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Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

#1

Post by tjchear » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages
sheetui.com

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

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Post by tjchear » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

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 React and Material-UI, plus some spreadsheet fetching and parsing code.

Glad to answer any questions!

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

#3

Post by fortylove » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

Very cool! I can see this being especially useful for communicating status of some process status, like for example, # of tests run today, outcome, etc.

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

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Post by wiremine » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

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…

Great idea! The video on the homepage is very useful; have you thought about linking to some examples?

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

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Post by tjchear » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:13 PM UTC

wiremine wrote: post #4

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…

Great idea! The video on the homepage is very useful; have you thought about linking to some examples?

Oh this is a good idea! Let me do that.

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

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Post by tjchear » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

fortylove wrote: post #3

Very cool! I can see this being especially useful for communicating status of some process status, like for example, # of tests run today, outcome, etc.

I never thought about this use case! I'll note this down and include it as part of the use case section :) Thanks for the idea!

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

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Post by johnx123-up » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

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…

Any comparison with Glide?

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

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Post by platetone » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

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…

very nice... curious if you could embed it easily into another site or even wordpress page? I have had an HOA membership page that is backed by a Google Spreadsheet with some crap Sheets plugin that's always having trouble.

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

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Post by vosper » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

You've done a wonderful job with explaining what it does, how, and why, all on the landing page.

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

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Post by tjchear » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

platetone wrote: post #8

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…

very nice... curious if you could embed it easily into another site or even wordpress page? I have had an HOA membership page that is backed by a Google Spreadsheet with some crap Sheets plugin that's always having trouble.

That is definitely possible. I can make some changes to generate an iframe embed code. Email or DM me on Twitter (@tjchear) if you want something customized :)