15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Hugo first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I wouldn't drop WordPress for Astro - but I did for Hugo. Never been happier.”
endorse · production · torm · 2026-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yeah, I adopted Hugo and now I regret it. Every release seems to break themes, and many theme maintainers give up trying to keep current”
regret · personal · rodgerd · 2024-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“great performance and high availability for three years”
endorse · production · 3 yr · manquer · 2020-06-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated it to Hugo and the build time went down to 900 ms.”
endorse · production · sgallant · 2017-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All in all, we switched to Hugo for a reason: it had many features that Jekyll was missing at the time... it caused a whole lot of pain and misery for me.”
mixed · production · parent5446 · 2016-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For example, we use Hugo to provide independent Go package URLs even though the code is hosted on GitHub.”
neutral · production · andreashaerter · 2025-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've built my own websites running on NextJS, Django, Rails, Jekyll, and Hugo”
neutral · personal · abhiyerra · 2024-03-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since I'm using Hugo for my personal homepage and looking to use it with a few other projects”
neutral · personal · anticorporate · 2023-12-30 · 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 Hugo to build a public folder (build done in the cloud) that we deploy to a versioned tree on our web servers.”
neutral · production · uberman · 2022-12-07 · 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?“23.01 siteX/ (... hugo blog post files for siteX)”
neutral · personal · otterpro · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Python to generate a static Hugo site from a (sort of) CRM API.”
neutral · production · dhruvkar · 2019-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Markdown (we use Hugo) and letting everyone at the company submit PRs ad hoc”
neutral · production · DavidCanHelp · 2018-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?