Hey PH 👋 Super excited to launch this (and very tired) YOU DON'T NEED WORDPRESS: Every time I log into Wordpress, my head hurts. I love Google Docs so I had the shower thought to use Google Drive as a CMS for a blog. I wanted to build something: 😎Dead simple and easy to use 🛠Get set up in a breeze 📝Start writing immediately! 💪Access to powerful Google Docs features ⚙️Highly customizable (tables, shapes, charts export with ease) 🚫No markdown 💻Open source Cool example: Export native gDocs charts, tables, formatting with ease: https://www.youdontneedwp.com/pa... HOW I BUILT THIS: I set a goal to build and launch this product in 24 HOURS! I live streamed the whole process on Twitch! [Recorded live stream 👉 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/313...] 5,000 people came to watch the live stream! It was nerve-racking and epic to have thousands of people watch me program, provide feedback, and ask questions. Special thanks to @alec_joness and many others! P.S. I'm sorry my Google API account is not fully approved/verified - I sent in the application and should hear back soon. Thanks for reading and let me know any feedback you have on the product!

This is absolutely insane in a good way. Many people can learn from your sheer persistence and rigor! 👏👏👏

Interesting experiment :) Although bragging about exhausting yourself with work and 'you don't need X'-type of products aren't my cup of tea, I thought I'd give it a try and see if it really removes the need for WordPress || [insert CMS/blogging platform here]. It's quite featureless right now (totally understandable!), but it gets the job done, which is creating a simple page that shows content from a Google Docs file. So the most basic functionality is there. Also, besides the warning from Google (which I understand is temporary), the sign up process was smooth 👍 I couldn't find any info, so I want to ask: do you have any plans for the following? - working homepage (currently blank?) - posts index page - taxonomies (categories or tags), w/ index pages - pagination for index pages - pretty permalinks - search - open graph/social meta tags - custom code (i.e. add analytics script) - embeds (video, tweets, forms, etc) - sitemap, RSS Besides these basic requirements for blogging, I also couldn't find: - a way to change my password - a way to delete my account (had to revoke Docs access) - a way to get to my homepage (had to manually remove the post ID from the 'view draft' URL) - a link to the repo - it says on the homepage that it's open source? I know my comment looks a bit 'negative', but please don't take it the wrong way: this is my honest feedback on your current (very early) iteration, and I'm genuinely curious what your plans are with it. Cheers!

Amazing in 24 hours! Great job! How I can connect my custom domain?

Wow I went offline for a day & Pat already launched a startup till I came back 🤣 Many people (like me ^^) just keep thinking on their next idea for weeks & you went from idea to launch in mere 17 hours Incredible Pat 👏

Great idea! I know it's early days but I'd be interested in things like custom domains and analytics .

It was very cool watching you build this throughout the day. Not many people could stay that focused on something for 17 hours! Congrats on all the success 🎉

This is super cool. From idea do launch in 17 hours. We can learn from that! Very inspirational Pat!

I learned about this on reddit last night and I was watching Pat for a couple of minutes working live. Impressive and you gotta have balls to do such experiment. To all the potential haters: this project was done in 24 hours, while most people don’t go out of dreaming and planning stage for their big idea. Congrats!

How about using Medium publications for blogging?

I really love the idea and the live streaming and achievement in under 24 hours is an inspiration to all makers!

I would really consider using this as a blogging tool if I could connect a custom domain and do basic SEO, page tagging etc

Pros:

Super cool and done in under 24 hours

Cons:

Couldn't view my blog

🎉 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!

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?)

Liked the idea

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

Hard to built trust on this

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.

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.

Amazing! Also, the idea is super cool imho. Pat, you're my role model now :D

Nice! Love the afford! 🙌 Do you do anything to clean the code/formatting that comes out of g-docs?

Great ideas. Thank you

Love it!