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Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
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Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#12I'm not sure I see why this needs to be a paid service. Unless I understand incorrectly, you can get the same result for free, self contained, with freely available code like this:
https://gist.github.com/richardblondet/ce87a397ef669d4d25dd2...
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#13Don’t really get the purpose for this apart from throw away projects.
For vibe coders is it really “hours” setting up a database these days? GCP cloud sql + drizzle ORM is minutes and actually scales unlike a spreadsheet, heck Claude can even write you a deployment script and run it over GCP CLI.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#14Don’t really get the purpose for this apart from throw away projects. For vibe coders is it really “hours” setting up a database these days? GCP cloud sql + drizzle ORM is minutes and actually scales unlike a spreadsheet, heck Claude can even write you a deployment script and run it over GCP CLI.
Cloud SQL costs gazillions, sheet is free (other than selling your data)
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#15Really good project for a quick data back end.
One feature suggestion: webhook support for row changes:
If my Sheet updates (say, a new waitlist signup), I'd want to trigger for e.g. a Slack notification. Supabase has something similar with their database webhooks. I use that extensively for kicking off signup workflows.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#16Hi all - a friend and I have been dabbling in the entrepreneur space for years, but we never really pulled the trigger because of our corporate jobs. We suffer from the same thing that plagues a lot of engineers: we know how to build products, but we are weak at distribution and marketing. We feel that being able to build is becoming table stakes and the ability to actually get a product into people's hands is more i…
Please share the repo for the API and we will happily provide technical feedback.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#17Do vibe coders need an api for an api? Sounds like something solvable with a skill
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#18Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#19Just impossible to read the landing page on mobile due to endless carousel sliding which constantly returns you to the top of the page
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#20I really like the idea of using Google Sheets for quick prototyping and maybe "vibe coding" without the friction of setting up a traditional DB.
I haven’t noticed a scrolling issues, btw