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Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by foxbee »

hardtke wrote: post #16

I've been asked to maintain the contact info for a non profit club. Something like this is almost what I need, but I would also need to be able to edit existing entries as well as to run some simple queries (who has not paid their dues?). Does any such cloud based open source software exist? CRM systems are overkill, and there are some downloadable tools, but nothing cloud based AFAIK.

I would go with Budibase - it's free, has multi-step forms, you can use an external db, or use Budibase's built-in database. You can also automate notifications when a new contact is added.

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by dmje »

globalise83 wrote: post #27
a_band wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yikes. Hadn't considered that. Hopefully not.

Change it to Sheetdonkey. Donkeys are cool and you only have to change one letter everywhere.

Yeh but then the brilliant "infinite monkeys" doesn't work on the pricing page [https://sheetmonkey.io/pricing.html].

I mean, maybe infinite donkeys would do excellent Shakespeare too...

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by a_band »

sirius87 wrote: post #35

Each year for my nephew's birthday, I set up a web page with a guestbook for people we know to leave messages for him. I'm "tripod.com guestbook CGI scripts" years old. Each year I intend to write a tiny script that accepts form data and stores it in a Google Sheet, and deploy it to AWS Lambda. Maybe I'll finally do it this year? Or maybe I'll use your service ;)

That's awesome. What a cool idea. :-)

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by a_band »

midrus wrote: post #33

It looks great, and very professional. I'm impressed. Did you build it yourself? Because it honestly looks like a full blown company had built it by how good it looks from the outside. If so, you're a f**g machine!! Congrats.

Thanks so much, midrus! I did build it myself. Super kind to hear.

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by a_band »

sheepy wrote: post #41

Great project! The artwork makes it look very friendly. Did you have any issues with Google API quotas?

Thanks! In regards to API quotas, the rate limiting happens on a per-user basis so we manage to stay away from the limits for most users. That being said, I did build the system with a retry mechanism with delays so in case something does hit a limit, it shouldn't be lost.

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by mro_name »

I wonder what this enthusiasm to throw data at google should be good for.

I made a commandline binary https://mro.name/form2xhtml that turns server side form dumps back into html for ease of processing.

Put that into your tool pipeline (offline processing is fine) and be good. No 3rd parties involved.

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