[jakelazaroff]

> Do not create your own blogging engine

> This one is for tech folks specifically. Use Wordpress, Webflow, Hugo or whatever you want, but do not created your own engine. Creating your own engine is a lot of work and a big waste of time.

Is this meant in the sense that existing blogging engines have good defaults with regard to SEO, and if you did it on your own you'd spend a lot of time figuring out by trial and error what you could otherwise get out of the box? Or are they just making a value judgment on how to spend one's time?

[inerte]

How to spend your time. If you want to create content, SEO it, make some money, use a pre-existing blog or CMS. If you want to build a CMS, build one. If you want to create content and your first thought is "but first, I need a CMS!" then you'll probably* fail at both.

* Everybody knows that one person who succeed in both, yay. There's way more that failed.

[jakelazaroff]

Fair enough! Related comic: https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/

[rchaud]

It's providing fair warning that writing useful content is a skill that takes time.

Look at any HN post about personal websites. This community is more interested in discussing their SSG tooling than actually ever writing anything on that over-engineered Markdown converter.