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Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by jon49 on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:40PM (#17269485)
Pretty neat. I'm assuming you cache the results from the google sheet and update them when the google sheet is updated?

Another idea. Would be to have a "under maintenance" flag you could mark in the google sheet and then only the updates would happen on a secondary test site. When you are satisfied with the results you can change the flag to go live.

Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by azarai on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:02AM (#17272609)
Thanks for the feedback.

The initial version did not cache indeed. On each request, the Google Sheet API was hit. I changed that with today's release and the sheet is cached (shared cache). To update the site, just append ?refresh=true to the URL.

I like your idea of a kind of staging system. Have to think about how to solve that.

Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by chriscoco on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:26AM (#17187443)
I like the approach. This way even Generation Excel users can easily create and update the content of such directory sites.
Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by azarai on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @09:43AM (#17187545)
Thanks. It's totally by intention. I believe tools should be as simple as possible and do one thing well.
Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by mapster on Thursday May 31, 2018 @03:05PM (#17199096)
useful! the maps are blank in the examples btw
Re:Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsh... by azarai on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:44AM (#17265897)
Thanks. Seems to happen sometimes when Google Sheet isn't geolocating fast enough. Might remove the Google Script in the future.