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Pat Walls

You Don't Need WordPress - Create a blog with only Google Docs

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Create A blog with just Google Docs for free. Integrate directly with Google Drive. Work from your phone or computer.

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Stephen Johnson
🎉 Great work @thepatwalls! It has ben super fun watching and chatting with you as you shipped all day. The day is over you can now sleep 😴 I have my YDNW account and will let you know when I uncover any bugs!
Pat Walls
Maker
@stephenfjohnson Thank you for hanging out on the stream I couldn't have shipped it all without you. Now your turn!! ☝️☝️
Adam Cochran
Love this @thepatwalls - great work! Always looking for a way to replace bloated WP blogs - and flat file has been a pain. On your lander, might want to add details on if this can support custom domains/sub-domains? Big selling point that I didn't see listed under features (and possibly a way to monetize?)
Pat Walls
Maker
@adamscochran Yes thank you! Yeah I wanted to implement a paid plan but I just ran out of time in my 24 hour challenge. I'm thinking custom domain, analytics, and removing branding for a monthly fee. Thoughts?
Adam Cochran
@thepatwalls Let people use a domain, but, just have them buy it through a registrar you are affiliated with. Then analytics + remove branding on a plan. I'd make both a monthly price and an annual price and have the annual price be a 40%-60% discount so people lock in for the year. Give them time to build out content on their blog so it is a very low churn.
TheSEOGuy India

Liked the idea

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

Hard to built trust on this

Faris Zacina
Amazing story! this will certainly inspire many people to launch earlier than they think it's possible. Also very smart marketing move to stream it live and collect early adopters! I believe You have a lot of feedback.
Raymond Duke
Very cool. I support this because I don't understand why people use WordPress. It is, for me, the most-annoying service to use. It's confusing, user unfriendly, and requires too many plugins, themes, etc. to be useful. As a writer (copywriter), I simply want to write... and make money. If I wasn't already using Squarespace, I'd gladly use YDNW.
Mo
Amazing! Also, the idea is super cool imho. Pat, you're my role model now :D
Pat Walls
Maker
@morajabi Ah dude 😇Yeah I've had a notion of the idea for a while. Stoked to just get it done and out of my system in one day!
Sebastian Kinz|inger
Nice! Love the afford! 🙌 Do you do anything to clean the code/formatting that comes out of g-docs?
Pat Walls
Maker
@derkinzi Nope nothing too crazy! The gDoc exports formatted html with inline styles. It's cool because it can format tons of stuff from the gDoc like colors, shapes, etc. The only thing I had to do was rip out the and tags and it works quite nicely. For example, Google will export a gDocs chart to an image automatically - see this example: https://www.youdontneedwp.com/pa...
Igityan Hayarpy
Great ideas. Thank you
Davis Baer
Love it!
Nhat Phuong
google driver say: not safe! Please fix it
Pat Walls
Maker
@nhatphuong Yes I know. Sorry, since I built this in 24 hours, I didn't have time to get my Google API account verified. I'm working on it right now. Should be back soon.
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