Gdocs-me-up: a high-fidelity Google Docs exporter
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Over the years I had written dozens of Google Docs documents, that I wanted to post to my website. Not only Google Docs's publish feature is broken and incomplete, Google does not index Google Docs either. So I set out to fix it for myself using AI agents. Sharing here in case someone else finds it useful.
HN · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 23 upvotes (top 25%) · 0 views
Niche: document and file conversion tools · 216 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -4% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 216 launches in document and file conversion tools →
Could you build this?
Yes The Google Docs REST API provides full document structure JSON that can be parsed and converted into clean HTML, Markdown, or static web pages with standard scripts.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Docs, smalldocs
Feature requests: Google Apps Script add-on, export directly from GDocs without local CLI, preserve table formatting
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 111 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
- ReadGDocs · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Docszero · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Content AI · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Kayabyte Accessibility Checker · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- HTMLDrive · hn · 2026-07-07 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Convert PDF to Google Sheets · ph · 2026-10-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- AI Html to PDF Exporter for Blog Readers · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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