I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps • Hacker News Board

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by FlamingMoe » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:56 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.

True that Claude can generate a simple working prototype in a single prompt. But there's still the friction of deploying the app, making it accessible across devices, and easily managing updates. Which something like Glide streamlines for non-technical users.

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by Mistletoe » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 1:57 AM UTC

whatever1 wrote: post #5

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

I organize my life with spreadsheets and it works great. Running Spreadsheet, Health Spreadsheet, Investing Spreadsheet, Gardening Spreadsheet, on and on. :) It's just the best way to examine the data that is your life and have any hope of remembering the past and improve the future.

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by dcreater » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:00 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!

This is exactly what I've wanted to do for a long time. All the apps in the app store are money sucking or ad ridden and unnecessarily cluttered.

I want a simple front end that lets me log lifts to a sheet/database

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by rdiddly » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:08 AM UTC

The hack quotient on this is high, so that's good, though ironically it's hacking around all the BS we put up with (languages, frameworks) to get a programming project up and running!

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by HaZeust » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:10 AM UTC

hipadev23 wrote: post #10

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

so can a simple HTML5 page with a jquery script tag

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by lurn_mor » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:11 AM UTC

xnx wrote: post #3

Is Glide better than AppSheets?

Easier, but more expensive in the long run.

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by drekipus » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:12 AM UTC

HaZeust wrote: post #15

hipadev23 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Presumably so they can hook into an external datasource

so can a simple HTML5 page with a jquery script tag

I've always heard of completely devoid out of touch developers but this is the first I've seen it so pronounced.

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by e12e » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:14 AM UTC

Opening Glide on my phone, I'm greeted with:

> Open Glide on a large screen to build apps.

I get it - but a little ironic that one can't get started with an existing sheet...

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by est » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:14 AM UTC

I keep changing the last part of Google spreadsheets URL from /edit to /preview

Much better loading time.

Re: I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps

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Post by deweywsu » Tue, Dec 31, 2024, 2:17 AM UTC

Glide appears pretty cool, except that the next level up plan over the free one is $69 per month, more than a little steep for most personal users. I myself am wondering if there are any good projects out there that do similar things but that use either local databases or even browser storage?