You've done a wonderful job with explaining what it does, how, and why, all on the landing page.
The demo video is great. The only thing that could make it better is if you put the finished product in the beginning, then show how it's done.
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#42I can see another variation of this being useful as well. Instead of loading live data all the time, it loads the data at time of publishing and creates a static html page with an option to auto-publish to github pages or netlify or something like that.
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#43Great 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 fe…
Thanks for showing me Liftoff! The generated websites look great. I'll see what I can learn from it.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great idea! The video on the homepage is very useful; have you thought about linking to some examples?
I added one so far (Product Catalog), you can click on it in the use case section. More to come :)
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#45Awesome work! I can see another variation of this being useful as well. Instead of loading live data all the time, it loads the data at time of publishing and creates a static html page with an option to auto-publish to github pages or netlify or something like that.
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#46I'm guessing you guys use Liquid based on the curly braces? It looks like you have a pretty nice UI for manipulating the dynamic data, but if you're interested, my product helps people write Liquid: https://www.dropkiq.com/
Let me know if you're interested. Otherwise, best of luck with your product!
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#47Services 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 andersp…
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I added one so far (Product Catalog), you can click on it in the use case section. More to come :)
Nice! I would recommend making the link clearer: unless I knew it was there, I would have missed it.