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Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

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Re: Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

#41

Very cool, love writing docs in google, but find sharing it out somewhat lackluster. Couple q's 1. What sort of SEO is there/do you plan to add? 2. I onboarded through the product @rob, and then moved a doc to the hexopress folder in drive. How long does it take to refresh?

It doesn’t refresh by itself. Once you finish writing your doc, you have to sign into hexopress once and click refresh blog once.

Re: Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

#42

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Yeah I agree, it really sucks that really basic things like equations, code-blocks, and captions in images aren't supported in Google Docs, it's an incredible dealbreaker.

Google slides doesn't even support vector graphics. Given the tech-savvy nature of people at Google, I've long suspected that nobody there actually uses Google Docs.

That's not quite true. You can import EMF (and SVG with some effort)

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/115814/how...

Re: Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

#43
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google slides doesn't even support vector graphics. Given the tech-savvy nature of people at Google, I've long suspected that nobody there actually uses Google Docs.

That's not quite true. You can import EMF (and SVG with some effort) https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/115814/how...

I've never found any of these kinds of approaches to actually work; I always end up with a rasterized image that I could have gotten by just taking a screenshot.

Re: Show HN: I made a platform to publish my Google Docs files as blogs

#44
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Funny, Medium spent all this time working on (and blogging about) the perfect editor, and you simply use Google Docs.

This is common in journalism. The NYT created ArchieML with this workflow in mind and Politico has Gootenberg which uses Google Docs.
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