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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

#22
Was curious how the document conversion happened: It's using Pandoc to convert .docx files downloaded from Google Docs into markdown files.

Hadn't seen Pandoc before. It's a Haskell library/cli that supports a large number of input/output document formats in varying degrees of completeness: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc

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

#23
This is amazing! Do you have a plan to support subfolders?

I'd love to use something like this for docs instead of a blog.

I wrote about my setup here: https://0x0ece.medium.com/docs-for-an-open-source-project-b7...

I manually manage the md files inside my repo and publish via jekyll+github pages. But I do most of the actual writing/commenting work in gdocs, so automating gdoc -> md is just awesome!

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

#25
This is pretty cool! There is a whole wave of young people that are using Chromebooks and therefore Google Docs at school every day. They will be most comfortable with writing in Gdocs. I could see a product like this becoming very popular.

I mostly used MS Word to write essays at school growing up and to this day my ideas flow best when I have Word open on a desktop computer.

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