Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive

A new Show HN project called HTMLDrive promises a very simple trick: take files sitting in your Google Drive, edit them in your browser, and publish them to a public web link with one click. No setup, no viewer account, and support for plain web pages or simple text formatting that turns into a page. On paper, it sounds like a dream for people who want a tiny website without wrestling with hosting services.

But the real show was in the comments, where the crowd instantly switched from “neat idea” to full-time internet detective mode. One commenter zeroed in on the pricing language and absolutely roasted the line about being free for up to 10 pages, joking that it sounded like a “stereotypical Turkish bazaar shopowner” trying to dodge the obvious question: what happens when you want page number 11? Another commenter brought the trust issues, saying it’s always worrying when deleting your data means emailing support, especially when the support email wasn’t obvious. That turned a simple launch into a mini privacy drama.

Then came the practical skeptics. One person basically asked, why serve HTML at all? Just send people the file, they shrugged. Another tossed in a possible terms-of-service warning, which added a faint whiff of “is this even allowed?” And in peak 2026 energy, someone casually declared that if AI can make the page for non-technical people, it can probably publish it too. So yes, the product is about easy web publishing—but the comments made it about pricing, trust, and whether the whole thing is genius, unnecessary, or one policy update away from chaos.