Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
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Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#2Hey HN,
In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users.
For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs.
I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is familiar with.
Another cool thing, I built and launched this project in 24 hours and streamed the whole thing on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/313288148). I started with just an idea, and streamed the entire process to launch and had a few thousands viewers tune in.
Excited to get your feedback.
Pat
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#3Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
Nice to see an open-source project like this, but where can we find the repository / source?
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#4Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
I really like this. I have a pretty big legacy site with one section full of user-contributed (HTML/images) tutorials written over a period of 20 years (yes, the site has been up over 20 years) and it'd be nice to just copy/paste them into something like google docs, tweak them a bit to make all the styles match, and then republish them.
Your site says the project is open source, but I can't find any link. Will you share a link to the source?
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#5Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
It looks like good fun, but I'll be honest I find the name very insulting.
I've had a wordpress website for 8 years. Is this going to work in 8 years? 6 months?
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#6Enjoyed watching the idea-to-launch process on Twitter and Twitch. Nice work, Pat!
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#7Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
Solving accessibility (and simplicity) to blogging and freedom of speech, and in just 24 hours; this is awesome to say the least. I look forward to the words and wisdom that people will share with us through the platform.
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#8Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
Very cool! I'm guessing that this relies on Google not breaking, disabling or rate-limiting their Docs API, correct?
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#9Hey HN, In my opinion, platforms like WordPress can feel bloated or be intimidating to new users. For this reason, I wanted to build a blogging platform on top of Google Docs. I actually run my own blog as a side project, and I use GDocs religiously because of its excellent collaboration and sharing features. When I’m collaborating with dozens of writers, it’s convenient to be able to use a product that everyone is f…
Nice to see an open-source project like this, but where can we find the repository / source?
Re: Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs
#10But it's Google and right now we're mad at them.
The most pleasurable set-up I do, for work and personal, is have a DO droplet hosting a bare-boned server, where static pages are served up, mostly text - because content is King, right?