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Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

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post #9

Is the Google Sheets API rate limit open enough for actual production use? I thought it was pretty restrictive, no more than 60 writes per minute, but I'm not sure about the reads restrictions.

Couldn't you cache the reads? Not many usages really require real-time from their data store.

Do you really want to deal with caching logic for what should be a simple API call? Sounds like a convincing argument to use whatever this product is.

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#12
post #5

Great concept. Congrats on launching. Do you have a sense for how much usage Google will allow on a given sheet or user? I.e. will Google shut down the API after a certain usage level? (Side-note, your SSL cert seems to be having trouble, i.e. www.zerosheets.com is correctly encrypted, zerosheets.com is not.)

Hello!! Google limits for me are:

300 Read requests per minute 300 Write request per minute

Since Ive just launched it, that number is far far away from being reach. (If it happens, the number can be increased).

Regarding the SSL cert, some other users pointed the problem but I can`t replicated. Tried with many different browsers. Im not sure about whats happening, it`s always working for me but I will keep digging.

Thank you for your comment bro :)

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#14
post #3

There's a help page that gives you all the code you need to do this. https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/js

Yep, if you want to implement it from scratch, thats an option (way more painfull then using zerosheets) :)

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#16

I'd like to plug PocketBase [0] for a similar use case. Last week I was looking for a place to store random data with API access, and was looking at making a Google Sheets backend, but PocketBase was easy and didn't have a 60 rpm quota [1]. Deploying to a cheap VPS was very easy with CapRover. [0] https://pocketbase.io/ [1] https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/limits

I loved your product!!

My infrastructure is 100% focused in scale so I think we can work together, we just need to share the costs.

Please send me a message here https://www.zerosheets.com/contact so I can get your contact.

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#17

Is the Google Sheets API rate limit open enough for actual production use? I thought it was pretty restrictive, no more than 60 writes per minute, but I'm not sure about the reads restrictions.

For now I`m setting no restrictions. Since it is an MVP, I`m trying to understand what a basic and a hard user would be. After a while, Ill figure out how to charge for it and what limitations should a free and a paid user have.

My Google API rate limit is way bigger then 60/minute.

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#19
post #5

Great concept. Congrats on launching. Do you have a sense for how much usage Google will allow on a given sheet or user? I.e. will Google shut down the API after a certain usage level? (Side-note, your SSL cert seems to be having trouble, i.e. www.zerosheets.com is correctly encrypted, zerosheets.com is not.)

Hello!! Google limits for me are: 300 Read requests per minute 300 Write request per minute Since Ive just launched it, that number is far far away from being reach. (If it happens, the number can be increased). Regarding the SSL cert, some other users pointed the problem but I can`t replicated. Tried with many different browsers. Im not sure about whats happening, it`s always working for me but I will keep digging.…

I get an error on Chrome as well.

From what I see, the Common Name for the cert at https://zerosheets.com is `*.ip-66-228-52-143.cloudezapp.io` rather than zerorsheets.com. It's issued by Let's Encrypt. www.zerosheets.com is issued by Amazon. Hope that helps.

Re: Show HN: Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app

#20
There are loads of good use cases for this. At one point in my career I had to somehow re-tag thousands of resources in multiple clouds, some were terraformed, many were manually created over the years.

The solution? Export them all to a Google Sheet with one tag per column. Edit and apply-on-save. Filter, sort, summarize, pivot all the much you want. It's incredible.

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