Build apps on top of Google Sheets

Re:Build apps on top of Google Sheets by rektide on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:16AM (#27919877)

Incredible pro-user move. I tried to get an early start-up I worked for to do this. Over the years they've spent hundreds of man hours developing a custom editing grid, and it's absolutely one of the scariest/most crazy pieces of the system. And it's no where near as powerful/flexible/well-known/robust for users.

But yeah, the comments below about rate limits & bans? I was probably wrong to try to advocate Sheets, however much technical sense it made, however good a working experience would have been.

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Re:Build apps on top of Google Sheets by cosbgn on Friday July 23, 2021 @03:55AM (#27928304)

I think rate limits & bans are mainly horror stories. Limits are 100/100 seconds per user, I think what most companies miss is that they need to send the token of the users, your token also work but it count all against your limit, while user tokens count towards user limits. In any case we are building our own simple spreadsheet (JSON to table) so companies can build directly into that without relying on Google Sheets.

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