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Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

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

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Post by tjchear »

johnx123-up wrote: post #7
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?

Ah yes. SheetUI turns a spreadsheet into a simple but pleasing web page, while Glide turns them into an app. That said, adding interactivity, crud capabilities, and just generally making a web app out of it is definitely part of my feature roadmap.

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

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Post by dmlittle »

tjchear wrote: post #11
johnx123-up wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any comparison with Glide?

Ah yes. SheetUI turns a spreadsheet into a simple but pleasing web page, while Glide turns them into an app. That said, adding interactivity, crud capabilities, and just generally making a web app out of it is definitely part of my feature roadmap.

Not sure if you've heard of Sheet2Site[1] which I believe is a direct competitor.

[1] https://sheet2site.com/

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

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Post by tjchear »

dmlittle wrote: post #12
tjchear wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah yes. SheetUI turns a spreadsheet into a simple but pleasing web page, while Glide turns them into an app. That said, adding interactivity, crud capabilities, and just generally making a web app out of it is definitely part of my feature roadmap.

Not sure if you've heard of Sheet2Site[1] which I believe is a direct competitor. [1] https://sheet2site.com/

Yeah definitely! They generate an entire site complete with beautiful template and search functionalities. Really amazing work. My niche is smaller in comparison - SheetUI generates a single webpage for each sheet. That said, generating a complete website/webapp is definitely part of my feature roadmap.

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

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Post by tjchear »

Giorgi wrote: post #13

Might I ask what soft was used to record demo?

It's a Chrome extension called Screen Recorder. Very nifty! I've used it for my other projects and I'm happy with it. Only downside is it generates webm only - I had to put it through an encoder.

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

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Post by anderspitman »

Services like this need an easy way to allow people to use their own domain names, and we need to lower the barrier of entry to individuals registering domains and setting up HTTPS.

Imagine a SaaS that sells domains, then provides and easy (and open) API for delegating control over subdomains using OAuth2.

So I sign up for sheetui, and during the registration process they redirect me to a namecheap.com (where anderspitman.net is registered) OAuth2 server, I grant them control over sheetui.anderspitman.net, and they can now host there on my behalf.

sheetui.com also shouldn't have to deal with TLS certs. Why doesn't namecheap.com handle that for me?

HTTP requests can be proxied through something like ngrok which again uses OAuth2 tokens for auth. Now we have a stack where people can securely host websites from there phone.

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

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Post by tjchear »

FYI to folks who are trying it out now - on step 3, you'll have to click on an element on the preview UI so you could customize it. You can customize it to show a particular column by clicking the + button. Without customization, the resulting page will not show anything.

I'll fix this in the next iteration by providing defaults.

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

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Post by alin23 »

Great idea and execution! I've been using Liftoff[1] with Airtable as a DIY solution for this and while it's been easy to set it up and deploy it on Netlify, I still had to resort to writing a custom watch for changes daemon and forking the repo for adjusting the components layout.

I like that SheetUI has the things above built-in and more functionalities like adding buttons and a customisation UI.

Is a custom-CSS feature going to be available anytime soon? It would be great to be able to add some original styling to a website.

[1] https://github.com/postlight/liftoff

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