Sheetsu
Dev tools
api backend from spreadsheet
SHOW HN2015
357points
98comments
#34of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 12 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 11 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple way to get spreadsheet data into prototypes and small projects
From 3 comments
Really great start! I could see this being very useful. If you were to extend the functionality to include full CRUD on entities, I think I would start using it immediately on…
jmhuret on HNNice way to bypass zapier.com for some simple stuff because they can get expensive quickly. I just started using it to store a log of supersaas.com appointments in a Google…
speleding on HNGreat My blog[1] uses a static side generator called middleman[2] and I was looking for a way to share 'quotes' in the website's subtitle. This seems to be the best solution! I…
atmosx on HN
Good alternative to Zapier for simple tasks
From 1 comment
Nice way to bypass zapier.com for some simple stuff because they can get expensive quickly. I just started using it to store a log of supersaas.com appointments in a Google…
speleding on HN
Objections
Google Sheets does not handle heavy load; throttling and timeouts
From 3 comments
I've used Google Spreadsheet as an "API" before (manually, not using this wrapper), and it is definitely not made to be used as such. Under heavy load, it slows down or times…
rubbingalcohol on HNUsed this approach at a previous company and was amazed at first. Wondered why it wasn't more commonly used. A poor mans API! Whats not to like?? Then I found out why: when put…
vikingcaffiene on HNWe had a similar experience. Google started giving us "Sharing quota for this file has been exceeded" errors.
RachelF on HN
Requested access to all Google Drive files was a privacy concern
From 2 comments
wow, it requires to access all my googledrive data and the spreadsheets.
xchip on HNI see that you request access to 'view and manage' the spreadsheets and files in my Google Drive? Is this for each spreadsheet/file or just the one I've linked to the in URL?
Abundnce10 on HN
No CORS support so client-side JavaScript cannot call it
From 2 comments
So I threw this into a website to try and load some data into a table, and get: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sheetsu.com/apis/d54d6315?sort=Description&order=asc. No…
mkelley82 on HNI ran into the same thing. Sheetsu apparently doesn't have CORS (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/) enabled so it won't work from client-side JS right now.
pseudosavant on HN
Not truly RESTful; uses JSON status codes instead of HTTP status codes
From 1 comment
API doesn't look very REST to me. It is basically just using HTTP as a JSON transport. The JSON contains a "status" code which appears to loosely follow the HTTP status code…
nbevans on HN
Requests
CORS support
From 2 comments
So I threw this into a website to try and load some data into a table, and get: XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://sheetsu.com/apis/d54d6315?sort=Description&order=asc. No…
mkelley82 on HNThat'll be great. Is CORS support on the roadmap too?
pseudosavant on HN
PUT and DELETE support
From 2 comments
Really great start! I could see this being very useful. If you were to extend the functionality to include full CRUD on entities, I think I would start using it immediately on…
jmhuret on HNYou can POST your data. PUT and DELETE soon.
michaeloblak on HN
Access to multiple sheets in a workbook
From 2 comments
Is there a way to get data from each sheet in a workbook? I'd love to use this, it is so simple. But it only seems to get the first sheet in my workbook.
philbo87 on HNAwesome! FWIW, my needs don't require any sort of "relational" concept as some comments have suggested, I just need to be able to do all existing operations on each sheet in the…
philbo87 on HN
Access limited to a single file, not all Drive files
From 2 comments
I see that you request access to 'view and manage' the spreadsheets and files in my Google Drive? Is this for each spreadsheet/file or just the one I've linked to the in URL?
Abundnce10 on HNPerfect! That was the only thing holding me back from getting started. Nice work, BTW!
Abundnce10 on HN
HTTPS support
From 1 comment
I would really prefer something like this to be a local library or something, adding another remote service in between negatively affects security and reliability. Especially in…
TD-Linux on HN
Questions
How to prevent others from GETting the API if they know the URL
From 1 comment
Awesome API, but one question. How do you prevent other people from doing a GET once they know your sheetsu API url?
permeable on HN
Is there an API rate limit
From 1 comment
Cool. Is there any API rate limit?
joeyspn on HN
Whether relational data between sheets is supported
From 1 comment
Will you maintain relationship between sheets? For many API use-cases, I'd expect my data to be relational.
JayeshSidhwani on HN
Alternatives named
Cloudstitch
From 1 comment
Cloudstitch is another service that gives you a RESTful interface over a Google Sheet. http://www.cloudstitch.com/ I made a video showing how to send a Raspberry Pi's temperature…
staticvar on HN
Tabletop
From 1 comment
Google Spreadsheets is awesome as a quick and dirty CMS. I use it all the time at the newspaper i work for, in combination with Tabletop (https://github.com/jsoma/tabletop). Only…
huskyr on HN
Blockspring
From 1 comment
Sort of related (but the other way around): https://www.blockspring.com/
madisonmay on HN
SpreadServe
From 1 comment
You can do that with SpreadServe[1] now. Instead of Google docs it uses real Excel .xls spreadsheets and supports VBA and XLL addins. It turns your spreadsheets into async…
osullivj on HN
CalcFusion
From 1 comment
An alternative is also http://calcfusion.com/ ( disclaimer, I work there and we just launched ). It uses xls spreadsheets and is more oriented towards business rules and…
julienmarie on HN
Sheetrock
From 1 comment
I've used sheetrock (https://github.com/chriszarate/sheetrock) with good success in the past. But this definitely seems more refined.
kleebeesh on HN