**Looking for a Blog Solution**

gatsbyjs.org is great option if you have some decent JS/ React knowledge.

I use and love Hugo (https://gohugo.io/), it's a static site generator and you write your content in markdown.

Combined with something like Netlify, it is a very fast, robust system. Only downside for me is that the templating language is a bit tricky at first if you are not familiar with the Go programming language.

Pick either Jekyll (Ruby) or Gatsby (JavaScript/React). You can push to GitHub and build on Netlify, which lets you host sites for free. They're both easy to use and extremely lightweight.

I run all of my blogs with Jekyll.

You can use https://jekyllrb.com/

If you get a chance, take a look at the Azartiz.com blog. You can host it on your website by uploading a single .html page, or host it on Azartiz.com.

It uses the same "TinyMCE" web based editor as Medium and WordPress, and I'd be happy to help with getting you up and running.

My personal blog setup involves using GatsbyJS as the frontend and Ghost as the CMS. I wrote a post regarding it here https://nishantdania.com/blog/guide-to-setup-ghost-gatsby-website

I had the same criteria and settled on moving my WordPress blog to Jekyll (hosted on Netlify). I wrote a few notes on a blog post Moving My WordPress Sites to Jekyll - it's fairly straightforward and I couldn't be happier with the result - Fast, FREE, and lots of control. :)

Never used it myself, but I heard good things about write.as. It's a paid service but should be very cheap for your needs.

Right now I am checking out bludit.com. Flat-file CMS. Very light. Not quite sure how robust it is. You may want to check it out.

I used Vuepress and deployed it to netlify for my blog (https://www.amie-chen.com/). So far I really enjoyed it, compared to my experience working with gatsby.js/jekyll.

My other favorite is Hugo, the speed is just amazing!

If you are interested in Vuepress I wrote a couple posts on how to set it up and deploy to netlify (https://www.amie-chen.com/blog/20190204-build-a-site-with-vuepress-intro.html.) Hope it helps!

This is what I'd use...

As a technical founder: https://www.11ty.io/
As a designer/marketer: https://ghost.org/

I need help here too. We have ruby and rails saas products. We know about ghost, wordpress, but they cant work in our domain /blog/ without hell. We can build a blog with cms, but we do not want to put all that effort into it. What is a better option for us!

Ghost is awesome! If you want a quick deployment, here's a great repo for Heroku (Ghost 2.0 -- the latest): https://github.com/SNathJr/ghost-on-heroku

We've been using Ghost, and recently upgraded. The new editor is pretty slick, and it comes with all the SEO stuff out of the box.

I'd recommend https://cnvs.io/ and https://ghost.org/

I decided to go with Grav --> https://getgrav.org/ self hosted, and like it so far!

https://blog.survais.com/