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

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Post by chris_st »

tjchear wrote: post #132
chris_st wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a personal website backed by a Google sheets page; however, it started not handing out proper CORS headers on the request, so it no longer works for me. Have you run across this? How did you solve it? Thanks!

I have not run across this issue before. How are you accessing the sheets though? Cloud Sheets API, or the json-in-script endpoint?

From the File menu, choose "Publish to the web", and then choose ".csv" format. This gives you a URL that (up until recently) you could pull with either "curl" (etc.) or from a web page (e.g., an SPA). Now the SPA thing fails with a CORS error. Other people on the web have seen it too.

Thanks!

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

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Post by detaro »

hogFeast wrote: post #111
detaro wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, it's wider than just GMail, I had missed the addition of Drive, but according to that link an audit is just required for > Drive - Any Drive API scope that permits an application to read, modify, or manage the content or metadata of a user’s Drive files, without the user individually granting file-by-file access. I could be wrong, but to me this suggests you can use the Sheets API against a user-specified docum…

Correct, an audit that can cost somewhere between $10-70k (you pay, not Google)...like I said in my first post.

Yes, sure. But again, according to the link you provided, you do not need that audit to use the Sheets API.

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

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Post by niutech »

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…

What's wrong with the existing solutions:

https://sheetsu.com

https://sheety.co

https://www.sheet2site.com

https://steinhq.com

https://www.glideapps.com

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

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Post by tjchear »

niutech wrote: post #145
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…

What's wrong with the existing solutions: https://sheetsu.com https://sheety.co https://www.sheet2site.com https://steinhq.com https://www.glideapps.com

Nothing wrong with them at all! They're each filling a different niche. Very well done too. I'm considering some of them as backend, actually.

My niche happens to be to quickly create a single visually pleasing web page from a sheet.

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

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Post by alyssaxuu »

niutech wrote: post #145
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…

What's wrong with the existing solutions: https://sheetsu.com https://sheety.co https://www.sheet2site.com https://steinhq.com https://www.glideapps.com

There's lots of platforms in that space and yet I am surprised that pretty much all of them are "read-only". I have yet to see one that allows writing to the sheet so users browsing the generated site can submit their own content or even use like counters or other dynamic functions that would update in the sheet.

I wrote an article about how to set up a platform like those mentioned + with write functionality (https://blog.usejournal.com/how-to-use-google-sheets-as-a-cm...) but I've always wondered if there would really be a market for such a thing. There clearly is anyway for read-only Google Sheet generated sites.

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

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Post by scurvyyy »

anderspitman wrote: post #17

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 very interesting. I'm trying to understand the use case a little better. Does it seem related to the emerging standard on delegated credentials for TLS (https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-delegation/)?

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

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Post by edusig »

I think the greatest challenge will be creating enough elements/visualizations and customization to please most customers.

Our team at Sheet.Best (https://sheet.best) was just talking about reducing the entry barrier for our services and one of the ideas was something like this.

Nice to see more competition on the "no code" approach to use spreadsheets as databases :).

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