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

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

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Its done already http://nocodb.com/ This is fully open source

Any idea when they will have a decent implementation of forms (and maybe even subforms) with customized layouts? Last I checked it was ~on the road map.

Hey, Form views were made available with 0.11.42 (5 weeks ago). It can be customised with fields you need.

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

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Check out https://grid.is

I wish people would just show their product in their webpage instead of selling/telling what is can supposedly do

Scroll down to the “See what GRID can do” section.

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

#43

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

That page renders quite well on mobile, too. Not difficult, just a really nice transition.

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

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Its done already http://nocodb.com/ This is fully open source

An error occurred on client - that's all I see. Either it's adblock or my outdated browser, but, in any case, it's a no go.

Founder here - what browser & OS is it ?

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

#45

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.

I’m surprised at the top tier $249 per month plan, you still only allow 1GB max file size. Is this a technical limitation?

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

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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

I've been working with this for a while and I find it frustrating slow and unreliable. Especially working with an HTTP listener. Does anyone have better experience/advice?

I hit processing time limits when I tried to use it with no easy way to get around them.

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

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eheh thanks! Glad you liked the spreadsheet touch.

I’m surprised at the top tier $249 per month plan, you still only allow 1GB max file size. Is this a technical limitation?

for now yes. 1GB of cells with numbers, text and json still gives you a lot of room for millions of cells. We'll upgrade this throughout 2022 though.

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

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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

Yes, Sheets is amazing already. It is missing integrations out of the box though which is where Rows is trying to win. I notice this problem a while back and built Wax ( https://www.wax.run/ ). Wax adds the features you'd want from Rows to Sheets. We handle integrations and scheduling. Also, considering a lot of internal tools leverage SQL and Python, we make using those them from Sheets simple.

This is just my opinion, but it looks to me like you're competing with airtable/notion/retool rather than Excel.

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

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Quite nice but I wonder why the scene for this kind of tools is stuck in the Spreadsheets and pipes interface. Definitely powerful, Excel itself is an amazing tool, having an "Excel" that can fetch data is 10X more powerful as we see with Google Docs or other products too.

However, using these still feels wrong for me. It seems to be simplifying some stuff but can get very complex quickly and hard to debug when you want to do something more involved. At that point, writing code gets much easier than managing ever expanding complexity of the No-Code solutions.

IMHO someone some day will crack it and programming for data processing will become a visual endeavour.

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