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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

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post #30

Just curious, how does the syntax highlighting work in the demo blog?

Ah, I haven't mentioned it anywhere. You can also drop .md files in your "hexopress" folder in Google drive. These will show up as posts as well :)

I use this to write posts that need code-blocks and also, I love markdown!

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

#32
post #30

Just curious, how does the syntax highlighting work in the demo blog?

Ah, I haven't mentioned it anywhere. You can also drop .md files in your "hexopress" folder in Google drive. These will show up as posts as well :) I use this to write posts that need code-blocks and also, I love markdown!

Not sure if it would be possible, but I would love a way to do WYSIWYG code-block editing directly in google docs

I tried the code-blocks google docs extension which looked right in my doc, but that didn't seem to work with hexopress

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

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post #20

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Can't you do that with a simple zappier integration? Just thinking out loud. When I wrote hexo.press I also wanted to make a full-featured CMS with Google Drive as the backend, but then I realized a lot of this can be achieved with Zapier and can be done generically as well - adaptable for Microsoft OneDrive, Zoho Workdrive or Google Drive Did you already try Zapier?

I adore Zapier! But how would I use it in this case? I can imagine triggering with a new Mailchimp campaign, but where would it post to?

You could set up a Zapier integration with Ghost (ghost.org). Use Zapier to publish every Mailchimp newsletter as a Ghost article maybe? Hope I helped.

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

#34
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?

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

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I deleted my previous comment since it was irrelevant. Yes, you are right. I wanted to write markdown files and make them as posts. So I wrote that piece of code that, looks for md files as well, in addition to Google Doc files – for publishing as posts. Helps me write code-blocks heavy posts in markdown directly in Google Drive, using markdown extensions. Google Docs is yet to support code blocks and by now I doubt…

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.

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

#40
I've been using this approach for my blog and I've been loving it :) Seems like Google Docs for blogs is a bit of a golden ticket to the front page on hackernews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23134101).

I'm a bit hesitant about using an external service for something like this however. I just have a cronjob running on the server I use for my website and that's worked out pretty well.

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