MIT licensed9,426 on GitHubsince 2016

Run your entire content stack from one Markdown repo.

The open-source structured-content Hugo framework for founders, dev advocates, and consultants. Define blocks in frontmatter. Hugo renders the page. You own the repo.

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Case study

Scale without the database.

How NVIDIA Research manages 1,000+ publications as plain Markdown — piping ORCID, OpenAlex, Zotero, and BibTeX feeds into a single Git repo with sub-second builds.

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1,000+

Markdown files

< 1s

Build time

Vendor lock-in

Inputs

Markdown

.md files

Images

figures · plots

ORCID

iD records

OpenAlex

publications

Zotero

libraries

BibTeX

.bib files

Hugo Chat AI

agent · sync

GitHub

single source of truth

1,000+

.md files · 100% owned

HugoBlox

render engine

Live site

static output · CDN-ready

< 1s

build

HugoBlox is the only framework that lets enterprise research teams like NVIDIA pipe ORCID, OpenAlex, Zotero, and BibTeX data directly into thousands of Markdown files via GitHub — achieving sub-second build times with zero vendor lock-in. Every publication lives as plain text, in your repo, under your license. No proprietary database, no trapped assets, no per-seat pricing.

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Two ways to ship.

Both start at the same place — pick a template — and end with your code in your GitHub repo.

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Browse 47 templates. One-click deploy to your own GitHub repo in 30 seconds.

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Deploy to GitHub Pages or anywhere
You own the Markdown — fork-and-go

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Brief our AI designer in plain English. It edits your Markdown blocks. You keep ownership.

youMake the hero darker and add a pricing section.

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Built for daily content velocity

One framework. Four kinds of people who ship daily.

Founders

One repo. Every surface.

Run docs, blog, landing, changelog, careers from a single Markdown repo. Replace Mintlify ($250/mo). Replace Notion (lock-in).

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Dev advocates

One source. Every format.

Same blog post → Marp deck → tweet thread → newsletter. Magic Import for citations. Cmd+K rewrite. Ghost-text.

Ship client sites 40% faster.

Studio Library Team-Agency · 25 seats · unlimited client sites · $399 lifetime. Hand off as Markdown your clients can maintain.

Indie hackers

Personal + product pages in minutes.

Personal site + 2–5 product landings + occasional blog. AI authoring is leverage for solo speed. Pro $20/mo.

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Coming from somewhere else?

The honest comparison.

Every row is verifiable. Click any column header for a dedicated migration guide.

Feature	HugoBlox	Mintlify	Notion	Webflow
Pricing (mid-tier)	$14 / mo	$250 / mo	$20 / user	$39 / mo
Self-host?	MIT, anywhere
Real Markdown export?	Git repo	Subset
Custom domain?			Paid
Who owns your content?	You do	Mintlify	Notion	Webflow
		Migrate from Mintlify	Migrate from Notion	Migrate from Webflow