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Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

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Re: Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

#61
I tried it and you definitely have got something going. Great synergy with google docs.

Curious if your tech works with a CSV file. Did you ever consider it? What will it take given your current stack? How google docs dependent are you? Are you okay with google buying/cloning you out if it comes to that?

Re: Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

#63

I tried it and you definitely have got something going. Great synergy with google docs. Curious if your tech works with a CSV file. Did you ever consider it? What will it take given your current stack? How google docs dependent are you? Are you okay with google buying/cloning you out if it comes to that?

Thank you! We actually started with JSON! It is trivial for us to support CSV and we are not tied to Google Sheets—we plan to add more data sources.

Re: Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

#67
This is an extremely risky business. It’s a simple concept - Google Sheets API to Firebase to App that we’ve used many times before, however Apple may decide to block these apps at any time as it has done in the past, eg see this article:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controve...

Edit: And its broken with a Firebase error "Error : could not handle request".

Re: Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

#69
post #67

This is an extremely risky business. It’s a simple concept - Google Sheets API to Firebase to App that we’ve used many times before, however Apple may decide to block these apps at any time as it has done in the past, eg see this article: https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/20/apple-revises-its-controve... Edit: And its broken with a Firebase error "Error : could not handle request".

i would hope apps like this are banned from the app store, too much auto generated garbaged. corporates can always use the enterprise app development program and that's who i think this is aimed at

Re: Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets

#70
post #63

I tried it and you definitely have got something going. Great synergy with google docs. Curious if your tech works with a CSV file. Did you ever consider it? What will it take given your current stack? How google docs dependent are you? Are you okay with google buying/cloning you out if it comes to that?

Thank you! We actually started with JSON! It is trivial for us to support CSV and we are not tied to Google Sheets—we plan to add more data sources.

Very cool.
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