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Comparatively speaking, there's this tiny little difference in perspective. HexoPress offers a complete sync between a folder on your Google Drive and your blog. Wordpress…",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},"13874841","Good perspective. Wordpress is excellent at what it does. It makes complete sense, to go for it to do some serious blogging. This project is for the rest of us, lazy bloggers…",{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Lazy bloggers who use Google Docs as a scratchpad",[60],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},{"value":62,"source":49,"evidence":63},"No pricing plans yet; free for now",[64],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"13867595","Thanks! Regarding monetizing it, I have no plans yet. On doing the math, looks like it can take up to a 1000 users, before it costs me anything significant. If at all it goes…",{"value":68,"source":49,"evidence":69},"Maker's own itch to blog from Google Docs",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"13873372","Thank you! Regarding customizations, things like SEO, custom footers & pages are in fact very much possible. It's just that I didn't want to put in a lot of effort, with my itch…",[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":78,"objections":98,"requests":127,"questions":153,"alternatives":168},[79,91],{"value":80,"source":81,"evidence":82},"Simple idea with potential","commenter",[83,87],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"13871863","MrQuincle","I think you've something bigger here than you realize. :-) If you would indeed: 1) introduce some opportunity for others to write stylesheets; 2) support custom domains, then I…",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"13871499","relaxitup","Yeah, if you could support custom domains, I'd definitely use this. Also, looks like we could self-host from your github code? By the way, you've come up with quite a brilliant,…",{"value":92,"source":81,"evidence":93},"Useful for those wanting to write in Google Docs",[94],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"13881938","nbcesar","Great idea - if I could change the style and some additional customizations, I would probably pay a couple bucks a month. Actually looking to start up a blog soon and starting to…",[99,110,120],{"value":100,"source":81,"evidence":101},"Name is similar to the Hexo blog platform",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"13871953","vhn","The name is similar to the Hexo blog platform what may cause some confusion. [1] [1] https:\u002F\u002Fhexo.io\u002F",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"13872438","misterhtmlcss","I agree. It was in fact my first thought that it was associated with Hexo.",{"value":111,"source":81,"evidence":112},"Cannot customise stylesheets or themes",[113,117],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"13870980","jmpz","This is great! Is there any way to update the stylesheet?",{"id":118,"by":11,"text":119},"13873277","Glad that you liked it. Updating stylesheet is not possible as of now. But, I'll be working on making a lot of it customizable, going forward :)",{"value":121,"source":81,"evidence":122},"Using it means the blog lives outside Google",[123],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"13871509","webwanderings","Makes sense. I'm not sure why I would use \"your service\" to do this (blog on my Google, only to have the document show up somewhere else). I see value in a service if such…",[128,137,146],{"value":129,"source":81,"evidence":130},"Custom domains",[131,135,136],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"13868965","asaddhamani","Any plans on allowing subdomains so people can use their own domains? Wouldn't mind a hexopress footer (similar to how PostHaven would do it) on the site in exchange.",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},{"value":138,"source":81,"evidence":139},"Custom stylesheets and themes",[140,141,145],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},{"id":142,"by":143,"text":144},"13870356","iamdave","Hrm. You have my attention. Is there a demo blog up somewhere I could look at and does this support custom blog themes and post templating yet?",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},{"value":147,"source":81,"evidence":148},"Image support",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"13875894","philamonster","Any support for inserted images in docs? Just seeing placeholders currently with image dimensions.",[154,161],{"value":155,"source":81,"evidence":156},"Where will blogs be published",[157],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"13866422","shakkeel","So where will my blogs be published?",{"value":162,"source":81,"evidence":163},"How will it be monetized",[164],{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"13867345","jclos","It looks quite cool. How do you plan to monetize it into surviving?",[169,175],{"value":170,"source":81,"evidence":171},"WordPress Google Docs add-on",[172],{"id":173,"by":125,"text":174},"13870672","Wordpress also recently came up with the add-on to have your Google Docs saved up as blog posts. I see parallel here. Interesting idea.",{"value":176,"source":81,"evidence":177},"PostHaven",[178],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},{"comments":180,"answered":181,"key":182},13,8,[183,184,187],{"id":71,"text":72},{"id":185,"text":186},"13873346","Didn't see that coming! 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