New comment by franciscop in "Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs"

I did something similar back in 2013-2014 for the initial Makers UPV blog[1], which was much later migrated to Ghost.

The underlying technology we used is drive-db[2], a library I made to use a spreadsheet as the database. Then just used an obscure-ish Google docs API to retrieve each article content. When you wanted to publish an article, you had to create the doc, publish to the web and copy the link to the spreadsheet.

This looks like a very well put together product of the hacky solution I did back in the day, so kudos!

Edit: the best feature of this is that several people can collaborate in real time on an article! Something that Wordpress doesn't have and was used a lot for us in the beginning.

[1] https://makersupv.com/

[2] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db

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