if you want to get started writing super quick, you can also take a look at some of the super minimalist platforms that are basically as you describe - like https://bearblog.dev/ and https://mataroa.blog/.
I've stumbled on both from submissions to HN and they have become my recommendations for friends that want to write, especially the couple who are prone to jumping down technical rabbit holes & not ever getting to the writing.
> Bear Blog has been built as a platform and not as an individual blog generator. It is more like Substack than Hugo. Due to this it isn't possible to individually self-host a Bear Blog.
Guessing the other is similar.
To be honest a single HTML file which is what I'm thinking of, I can grab a shared server from any of the old school hosting providers ans upload an HTML page... Or deploy staight to cloudflare/gcp/azure/aws just as easily.
Sure for some people that is a lot of work but I do a lot of devops/infra work and it will take me more time to write the HTML page than to deploy it on the web with SSL... To put it into perspective I already have a VPS with nginx infront if it...