If you already have a Next.js app, building a blog inside it with MDX feels like the path of least resistance — no new framework, no separate deploy target, just another route in the app you're already shipping. Whether that's actually less work depends on how much of the supporting infrastructure you're willing to build yourself.
For the wider field of options, see best developer blogging platforms.
What a Next.js MDX blog gets right
Your blog shares components, layout, and design system with the rest of your product — a real advantage if the blog needs to feel like a seamless extension of your app rather than a separate site. Tools like Contentlayer or next-mdx-remote handle parsing frontmatter and MDX content, and Next.js's next/og gives you ImageResponse for programmatic OG image generation without a third-party service — genuinely solid, if you build the template yourself.
Where it costs you
Everything is your own code to maintain: a content collection layer, route handlers for a sitemap and RSS feed, an OG image template, and pagination and tag logic you write and own. Next.js's app router has changed enough across versions that blog-adjacent code (data fetching patterns, route conventions) sometimes needs updating during framework upgrades — maintenance that has nothing to do with your actual writing. And every post still requires a build and deploy, even for a one-line typo fix.
Where Blogizi differs
Blogizi trades the deep app integration for zero infrastructure to build or maintain: Markdown files with frontmatter, published via blogizi publish path/to/post.md, with sitemap, canonical URLs, and per-post OG images handled automatically — see the technical SEO checklist. There's no content collection layer to write and no route handlers to maintain, because there's no app for the blog to live inside.
The actual decision
Pick a Next.js MDX blog if: the blog genuinely needs to be part of your product's UI — shared navigation, shared design system, deep linking into app features — and you're willing to own that integration layer indefinitely.
Pick Blogizi if: the blog is a standalone destination for your writing, not a section of a larger app, and you'd rather not build and maintain the content-layer plumbing that comes with hosting it inside one.