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Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document

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Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document

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Post by kevinmchugh »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #9

I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…

I saw them live last year and they had the stage lights off the whole show, you couldn't see them at all. They closed with their big hit and played the Beavis and Butthead clip making fun of it first. I think they're a little (playfully) antagonistic

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Post by lagt_t »

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #24
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #9

I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…

Most ways of putting up a conventional website don't make updates easy, unless you buy into some whole system, or pay someone. If Sheets is familiar and works, why not? Arguably the fact that the website is more likely to be accurate and up to date this way makes it more user friendly.

My 75 year old mother who struggles with the remote still can update her church wordpress.

Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document

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Post by alin23 »

I also have an iOS published app that has a Google Sheets “backend”: https://subsol.one

It’s an app for finding parties and festivals in Romania, and the sheets choice makes it super easy for my brother and his friends to add parties to the app.

I thought about adding a “real” database and tried some apps/frontends for them, but nothing made it easy enough to update and insert rows for non technical people.

I figured I could just download and cache the Sheets CSV, and use that for the database.

PS: the app is the one I had trouble getting published because the App Store reviewers deemed it“too simple”: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Dealing-with-App-Store-reject...

Re: Portugal. The Man – Official Website Is a Google Sheets Document

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Post by asdfman123 »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #9

I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…

But all that information is on the website

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Post by pests »

roywashere wrote: post #19
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #9

I love this band. But this is actually a terrible idea. Artist websites (IMO) have an actual purpose, keeping your audience updated with tour dates for one. Agents and venues looking for promo pictures. Festival planners looking to get a sense of your style etc., Artist websites have a variety of audiences. My bet would be that they started tracking tour dates on a Google Sheet and decided to share it to a tour manag…

They are not the only band to do this. My fav small Dutch band Woezels do the same, just for lolz https://woezels.nl/

That's even better because it seems to allow anyone to edit.

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Post by wingerlang »

alin23 wrote: post #64

I also have an iOS published app that has a Google Sheets “backend”: https://subsol.one It’s an app for finding parties and festivals in Romania, and the sheets choice makes it super easy for my brother and his friends to add parties to the app. I thought about adding a “real” database and tried some apps/frontends for them, but nothing made it easy enough to update and insert rows for non technical people. I figured…

Sameish here. I made hundreds of flashcards and other "matrixes" of data, this is pulled each time I build the app, which then converts the csv to json and stored in the app.

I also write articles in Sketch, because the app is heavy on illustrations. Using sketch allows me to draw the images directly while writing the articles. It is then sliced and exported into the app through a custom plugin.

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