Using Google Apps to generate a simple site from a form

I was blue skying with a friend the other day and came up with checklist to build a simple canned website from a form submission, using Google Apps and Google Apps Scripting.

1. User goes to a form.  (More on creating a form)
2. User submits images, video links, text, email, background color, etc.
3. That all goes into a google spreadsheet, which triggers the building of a site.  Here’s trigger info.
4. You can automatically build a google site.  Here’s the api: site creation, page creation.  If you want your own domain name (example.com) I think you can do that, but you’d need to integrate with a DNS service to set that up–this part bears a little more investigating.
5. If desired, you can generate the QR code for the site.
6. If you need to tell the form submitter that the site is created, you can email them a link to the QR code so they can print it out.
7. You can even remove content from the site via cron (see triggers link up above), though you can’t automatically delete the site.
8. It’s conceivable you could even use google checkout to charge users beforehand (though this is a bit less supported).

What’s great is that you don’t need to have any tool other than a browser to build this entire stack.  Google is truly creating a toolkit/macro language in the cloud.