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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think with the exception of Sheet2Site (and SheetUI, of course), the aforementioned platforms do provide write to sheet as well. Judging by the fact that they've been around for a while, I believe there is a market for platform with write functionality.

Your article is pretty well written! More people should look to using sheets before hand-rolling a heavy weight solution.

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

#152

This product is great... But it makes me feel sad to think about all the webpages that hide a small amount of tabular data in an oversized web UI. I want the reverse of this service - I just want the raw data from any web page in a spreadsheet ready to filter and sort and define new columns as I please...

There's a research project at MIT trying to do this - https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/salon2020/

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

#153

Wonderful product! I was looking to build a page on a team that I am working with, but wanted a simple integration like this. Kudos! I would like to know if you are going to add more features later. For example, informal 'About us' pages would have links to social media in their bios. So can we have more than primary and secondary buttons? Also, it would be lovely to have profile photo frame customizable. It looks st…

Hi abhayhegde, I just added more social media icon links to all of the UI components, so you can add links to social media.

Circular frame coming soon!

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

#154

Wonderful product! I was looking to build a page on a team that I am working with, but wanted a simple integration like this. Kudos! I would like to know if you are going to add more features later. For example, informal 'About us' pages would have links to social media in their bios. So can we have more than primary and secondary buttons? Also, it would be lovely to have profile photo frame customizable. It looks st…

Hi abhayhegde, I just added more social media icon links to all of the UI components, so you can add links to social media. Circular frame coming soon!

Thanks much! I just checked this out, it looks amazing and simple.
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