Oh man fix the site. If I scroll down it auto scrolls up after 2 seconds. And other bugs.
Sorry about that - I've pushed a fix to stop it from auto-scrolling which should be propagating through soon. Thank you for flagging this
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
#22The world needs less vibe coded slop, not more
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#23Just impossible to read the landing page on mobile due to endless carousel sliding which constantly returns you to the top of the page
I didn't have any "top of page" navigations that I didn't control going on.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#24Don’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)
Most are lucky to get a few sign ups.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#25Is this meant to replace databases?
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#26Don’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)
Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free.
A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#27Really 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.
You can do this now directly in the Google environment. Should be trivial to vibe code Google Apps Script to hit a Slack endpoint. You'd probably use an 'on edit' trigger to run the code.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#28"Ship now, pay later" you're not wrong.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#29Really 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.
That's a great suggestion, thank you
For your signup workflows, how sensitive would you be to latency? Would a 30 to 60 second delay be a dealbreaker, or are you looking for something that hits Slack the instant the row is created?
(The challenge with Google Sheets is we'd have to poll for changes)
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud SQL costs gazillions, sheet is free (other than selling your data)
Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free. A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?
Which works out at $100 USD / year. You might think that's trivial, but when you start provisioning multiple environments over multiple projects it starts to add up.
It's a shame that Google haven't managed to come up with a scale to zero option or serverless alternative that's compatible.