Docusaurus alternative that doesn't require development resources

With do-it-yourself sites, you can do whatever you need. But some things you should be aware of if you go that route when building your customer-facing documentation.

1. Developer time is precious: you will have to invest 2-4 weeks initially and probably 5-10 hours per month to maintain the code and push changes to the content;
2. If you have significant traffic (>100K hits per month), you will pay the provider (S3 + Cloudfront, Vercel, or Netflify) some money. In the range of $10 to $50;
3. If you have a commercial offering, you will have to pay Algolia for search; they are free only for OSS;
4. You don't get any integrations out of the box: embedding API docs, diagrams, etc. You put even more development time into it;
5. The static site does not get better with time (unless you put more dev time into it), as opposed to a SaaS solution, which gets better without you doing anything;
6. If you bring in a technical writer, there's a high possibility that they are not familiar with the git + markdown workflow.

That said, it's hard to find what is the real cost of running your own docs website, so we asked the community. Check the first article.