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Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by zephyrwhimsy » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by mamday1 » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

You do not need to go through these guys Google provides access to the URL to use the sheet as a database and also allows you to deploy Javascript and even host the site with AppScript (example https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzYt_aXBdQlnMM7idlVD... )

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by sroerick » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

This is a great project, very cool, but it is actually insane to me that CRUD is so apparently hard that Google Sheets is the best solution

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by ugh123 » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 6:44 PM UTC

sroerick wrote: post #63

This is a great project, very cool, but it is actually insane to me that CRUD is so apparently hard that Google Sheets is the best solution

What's old is new again: Filemaker Pro

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by aitchnyu » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

Umm, does Google sheets let you fetch rows in O(log(n)) time or aggregate numbers?

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by lelanthran » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 7:04 PM UTC

misiek08 wrote: post #14

robotswantdata wrote: post #13

Don’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 costs gazillions,

WTF is "Cloud SQL"?

I have a postgresql server running on a $5/m VPS that I add DBs to as and when I explore some new idea.

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by mememememememo » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

sxa001 wrote: post #21

mememememememo wrote: post #7

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

Thanks! No need to be sorry :)

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by Andrex » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

sroerick wrote: post #63

This is a great project, very cool, but it is actually insane to me that CRUD is so apparently hard that Google Sheets is the best solution

The attractiveness of a spreadsheet comes in the display and the charts, etc.

For a serious database doing actual transactions, I'm not sure about the utility.

Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by Andrew_McCarron » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 7:30 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders

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Post by sxa001 » Sun, Mar 29, 2026, 7:40 PM UTC

Andrew_McCarron wrote: post #69

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Thanks and great question - appends are atomic via Google's Sheet API, but updates/deletes are currently positional based on row ID. It's 'last-write-wins' for now if there are multiple concurrent updates.