hexo.press
Productivity
blogging platform
SHOW HN2021
180points
54comments
#263of 2,533 in 2021
Top 11%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
11 positive, 14 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Idea: 7 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy and quick to use, clean experience
From 2 comments
Congratulation on shipping! The experience was flawless and quick. Two things I noticed which I hope you will consider fixing: - It was trivially easy to expose the user's…
keehun on HNI really like the large font on the main website. It could be considered a bit extreme, but it made it very easy to quickly understand the product
WaffleIronMaker on HN
Useful idea for writers who draft in Google Docs
From 3 comments
This is amazing! Do you have a plan to support subfolders? I'd love to use something like this for docs instead of a blog. I wrote about my setup here:…
ecesena on HNVery nice. Recently I was thinking about doing this myself. Now I don’t have to! Yay procrastination.
BMorearty on HNThis is pretty cool! There is a whole wave of young people that are using Chromebooks and therefore Google Docs at school every day. They will be most comfortable with writing in…
spamalot159 on HN
Objections
Google Drive access scope is too broad
From 2 comments
I hope Google Drive had a permission that allows access to only specific folders. There are many interesting tools built on top of GDocs and GDrive including this one, but giving…
flakiness on HNYes, Google has to fix this soon. I was bummed when I got know there is no way to restrict my scope to only the folder that I create on behalf of hexopress. There was no other…
lewisjoe on HN
Exposed user email on 404 page and debug mode
From 2 comments
Congratulation on shipping! The experience was flawless and quick. Two things I noticed which I hope you will consider fixing: - It was trivially easy to expose the user's…
keehun on HNDjango debug is quite dangerous to expose online. Are you hosting this on your own computers?
throwaways885 on HN
No license on GitHub repo
From 1 comment
I went to the GitHub repo you included at the bottom of the page and I noticed you don’t include a license. Without a license everyone who clones, forks, or otherwise uses you…
redeux on HN
Account deletion does not revoke Google access
From 1 comment
Congratulation on shipping! The experience was flawless and quick. Two things I noticed which I hope you will consider fixing: - It was trivially easy to expose the user's…
keehun on HN
Requests
Support for code blocks and markdown
From 2 comments
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.
lasagnaphil on HNNot 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…
zffr on HN
Subfolder support
From 1 comment
This is amazing! Do you have a plan to support subfolders? I'd love to use something like this for docs instead of a blog. I wrote about my setup here:…
ecesena on HN
Blog post comments
From 1 comment
Very nice. Is there a built-in way to enable post comments?
starik36 on HN
Hosted paid version
From 1 comment
I would pay for a hosted version and would love to donate to this in general.
fblp on HN
Questions
How does refresh work after editing a doc
From 1 comment
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…
tornupinside on HN
Does it support SEO and images
From 2 comments
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…
tornupinside on HNThis is amazing! Do you have a plan to support subfolders? I'd love to use something like this for docs instead of a blog. I wrote about my setup here:…
ecesena on HN
Alternatives named
Zapier
From 1 comment
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,…
lewisjoe on HN
Ghost
From 1 comment
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.
xNeil on HN
Jekyll with GitHub Pages
From 1 comment
This is amazing! Do you have a plan to support subfolders? I'd love to use something like this for docs instead of a blog. I wrote about my setup here:…
ecesena on HN
You Need A Wiki
From 1 comment
If you're interested in a wiki which works in a similar way then take a lot at https://youneedawiki.com/
makethetick on HN