Hello, my name is Caleb. I'm a product manager by trade, and have enjoyed working in/around the software industry over the past 15 years. I was most recently CEO & co-founder at Sensu (https://sensu.io), which was acquired by Sumo Logic in 2021 (https://sumologic.com), eventually resulting in an opportunity to explore "funemployment".

I've met so many people over the course of my career who are interested in making websites – they even teach themselves HTML, CSS, and Javascript – but then they never end up making a website for one reason or another.

I've watched some of these people try to change careers by finding a job making websites, but many of them end up learning that no one actually writes HTML – it's all generated using tools that would require them to learn yet another programming language. For some, this piques their interest enough that they go learn a programming language, and eventually find their way into the tech industry. That's amazing! I would guess that HTML has been a "gateway language" for tons of people in this way. But I would also guess that for even more people, they don't cross that chasm.

This always bothered me when I had $dayjob. This observation along with incredible improvements to the web platform motivated me to explore whether a pure-HTML templating system was even possible, and if so, would it be useful. HyperTemplates is the result of that exploration. I've had a lot of fun building it over the past 6+ months! I can't wait to see what other people think of it.

PS – this my first ever post on HN after being a lifetime lurker. I'm looking forward to joining in the discussion!