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

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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.

This is the sort of thing that makes perfect sense in retrospect but I never thought about. Thanks for the tip!

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

#42
Awesome 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.

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

#43
post #19

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 fe…

SheetUI is built using Material UI, which I'm still getting the hang of. It certainly has support for parameterized themes. As for custom CSS, I'm going to have to look into how to do that technically while making sure there's no security implications.

Thanks for showing me Liftoff! The generated websites look great. I'll see what I can learn from it.

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

#44
post #34
post #4

Earlier 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 :)

Nice! I would recommend making the link clearer: unless I knew it was there, I would have missed it.

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

#45

Awesome 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.

Ooh, yes. I can see how this could be something that is sorely needed. Added to my list of feature exploration!

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

#46
This looks really cool! I love your quick video that shows how to use the product and build a great looking UI so quickly.

I'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!

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

#47

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 andersp…

This is an interesting use case (the delegation of subdomain). Sounds like something that can be built atop Amazon Route 53. Have you seen this need come up a lot?

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

#49
post #29

Does this only work with public sheets?

For now, yes. I'm hard at work building Google Sheets API integration so you won't have to make your sheet public.

But presumably, that is going to cost you $15k or whatever it is now to be an approved user of Google API?

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

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post #34

Earlier 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.

Got it! I bolded the text. Also added one for Article Curation. Thank you for your advice and suggestion!
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