[ams6110]

> Ivy seems to have "solved" this problem by having almost no themes. This is not exactly the solution I was thinking of...

Yes, it really is a chicken-egg problem where I think you need to start with at least a half-dozen attractive themes to get attention.

Theme designers are not going to build themes for a site generator that nobody uses. And nobody (relatively) is going to use a site generator that has only a "document" theme.

Generators like Hugo, for whatever their faults, have dozens of really nice-looking themes so it's easy to find something close to what you want and either use it as-is or make some minor tweaks.

[crdoconnor]

I don't think the chicken-egg problem is that bad, the themes are all open source and you can port them. Many exist for a few generators.

A lot of the themes on generators like Hugo are ugly or don't work too.

Probably porting a group of 10 nice ones would be enough.