15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gatsby first-hand: 4 endorse it, 4 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“It's insanely mature and intuitive, but as we all know that community and business is now drying up too. But the framework is still great.”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · doublejosh · 2023-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“almost invariably come to regret some of the choices that I, or our team, have made (which include... React, Gatsby, Flow, Stylus, Enzyme, Jest, SCSS”
regret · production · just_a_username · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I almost invariably come to regret some of the choices that I, or our team, have made (which include... React, Gatsby, Flow, Stylus, Enzyme, Jest, SCSS”
regret · production · azangru · 2022-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We really disliked this part of Gatsby, but I know some people really like it. I can't criticize it really”
mixed · production · steve_adams_86 · 2021-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the team was slower to address issues, introduced bugs more frequently, and we began to see that it was impeding our progress.”
regret · production · steve_adams_86 · 2021-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a Gatsby site, it was great to setup fast fast fast and has been a pain in the butt ever since.”
mixed · production · talolard · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When we switched our marketing site over to Gatsby it was a godsend, but once we hit over 400 static pages on our site, the build times were killing us.”
mixed · production · himynameistimli · 2020-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from Ghost to Strapi + Gatsby.js ... It works pretty well!”
endorse · production · yoran · 2020-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been playing with Gatsby on toy projects... the content preview feature was $50 / month... How can teams accept to let go of such fundamental features?”
regret · personal · arcturus17 · 2019-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It generated a clean build of a site with 1000 source files in about 3 seconds on my 5 year old Mac Air.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · onion2k · 2017-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have used Gatsby for several projects at work and at home. The current version is great”
endorse · production · abeaclark · 2017-03-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've rebuilt multiple gatsby projects in NextJS recently, and mostly it's actually been pretty nice.”
neutral · production · soiltype · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“(along with Next, Nuxt, Gatsby, Hugo, and many others)”
neutral · production · 3 yr · naet · 2022-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it with Angular for our web application and with Gatsbyjs/React for our production website.”
neutral · production · Yabood · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a bunch of Gatsby and Hugo sites I've created (mostly with Stackbit) that I'm going to try and host with this new offering.”
neutral · production · roilavan · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?