I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by cpeterso » Mon, Dec 30, 2024, 6:25 AM UTC

I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
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Post by FredPret » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:19 AM UTC

I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!

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Post by xnx » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:27 AM UTC

Is Glide better than AppSheets?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:40 AM UTC

FredPret wrote: post #2

I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!

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Post by whatever1 » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:44 AM UTC

Let go of your complex solutions. Spreadsheets were the right answer all along.

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Post by abound » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:46 AM UTC

FredPret wrote: post #2

I've recently been toying with the idea of turning my overly complicated weightlifting Excel into an overly complicated me-only webapp / testflight app. It can't be worse than Excel for iOS!

Self-plug: I wrote a not-too-overly complicated app for tracking my strength training (a 5/3/1 derivative)

https://github.com/bcspragu/stronk

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Post by Neywiny » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:47 AM UTC

Tbh sheets has gotten a lot better over the years. It's not hard to autofill and other things that used to be impossible or too obscure to figure out. I'll stick with the free platform for things just for me

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Post by tekknolagi » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:48 AM UTC

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Post by gunalx » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:50 AM UTC

Why lock down to a nocode tool instead of just hacking together a simple html5 page?

Ai assistants have speed up the prototype workflow for doing less code/design.

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Post by hipadev23 » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:55 AM UTC

gunalx wrote: post #9

Why lock down to a nocode tool instead of just hacking together a simple html5 page? Ai assistants have speed up the prototype workflow for doing less code/design.

Presumably so they can hook into an external datasource