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My first reaction: creating a website already is as easy as creating a Word doc.

How is this different (or how will it be different) from creating a Google Doc and sharing it with the public? Or using Google Sites for that matter?

(Not trying to jam you up -- genuinely interested in this and your answer.)

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Well, I am going to teach programming basics using Codecademy, and this project is a great tool which I will use so that my students can build things from the very first lessons and show their parents/friends their outcomes.

The project beats Google Sites by allowing you to edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript right from the browser with minimal efforts.

That's why I'm doing this — I think it's crazy that our best solution for creating a simple, one-off site is to use a collaborative document service and share the link. Google Docs is built for documents, and you can tell—hopefully this can evolve into a better solution to the use case where you want to create a really simple web page. Thanks for the feedback!

"As easy as a Word doc" is misleading then. Editing CSS and JS isn't as easy as Word, even if it's considered a feature and a convenience.

I do think it's a good, catchy phrase, but it isn't necessarily hitting your target market.

Are you pretty similar to a hosted Jekyll service, then?

Cool project. I'd kindly give you a pointer to try to collaborate with Codecademy team. They are super friendly and grounded guys to work with. I'm sure you can come up with a great joint project with them.

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