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Re: Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration

#21

I don't have much of an opinion on the product, it seems fine, but I greatly enjoyed the cute little spreadsheet styling on the pricing table[1], it actually made me laugh. Good design, nice work. [1]: https://rows.com/pricing

eheh thanks! Glad you liked the spreadsheet touch.

Re: Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration

#22

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Is there a solution to version control/deterministically see/deploy active scripts? How do you manage all the scripts? I've used it to compile/summarize spreadsheets and serve as a simple endpoint (testing webhooks), but not much more.

You should look at clasp by Google https://github.com/google/clasp Have used it in past to do exactly what you asked for.

Woah seems like Google should promote this instead of the Apps Script API on their Apps Script docs. Deploy, CVS, and TS capability to boot. Thanks!

Re: Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration

#27

The real power of this product is as a replacement of BI/Visualization tools. Imagine being able to connect Rows to a database and create "governed" sheets that look/work like dashboards with charts, tables, filters, etc. It would be a killer product because most users are familiar with spreadsheets already. Many users end-up copying data from dashboards into spreadsheets (gsheet, excel, etc) so why not skipping the…

What prevents anyone from doing this in Excel/Google sheets? I've been doing Excel-based BI dashboards for 15 years, connecting to all kinds of backends. Excels have tables/charts/filters/buttons/pivots

Re: Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration

#28
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Rows looks cool, but nowhere does it answer: how many rows can a sheet cope with?

right now it is 20k rows and 104 cols (so ~2M cells). But that's changing soon to 5-10M.

20k rows to 10M rows or 2M cells to 10M cells?

Re: Rows.com – Spreadsheet that supports external API integration and collaboration

#30

If you haven't looked into it yet - Google Apps Script [0] is an incredibly powerful system when combined with Google Sheets. You can integrate lots of business processes and external systems (rest,soap,databases etc) together and integrate with classic spreadsheet functionality, we use it a lot in our business! [0] https://developers.google.com/apps-script

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