Google acquires AppSheet

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Post by sologuardsman2 » Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 9:26 PM UTC

Google acquires AppSheet
techcrunch.com

Re: Google acquires AppSheet

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Post by pg_is_a_butt » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 5:38 AM UTC

#nocodelol

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Post by petagonoral » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

Those Oath sites really do love tracking before you even hit the article.

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Here is a better source with more info on AppSheet included: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/14/google-acquires-no-code-a...

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Post by zubairq » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 12:47 PM UTC

Personally I think that this is a great buy for google as they needed more than app maker and google sheets

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Post by obahareth » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

Very interesting, this seems very related to them force-migrating everyone to the new Sheets API that has a number of missing features.

https://www.gmass.co/blog/google-sheets-api-v4-bullshit/

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Post by julienfr112 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

With the share of the online spreadsheet market google has, I think they should not be allowed to buy any startup in this market.

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Post by xnyan » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

I’m really excited about the idea of the building applications being available to more people and I think that in theory there’s definitely a class of application that should not require extensive or even very much programming knowledge at all.

That said, I have not personally found many examples of “paint by numbers” built apps that look and feel great. I’d love to see some examples of anybody knows of a good applications that were made WYSIWYG style.

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Post by Scarbutt » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 5:38 PM UTC

Watching appsheet's video demo, really impressive.

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Post by wayneftw » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

julienfr112 wrote: post #6

With the share of the online spreadsheet market google has, I think they should not be allowed to buy any startup in this market.

It’s not a spreadsheet, it’s a mobile app builder that can use a spreadsheet to access data.

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Post by tracker1 » Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 6:48 PM UTC

xnyan wrote: post #7

I’m really excited about the idea of the building applications being available to more people and I think that in theory there’s definitely a class of application that should not require extensive or even very much programming knowledge at all. That said, I have not personally found many examples of “paint by numbers” built apps that look and feel great. I’d love to see some examples of anybody knows of a good applic…

Something like a distributed version of Access could work pretty well for a lot of use cases.