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Google Doc -> Blog

I'm thinking of working on a platform and a Chrome extension that lets you seamlessly publish a blog post from a Google doc. Do you think it'll be useful? Worth trying?

on March 22, 2020
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      That is great, kind of wish I just used google docs instead of building my own editor for my website builder.

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      I saw that, but it doesn't really have any features like analytics. Don't really want to depend on it, since it doesn't seem actively maintained either.

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        The fact that this exists is a good thing. It validates that at least one other person thinks building something like this is worth it (at least they did at some point).

        That said, be careful what you read into it. You don't know how popular it is. You don't know if the creator makes any money from it (probably not since it's free and open source). You also don't know the reasons why they made this thing, it might have been just for fun.

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          If I am not wrong it is a product of https://twitter.com/thepatwalls?lang=en, he has always been pretty transparent about his business, you can try to ask him directly

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    Hey @indievisahacker it sounds very useful

    I'm in the middle to make a decision whether going for Medium or Squarespace built in for the blog of my small project. How would you manage to publish this tool?

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      Hi Felix, my landing page is up and I'm working on the product right now. https://simpleblog.io/

      Does this give some flavor on what it would be? I'd love to have you as a user.

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        Hey nice! When would be the product launch?

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          I'm hoping within the next two weeks.

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    I'd love something like that, also if it would adjust content into my template something on the lines of ACF plugin

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    Nice idea ;-)

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    I would like that. If the templates are nice to more like medium design!

    Also depends on price

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    Personally, this sounds like something I would try. Something like that would reduce a lot of friction in posting blogs for me. Could you share more about the project?

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      The focus is:

      • Your data lives with you, and you don't have to think about the hosting platform going down
      • You can create a new post by creating a new Google doc, and the chrome extension will let you hit publish for a new version and show you a delta
      • The hosting platform will be mobile optimized from day one

      Glad to hear this resonates with you. What are some features that you'd need to have before you'd use this tool?

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        that sounds interesting that you’re doing it in a Chrome extension, I would expect something like this to use the drive api on a web app.

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