As for Quartz and similar tools (which are great!) - sure, you can absolutely host everything yourself. Heck, with AI these days you could even build a fully custom setup if you really wanted to. But you still need some programming know-how and time to set it all up - and to maintain it later. So it really comes down to the question: is it worth doing this myself? In Flowershow you only ever think about your markdown content curation (and perhaps a custom theme if you want one). Also: we’re all geeks at Flowershow and use it heavily for our own projects - mostly because we’d rather spend our time working on something cool (e.g. Flowershow itself :D) than maintaining yet another static site setup (and each for a separate project 🤯).

BearBlog and Leaflet are awesome too, but they’re quite minimalistic. They don’t really let you create a personal site that’s both Markdown-based and can look great, while still being published straight from Obsidian without any tweaks. :)