Google Doc Templates for Startups
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·May 9, 2025donohoe
Sam_Odio
Interesting - these have exactly the design polish I'd expect from working at FB, Twitter, DBX, etc... From what I've seen most of the people I've worked with at those companies care more about the quality of my thinking than the polish of my docs.
Paul - great work. Was thinking of doing the same. I'd love to collaborate on some sort of shared resource/repo of docs like these (github?) and contribute a few of my own.
pkoullick92
Yeah, love that Sam. I'm not much a github user myself but if you have your own templates I'd love to just link to them from my site!
pedalpete
I don't know why you're getting down voted, this is an absolutely apt comment.
A shared repo on github would be great! I was wondering....where am I going to bookmark this so I'll remember to go back to it in the future. Though, how many of the people who would benefit most from these docs don't use git?
Though I may copy the docs into a confluence template.
farceSpherule
If only people would document... When I was a SW Eng Mgr, I had to stop approving commits/deploys because engs would not do something as simple as javadoc.
Once people started missing deliverables and having their comp and ratings impacted, documentation shot to 100%.
I looked through about 8 of these templates before feeling the need to stop. While the content is mostly solid, the design and layout make them hard to use in practice.
I really appreciate the effort behind this, but they could benefit from a design pass to make them more usable and visually coherent.