Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable or Google Sheets

Re:Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable o... by tylermenezes on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:11PM (#24044586)

FWIW we used Airtable to power one of our sites (https://labs.codeday.org/) and it was a huge mistake. Airtable has at least one hour-long downtime every month during the middle of the workday.

(The API was also really awful, e.g. bool is `true`/`undefined`, never false, you can't query table schemas, etc. But I imagine this app abstracts some of that away.)

Anyway I can't imagine building an app on top of Airtable, of the options I would 100% choose Google Sheets.

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Re:Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable o... by yokto on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @03:43AM (#24047644)

Google Sheets are changing their CORS header for their "Publish to Web" feature and breaking a ton of apps as you write this: https://support.google.com/docs/thread/56845119?hl=en

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Re:Launch HN: Stacker (YC S20) – Create Apps from Airtable o... by jibolso on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:53AM (#24046729)

I think having a message broker in-between the services and some sort of transient database should solve this, in a way.

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