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dvdsgl

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    Comment #45599453

    Feels fun and promising, but switching input focus between windows is fiddly.

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    Comment #45595448

    You can surround yourself with floating terminals using the Blink app. Here I code from the couch surrounded by nvim, Claude Code, etc.: https://x.com/dvdsgl/status/194884047797084…

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    Comment #42561780

    Thank you! Please let me know how your second attempt goes. AI and no code platforms will merge into new high-level software creation tools. We already view Glide as a hybrid—try o…

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    Comment #42561769

    Yes, I’m also sad we couldn’t find a way to be affordable for everyone while also growing our business. We’ve learned that the personal/community app ‘market’ is impossible to grow…

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    Comment #42561664

    This is not true. We don’t build apps for customers, although there are Glide agencies that we match customers with. We’ve learned that some businesses prefer to pay for someone el…

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    Comment #42558972

    Retool is great, although they explicitly build for developers and building on retool requires writing glue code in their JavaScript template language, and writing SQL queries. In …

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    Comment #42558945

    Glide (from the article) adds simple pin-based auth and access control on top of the spreadsheet data. There’s also user and role-based data protection.

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    Comment #42558933

    Our customers who’ve switched from AppSheet tell us emphatically “yes” because of Glide’s ease of use, power, and the design of the apps it produces.

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    Comment #42558928

    We’ve made a lot of progress in a few years! Check again?

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    Comment #42558909

    Thank you!

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    Comment #42558895

    Hello! Founder of Glide FTA. Yes, many of our customers hit the issues you mentioned as they scale spreadsheet-based applications. We built Big Tables for this case: https://www.gl…

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    Comment #42558835

    Founder of Glide (YC W19) mentioned in the article — thanks for the recognition. This was not an ad from us, we were surprised by the coverage. Glide’s customers are businesses bui…

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    Comment #42558788

    Founder of Glide (YC W19) here. This article surprised us and is not paid.

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    Comment #42558777

    Yes, we agree. We have a mobile experience in the works! https://glideapps.com/create

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    Comment #41203944

    We specialize in creating custom software for businesses in your exact same situation at https://glideapps.com , and we have a large community of consultants who can build for you …

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    Comment #40019826

    Yes, we’ve powered millions of apps with Google Sheets.

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    Comment #39854761

    Congrats on the launch! This is exciting. The video demo is awesome: https://youtu.be/AZyrecVWnEs?si=j7JVKhhcUor1_y-f

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    Comment #37156327

    This is a very intriguing problem! Not trying to steal thunder, but quicktype ( https://github.com/quicktype/quicktype ) does all of this–JSON schema or TypeScript definitions to d…

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    Comment #32527374

    We created https://www.glideapps.com/ for the niche apps that people want, but Apple doesn't! Also powered by Google Sheets, as OP's app is.

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    Comment #32259325

    I was the lead designer of Unity. Unity was not a response to patent concerns, but rather the manifestation of a convoluted OEM strategy involving exclusive distribution of distinc…

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    Comment #31213185

    An app you can clone: https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/

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    Comment #30969833

    This is what we’re building with https://www.glideapps.com

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    Comment #29784106

    Glide | Frontend Engineer | Full-time Remote Glide is one of the top no-code tools, on a mission to create a billion new software developers by 2030. We're looking for a senior web…

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    Comment #28994392

    Glide ( https://www.glideapps.com/ ) is fine! We allow you to build polished PWAs and now full web apps using data in your Google Sheet (and soon Excel and Airtable). You can build…

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    Comment #28130511

    Congrats on the HN launch, Rune!