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Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
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Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#32I have done this for my own projects for years it’s great for projects that are only for me and gives me a very good db editor also. Cool project though the only risk I see is that if the target audience are vibe coders they will you known just vibe code an integration
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free. A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?
Which works out at $100 USD / year. You might think that's trivial, but when you start provisioning multiple environments over multiple projects it starts to add up. It's a shame that Google haven't managed to come up with a scale to zero option or serverless alternative that's compatible.
It is trivial to set up a database on GCP given that you know what you are doing and I would pay Google for that stability and support for setting up multi-tenancy and region.
Using Google spreadsheets as a backend will just cause them to charge everyone later.
Sheet Ninja isn't free. Even on their side, "free" does not mean what you think it means.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#34SQLite, SQLite + drizzle with WAL mode, push it to a VPS, do not waste your time on anything else :)
Thank me when things become super easy!
When things scale, SQLite will still be fine, will fit 99% of the vibe coders needs!
When they don't then migrate to what ever!
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#35SQLite, SQLite + drizzle with WAL mode, push it to a VPS, do not waste your time on anything else :) Thank me when things become super easy! When things scale, SQLite will still be fine, will fit 99% of the vibe coders needs! When they don't then migrate to what ever!
This requires technical skill
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#36I put Google Sheets as a backend (in production) when i wanted a select non technical people to be able to see and modify the data without the cost of building a backend.
I really wish auth was easier to setup for services though, i see no reason google can't provide this out of the box
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#37SQLite, SQLite + drizzle with WAL mode, push it to a VPS, do not waste your time on anything else :) Thank me when things become super easy! When things scale, SQLite will still be fine, will fit 99% of the vibe coders needs! When they don't then migrate to what ever!
> When things scale, SQLite will still be fine, will fit 99% of the vibe coders needs!
No it won't. SQLite is a poor choice at handling this, period. With all those hacks it still doesn't make any sense over something like PostgresSQL which is designed for that use case.
Yet another reason why I dismiss this nonsense of vibe coding.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud SQL costs gazillions, sheet is free (other than selling your data)
Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free. A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?
> Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day
Unless things have improved it's also hideously slow, like trivial queries on a small table taking tens of milliseconds. Though I guess that if the alternative is google sheets that's not really a concern.
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloud sql lowest tier is pennies a day, this ninja platform is also not free. A spreadsheet is a misclick away from corruption, why not spend another prompt on getting Claude to configure a db?
Which works out at $100 USD / year. You might think that's trivial, but when you start provisioning multiple environments over multiple projects it starts to add up. It's a shame that Google haven't managed to come up with a scale to zero option or serverless alternative that's compatible.
setup a DB project , use same cloud sql instance for all DBs. Did that for years on non prod or experimental projects.
$100 is a bargain for what you get in terms of resiliency
Re: Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders
#40Don’t really get the purpose for this apart from throw away projects. For vibe coders is it really “hours” setting up a database these days? GCP cloud sql + drizzle ORM is minutes and actually scales unlike a spreadsheet, heck Claude can even write you a deployment script and run it over GCP CLI.
Cloud SQL costs gazillions, sheet is free (other than selling your data)
>sheet is free (other than selling your data)
Except the sheets-to-api SaaS charges $9/month if you want more than 250 requests.