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Show HN: Generate beautiful list sites from your spreadsheets
- chriscoco 8y agoI like the approach. This way even Generation Excel users can easily create and update the content of such directory sites.
- azarai 8y agoThanks. It's totally by intention. I believe tools should be as simple as possible and do one thing well.
- mapster 8y agouseful! the maps are blank in the examples btw
- azarai 8y agoThanks. Seems to happen sometimes when Google Sheet isn't geolocating fast enough. Might remove the Google Script in the future.
- jon49 8y agoPretty 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.
- azarai 8y agoThanks 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.