18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Jekyll first-hand: 7 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I then use Jekyll to parse it when needed... My needs do not require complex SEO and stuff, so it works for me.”
endorse · personal · Brajeshwar · 2020-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We're big fans of Jekyll, but Hugo certainly beats it when it comes to speed.”
endorse · production · sgallant · 2017-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I switched our static website from Jekyll over to Hugo, there was a lot to be wished for.”
regret · production · parent5446 · 2016-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All in all we are very happy with Jekyll (and looking forward to development picking up on it now).”
endorse · production · dagingaa · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Jekyll to generate static sites and have been proud that mass traffic rushes don't bring them down”
endorse · personal · danso · 2012-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It is pretty crazy how much simpler you can go with some things.”
endorse · production · AdrianRossouw · 2012-02-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using jekyll with linode quite successfully. Haven't really had any problems.”
endorse · personal · akg · 2011-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I am pretty happy with my setup (finally)... My main pain points are around the required dates in the filenames”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · swanson · 2011-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Jekyll for it to take advantage of GitHub pages, it's fantastically useful for someone like me”
endorse · personal · _frog · 2011-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“rebuilding my personal blog from Jekyll set up about 10 years ago in Astro.”
neutral · personal · 10 yr · rhinoceraptor · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated https://ElixirSchool.com off of Jekyll to Phoenix and NimblePublisher back in 2021”
neutral · production · doomspork · 2025-08-01 · 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 the docs are just a jekyll site I can copy it to our documentation aws bucket in continuous integration.”
neutral · production · erikgaas · 2020-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't had a single performance issue with a bunch of different Rails, Flask, Node, Phoenix and Jekyll apps”
neutral · production · nickjj · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using s3_website (1.4k stars) and it works great w/ Jekyll and CloudFront as well”
neutral · personal · andersonmvd · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Another Jekyll theme that I've been using is Poole”
neutral · personal · resir014 · 2015-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had been using jekyll for a while. Then I decided to piece together how to replicate what the obama campaign did using s3 and cloudfront”
neutral · personal · sudonim · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used Jekyll as well as plain old html.”
neutral · personal · n8ji · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?