into a function in JS that you write to convert that into a bunch of files ie your website. This makes it 100% hackable in a familiar and general purpose language - JS, with the ability to use any template system eg handlebars or hell... just backticks. You’d have the whole Node ecosystem at your disposal or even call out to other exes such as pandoc.