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Show HN: Sheet2Site – Create Websites Out of Google Sheets
- andreyazimov 9y agoHi HN, I made a tool that can generate a website from Google Sheets. It using Google Sheet as a DB. Examples of sites: https://www.sheet2site.com/s/best-cities-for-digital-nomads/ https://www.sheet2site.com/s/best-cities-for-digital-nomads/, https://www.sheet2site.com/s/best-coffee-shops-for-work-in-canggu/ https://www.sheet2site.com/s/best-coffee-shops-for-work-in-c..., https://www.sheet2site.com/s/top-100-cryptocurrencies https://www.sheet2site.com/s/top-100-cryptocurrencies, https://darkmodelist.com https://darkmodelist.com
- drinchev 9y agoThis looks like a really cool idea. What I noticed is that is somehow hard to understand how to create the page. ( Click here, then there, then copy paste, then click publish, etc... ). If this process was more it would be awesome. Keep going the good work! I checked your $1k goal and wish you all the best in achieving it!
- andreyazimov 9y agoyeah, agree this instruction is sucks . Can you maybe suggest how I can improve it?
- fragmede 9y agoMove the steps around to remove switching between apps. My recommendation would be: 1, 6, 4, 2, 3, 5, with title and background info/other info as "advanced" config. Make steps have sub steps, so step 1 is use this template, step 2 is prepare the spreadsheet; sub-step 2a is "press publish", sub-step 2b is "edit title on the main-page sheet" Step 3 is "Publish!" With sub-step 3a being copy url, 3b paste, etc. It requires changing the code a bit, but should feel simpler, since there's no switching back and forth, and some complexity is hidden inside the sub steps.
- danvoell 9y agoThe site is down for me. HN Hug.
- andreyazimov 9y agoYeah probably with HN traffic, now seems work. Can you please try one more time?
- danvoell 9y agoYep working now. thanks! Cool idea, best of luck!
- andreyazimov 9y agoGreat!
- prats019 9y agoAll of the links seem to throw application error.
- andreyazimov 9y agoAll should works now :)
- prakster 9y agoI love your idea. And there's a huge market of individuals living on Excel that will pay you for doing this. Congrats!
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks. I hope!
- ada1981 9y agoLooks like HN broke your server ;) Looking forward to checking it out when you get it running. Is there a service that can easily stress test your app? Like a "TEST HN" service? Would be nice to run a project through that before posting to HN.
- andreyazimov 9y agoJust checked and seems work, can you please try one more time?
- jedimastert 9y agoChecked it just now. Broke for me.
- andreyazimov 9y agomaybe me now?
- ndethore 9y agoAwesome work Andrey!
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks!
- overcast 9y agoReaffirming that Excel truly is the universal format for everything. Good work!
- andreyazimov 9y agoAgree! Go Excel! :)
- benpixel 9y agoI like the simplicity. Also, I'm assuming it's not free, it would be nice to know what's the price before signing up. Maybe you could just add some sort of a disclaimer, e.g. Generate / Create new site (free up to 1k visitors/month, $5 after). Good luck!
- andreyazimov 9y agoAgree! I've just added that for 1 custom domain it's for $5 /mon and for unlimited domains $10 / mon
- faitswulff 9y agoOh! If you don't mind my asking, how do you go about selling custom domains? Or if there are resources you can point me to, that would be helpful, too.
- benpixel 9y agoNot sure @andreyazimov is actually selling domains, only allowing you to connect your own, right? But if you want to actually sell domains via your application I'm sure that's possible via Namecheap API or something similar.
- andreyazimov 9y agoI do not selling domains for sure, just connecting :)
- svenvdz 9y agoNice work Andrey! Good luck with your $1000 MRR challenge.
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks!
- derwiki 9y agoToo funny -- about a month ago I built a web site backed by a Google Sheet so that my father could easily update content. Great idea with Sheet2Site and good luck!
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks :)
- staticvar 9y agoFWIW, YC funded startup Cloud Stitch does something similar https://cloudstitch.com/ https://cloudstitch.com/
- starikovs 9y agoOne cool thing about sheet2site is that the sheet2site's idea is presented clearer than the cloudstitch's one. I mean when I opened sheet2site website I understood what it does in a moment. But in case of cloudstitch I have to force my brain to work to understand what this means: "Cloudstitch lets you manage websites & run your business, all from your office suite."
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- andreyazimov 9y agohaha, thanks :) Maybe if you are "true" startup you can't be simple and clear? :)
- AngeloAnolin 9y agoTried to access the site, but getting the error. Screenshot [1] [1] https://ibb.co/kYtL5H https://ibb.co/kYtL5H
- andreyazimov 9y agoFixed. Please try now
- nvusuvu 9y agoYour copy: They are working but I need to explain you how :) could be improved to They are working but I need to explain to you how to use it. :)
- andreyazimov 9y agoDone! Thanks!
- callahanrts 9y agoGreat idea! Any ideas for expansion? I imagine you could map rows/columns to a bootstrap-like grid system for more custom layouts.
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks) I'm thinking to add a custom script from the sheet. Like Google Analytics or chat
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- seanwilson 9y agoCan you explain the backend? When the spreadsheet is updated, is the generated website automatically updated?
- andreyazimov 9y agoIt's just getting a JSON from a spreadsheet.
- georgeoliver 9y agoFun idea. I learned recently that Sheets also works as a JSON service to post and get data if you have a static site and don't want to stand up a DB server.
- hckern3ws 9y agoAny resource for this you can point me to?
- andreyazimov 9y agoI used this https://googlesheetjson.herokuapp.com https://googlesheetjson.herokuapp.com
- georgeoliver 9y agoThere's a bunch on the web actually. The gist is that you create a Google App Script linked to your Sheet and deploy it publicly, which can receive GET and POST requests and respond as you like. See: http://chriszarate.github.io/sheetrock/ http://douglasduhaime.com/posts/crud-operations-on-static-file-sites.html https://github.com/liddiard/google-sheet-s3 https://www.johnastewart.org/coding/twine-game-data-to-google-sheets-via-javascript/ https://medium.com/@dmccoy/how-to-submit-an-html-form-to-google-sheets-without-google-forms-b833952cc175
- lzy 9y agoTypo on your homepage image; https://www.sheet2site.com/img/tabs.png https://www.sheet2site.com/img/tabs.png "backgroung"
- andreyazimov 9y agoThanks. Fixed
- adamwi 9y agoGreat work! An alternative I have been using recently for some projects is Molnify [1], it has more focus on exposing calculation logic in the app created and less control over background images and layout. Takes either a Excel file or a google sheet doc as input. [1] http://www.molnify.com/ http://www.molnify.com/