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Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by tjchear »

franciscop wrote: post #120
tjchear wrote: post #116

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I use Next.js, but the sheet is loaded client side :) My next iteration would switch to Cloud sheets API though. That said, I wish I had stumbled upon your library when I first started out. It looks better designed than the one I initially used (which I promptly abandoned because it couldn't handle certain errors properly, and I decided to roll my own).

Thanks! I've been thinking of renaming it. Everyone who uses it loves it, but I have to first nag people into actually trying it and I think it's because it'd not very discoverable. What names did you use to try to find it if you don't mind me asking?

I googled for javascript read google sheets. A few libraries showed up and I tried them. They weren't very polished so I wrote my own instead.

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by tjchear »

gabagool wrote: post #104
tjchear wrote: post #50

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Got it! I bolded the text. Also added one for Article Curation. Thank you for your advice and suggestion!

I missed it even after your changes until I read this thread. Maybe modifying the CSS is too much of an ask, but I personally think the link color should be a bit differentiated, the link should be underlined, or the link should be moved since I didn't expect a link there.

It's most certainly not too much of an ask. I'll make the changes!

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by TJSomething »

tjchear wrote: post #28
zenojevski wrote: post #25

Not quite the same, but... Turn your Google Sheets into a beautiful Gopherhole :) https://github.com/zenoamaro/gophersheet A much closer transformation.

Ooh. Can you explain what a Gopherhole is?

I think a Gopherhole is to the Gopher protocol as a website is to HTTP.

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by andrei_says_ »

tjchear wrote: post #2

So from talking to people I see a need to quickly turn a spreadsheet of information into something visually pleasing. SheetUI is my response to that need. You give it a Google Sheet URL, pick a template, and tap in the columns where you want them to show up. In return you get a visually pleasing and responsive web page that you can embed on your site, or link to in your newsletter or chat with a client. Created with…

Why is React needed to display static HTML?

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by achow »

czzarr wrote: post #96
eyelidlessness wrote: post #22

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This looks really cool. I have a potential use case I'd consider using this for, but I don't want to make the sheet (or resulting page) public. Have you considered support for OAuth to retrieve private sheets?

Try Awesome Table, it's been here for years for exactly that purpose and is one of the very top G Suite Marketplace apps: https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/awesome_table/5608...

From reviews:

"..you have to pay £5,400 per year!"

"Even with the nonprofit pricing it would cost $900 per year."

"Pricing for singe user with one "app" is $60 per month. The "free" version only allows 100 "views" per month. Everytime you go to the page with the app and interface with the tools it counts as a "view". Everytime you refresh the page it is another "view"."

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by mikeryan »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #124
tjchear wrote: post #2

So from talking to people I see a need to quickly turn a spreadsheet of information into something visually pleasing. SheetUI is my response to that need. You give it a Google Sheet URL, pick a template, and tap in the columns where you want them to show up. In return you get a visually pleasing and responsive web page that you can embed on your site, or link to in your newsletter or chat with a client. Created with…

Why is React needed to display static HTML?

It's not?

But that being said I'm not sure this is static HTML either. You're going to need someway to parse and display that sheet data. Even if its server rendered as static HTML React isn't a bad way to go.

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by tjchear »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #124
tjchear wrote: post #2

So from talking to people I see a need to quickly turn a spreadsheet of information into something visually pleasing. SheetUI is my response to that need. You give it a Google Sheet URL, pick a template, and tap in the columns where you want them to show up. In return you get a visually pleasing and responsive web page that you can embed on your site, or link to in your newsletter or chat with a client. Created with…

Why is React needed to display static HTML?

Sheet is retrieved and parsed client-side. React lets me iterate faster. I also use Next.js, so where possible I can do server-side rendering before sending the rendered bits down the wire.

Re: Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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Post by abhayhegde »

Wonderful product! I was looking to build a page on a team that I am working with, but wanted a simple integration like this. Kudos!

I would like to know if you are going to add more features later. For example, informal 'About us' pages would have links to social media in their bios. So can we have more than primary and secondary buttons?

Also, it would be lovely to have profile photo frame customizable. It looks stylish to have the photo embedded in a circular frame for example.

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