I am looking for some good options to create a documentation website for an open source project. I am looking for something that is free or very inexpensive and that is very easy to use and setup. It could be a tool, service or hosting platform. I am not a web developer but I know markdown.
Do you know of some good options?
What’s the complexity of your project? If you’re not a developer and it’s a simple project, I’d say do notion pages.
If devs like it I’m sure they will contribute to make a legit docs site for it.
Good way to start imo that has zero friction (for you) and I wouldn’t personally mind it since you get public URL’s.
Or use Codex or CC to make a markdown site hosted on GitHub io
A lot of static site generators support rendering markdown to HTML, can't give any specifics since you probably have your own preferred stack/language to use.
Can you tell more about the project? For a small one launching a complicated docs system could be overhead.
Sphinx, MkDocs, Docusaurus.
imo gitbook.com seems to be the easiest for nondevs
spin up a mediawiki container
The two most popular options are Docusaurus and Material MkDocs:
- https://docusaurus.io
- https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
They're both used by hundreds of open source projects, are pretty easy to set up, and use markdown for content so you shouldn't have any trouble.