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Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by madrox »

Dwolb wrote: post #62
erulabs wrote: post #56

I’m sure I’m just getting old and this is really neat and useful - but it’s such a shame that everything is now just several SaaSs tapped together. Notion, Retool, Zapier, Google workspaces… I understand the productivity gains, but it points to me at a fundamental failure of technology. We’re all drowning in tech debt and it’s not getting better and most startups spend half their efforts avoiding paying enterprise li…

Thought experiment: What's the largest start-up or most compelling start-up that can be built on a bunch of SaaSs taped together?

I recently did a round with several startups that were Series A looking for CTOs or heads of eng. So many of them really were lots of SaaS solutions strung together. When I asked what the core competency of the team was that differentiated this business from any other, it was often "the experience." Suffice to say that my heart wasn't in selling myself for those jobs.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by isandeep1995 »

pbreit wrote: post #28
tluyben2 wrote: post #11

Notion hasn't been great for me; I wanted to like it and we got it for our team, but everyone is struggling when doing anything besides text. I used it for blogging, but currently only to actually write them, not publish because of the below issues. It's drag/upload images really dies when it's more than a few (on fiber, but that's not the point; in 2022 you need to remember what you were doing when uploading somethi…

I've struggled to grok Notion and Coda. What are the killer apps? I'm happy with Google Docs.

Just wanted to chime in. I have my own Publishing Platform on top of Google Docs. It's called https://docswrite.com

It can bulk publish your Google Docs to WordPress also it can create you a blog from Google Docs.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by shanecleveland »

joelrosen27 wrote: post #70
shanecleveland wrote: post #34

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I use usenotioncms.com to fetch Notion pages for https://notion2embed.com . I personally use it to embed Notion blocks/pages on static sites. They are already nicely styled and simple to update. Just and MVP at the moment, but it works for me, and I plan on improving it over time. Will be great for roadmaps, FAQs, "meet the team" galleries, etc.

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Absolutely! I would hope that any popular offering would have competitors. And I would expect that the creator of the linked service would at least notice that you offer only an iframe embed, as opposed to my SEO friendly JS embed. And I guess you would have to know if one was released before the other. I am sorry if we had similar ideas.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by shanecleveland »

joelrosen27 wrote: post #70
shanecleveland wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use usenotioncms.com to fetch Notion pages for https://notion2embed.com . I personally use it to embed Notion blocks/pages on static sites. They are already nicely styled and simple to update. Just and MVP at the moment, but it works for me, and I plan on improving it over time. Will be great for roadmaps, FAQs, "meet the team" galleries, etc.

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I’ve got a few Notion products. Would love to connect. Feel free to reach out at the domain linked in my profile.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by tr1ll10nb1ll »

Related: I recently built https://github.com/arthtyagi/serverless-notion-blog which helps you use Notion as a CMS.

It's like https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x but much less worked on (bare essentials) and doesn't need a server per se, it runs on a serverless worker.

Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by [deleted] »

pbteja1998 wrote: post #45
Vvector wrote: post #43

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"Hobby projects can make up to 3000 API calls per month for free." How many API calls on a page view? One? Many?

In useNotionCMS.com, there is no concept of a page view, you just call the api, you get back the html. So it’s per api call, not per page view. If you are talking about feather.so, it’s a completely different product. In that, the number of page views will be determined based on your Feather plan.

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Re: Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog

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Post by stavros »

pbteja1998 wrote: post #16

I built an entire product just for doing this. https://usenotioncms.com I then used this and built a no-code blogging platform to publish content from Notion https://feather.so There is also an open source version for using Notion as CMS. That can be found at https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

How does this work? AFAIK Notion's API only lets you fetch pages that have been explicitly shared with it.
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