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Thanks and great question - appends are atomic via Google's Sheet API, but updates/deletes are currently positional based on row ID. It's 'last-write-wins' for now if there are multiple concurrent updates.
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.
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)
Sorry about that - I've pushed a fix to stop it from auto-scrolling which should be propagating through soon. Thank you for flagging this
This is really helpful thanks. I've just pushed a build to disable the scroll-jacking - ETA 5-10 mins!
Is this in the 'How it Works' section? I'll get that fixed - thanks for letting me know.
Hi all - a friend and I have been dabbling in the entrepreneur space for years, but we never really pulled the trigger because of our corporate jobs. We suffer from the same thing that plagues a lot of engineers: we know how to build products, but we are weak at distribution and marketing.
We feel that being able to build is becoming table stakes and the ability to actually get a product into people's hands is more important than ever. We built SheetNinja (https://sheetninja.io) to force ourselves to learn that side of the business from the ground up.
We chose a validated market (sheets-to-api) so we could focus on the "how to find users" problem rather than wondering if the category was useful. It also fits our current "vibe coding" workflow i.e. when we use LLMs or Replit to spin up an idea, a Google Sheet is often the fastest way to handle CRUD without the friction of setting up a traditional database.
We are looking for feedback on the tool itself and the landing page. We have a lot of visitors but a lower sign-up rate atm.
Thanks, in advance!
A friend and I are building Sheet Ninja (https://sheetninja.io).
It turns your Google Sheet into a live API.
We know the "Sheet to API" space is a little crowded, but we've always wanted to get better at distribution, marketing, and growth hacking. We needed a real product as a sandbox to learn, so we built a tool that we'd use ourselves.
There's a free tier. I'd love to hear any feedback on the product (or our marketing efforts!). Thank you!