Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Spanner for Mac
A simple way to build and run static Hugo sites on your Mac
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Spanner for Mac launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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If you want to publish your site with a ready made template or you want to create your Hugo website from scratch. Quiqr has everything you need to get you started.
2023 · quiqr.org · its alternatives →
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Hugo▲116Tool for freelancers, produce brilliant work without hassle
2022 · freehugo.com · its alternatives →
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ServBay▲399Hello HN, I’m one of the creators of ServBay. I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.). What it is: ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into…
2024 · servbay.com · its alternatives →
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The world's fastest framework for building websites
2019 · gohugo.io · its alternatives →
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Blocs 4.0▲237Create responsive websites without writing code.
2020 · blocsapp.com · its alternatives →
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Built a website in under 2 minutes!
2015 · gohugo.io · its alternatives →
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I built simple Git-based CMS for Hugo static site generators. No backend, no database, no configs. Just login with Github, select your repo and start editing. If you use Hugo for blogging, feel free to check it out at https://github.com/arashthr/hugo-flow > Why did you make it? I wanted to be able to write posts on my phone, and it's not easy to do that with Markdown. Adding images is also always a headache: copy them, minimize and compress them, remember the correct syntax for images, and type the path. > How did you make it? I used Google Stitch for the design and…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MarsEdit 4▲145Archive, write, preview, and publish your blog from a Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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(spoiler: its XSLT) I've been working on a little demo for how to avoid copy-pasting header/footer boilerplate on a simple static webpage. My goal is to approximate the experience of Jekyll/Hugo but eliminate the need for a build step before publishing. This demo shows how to get basic templating features with XSL so you could write a blog post which looks like My Article some content hello hello Some properties which set this approach apart from other methods: - no build step (no need to setup Jekyll on the client or configure Github/Gitlab actions) - works on any webserver…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working lately on unifying firefox configuration. Many people work on creating custom `userChrome.css` files and modules, browser user scripts, etc, but it's hard to actually use these a lot of the time. It usually involves cloning a repo, finding a folder and lots of copy paste. My tool (firebuilder) has an interactive CLI to select what to apply, (e.g. firefox hardening, custom CSS, etc) then creates a brand new profile folder for you. You can also seamlessly port from an existing profile folder to preserve all of your history, bookmarks, extensions, etc. For those more…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · ox-hugo.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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Just run `marmite` on a folder full of markdown files and get a full website/blog running in seconds. "I'm a big user of other SSGs but it is frequently frustrating that it takes so much setup to get started. Just having a directory of markdown files and running a single command sounds really useful. — marmite user."
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CSS Toolkit▲161Crazy interactive CSS animation builder (Mac)
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MacGap▲166Build native OS X apps with web technologies
2014 · macgapproject.github.io · its alternatives →
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SuperDev▲164All in one browser extension for web designers & developers
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Tutorials for the Popular Static Site Generator Hugo
2020 · makewithhugo.com · its alternatives →
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StaticWeb Studio▲106Deployment + CMS platform for static websites with #nocode
2020 · its alternatives →
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