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Posted by sxa001 9 hours ago

Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders(sheetninja.io)
57 points | 65 commentspage 2
rsafaya 9 hours ago|
Really good project for a quick data back end.

One feature suggestion: webhook support for row changes:

If my Sheet updates (say, a new waitlist signup), I'd want to trigger for e.g. a Slack notification. Supabase has something similar with their database webhooks. I use that extensively for kicking off signup workflows.

snoopen 8 hours ago||
You can do this now directly in the Google environment. Should be trivial to vibe code Google Apps Script to hit a Slack endpoint. You'd probably use an 'on edit' trigger to run the code.
sxa001 8 hours ago||
That's a great suggestion, thank you

For your signup workflows, how sensitive would you be to latency? Would a 30 to 60 second delay be a dealbreaker, or are you looking for something that hits Slack the instant the row is created?

(The challenge with Google Sheets is we'd have to poll for changes)

kent8192 4 hours ago||
I think it can be one option to achieve a tiny goal. Some companies often think that using AWS or GCP is too much of a stretch for a minimum target. So, it can be a good way to meet their request.
tyleo 9 hours ago||
This site is pretty broken. The project seems cool but I’d recommend a more static landing page. I bounced very quickly. Didn’t even make it to the bottom with all the distracting animations.
odest 9 hours ago||
I really like the idea of using Google Sheets for quick prototyping and maybe "vibe coding" without the friction of setting up a traditional DB.

I haven’t noticed a scrolling issues, btw

curbits 8 hours ago||
I 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
sxa001 8 hours ago|
Thank you! The idea of our target audience just vibe coding this themselves definitely gave us pause for thought while we were building it :)

We're thinking of playing around with the pricing right now to make sure it is cheaper to just use this than to spend the time and tokens recreating the logic. We will see how it plays out.

NicoJuicy 3 hours ago||
Did this 9 years ago :o, cached it though.
Leftium 6 hours ago||
I made a similar project: https://veneer.leftium.com

You can publish any publicly readable sheet/form (append rows with publicly available form):

- sample sheet: https://veneer.leftium.com/s.1RoVLit_cAJPZBeFYzSwHc7vADV_fYL...

- sample form: https://veneer.leftium.com/g.chwbD7sLmAoLe65Z8

xnx 7 hours ago||
A pay option like this definitely seems worse than the Firebase backend that AI Studio would automatically use.
mamday1 2 hours ago|
You do not need to go through these guys Google provides access to the URL to use the sheet as a database and also allows you to deploy Javascript and even host the site with AppScript (example https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbzYt_aXBdQlnMM7idlVD... )
TheTaytay 1 hour ago|
The +1 button doesn’t work?
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