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Thanks so much for the tip! Do you happen to know if Airtable documents rank on Google? One of the reasons for preferring Google Sheets is because I know from

Thanks so much for the tip! Do you happen to know if Airtable documents rank on Google? One of the reasons for preferring Google Sheets is because I know from experience that I come across many public Google Sheets through Google. I don't recall coming across Airtable documents, but it might be just because there are fewer of them.

solardev 2y ago
I'm actually not sure about that (never thought about it, good question!). I suppose you could embed it on a page (https://support.airtable.com/docs/creating-airtable-base-share-links#embedding-bases https://support.airtable.com/docs/creating-airtable-base-sha...) or use a third-party "portal" builder like Pory, Noloco, Softr, Bubble, etc. (can't recommend any, never used any of those, sorry). Airtable also provides JSON outputs if you want to hook it up to a custom web app: https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction (FYI, GSheets does this too https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-endpoint/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-...) If I were doing this myself, I'd probably just put the data in any spreadsheet or DB I like (including Airtable), get the JSON out, and then use something like MUI Datagrid to render it into a nice and simple frontend that I fully control: https://mui.com/x/react-data-grid/ https://mui.com/x/react-data-grid/ But yeah, gsheets might be simpler then if there's an SEO benefit :)
- lilouartz 2y ago
  Ended up dumping it all into a database schema. I realized that in order to do comparison, there is quite a bit processing that needs to be done to normalize data. Things like identifying chemical compounds, nutrients, etc. This def turned out to be a lot more cost/time consuming than I expected, but I do enjoy the learning process. Since the data will be in PostgreSQL db, I will be able to slice and dice it however I want to export it later to Airtable or other formats. Thanks for all the recommendations!

solardev 2y ago

I'm actually not sure about that (never thought about it, good question!). I suppose you could embed it on a page (https://support.airtable.com/docs/creating-airtable-base-share-links#embedding-bases https://support.airtable.com/docs/creating-airtable-base-sha...) or use a third-party "portal" builder like Pory, Noloco, Softr, Bubble, etc. (can't recommend any, never used any of those, sorry). Airtable also provides JSON outputs if you want to hook it up to a custom web app: https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction (FYI, GSheets does this too https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-endpoint/ https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/cjn-google-sheets-as-json-...) If I were doing this myself, I'd probably just put the data in any spreadsheet or DB I like (including Airtable), get the JSON out, and then use something like MUI Datagrid to render it into a nice and simple frontend that I fully control: https://mui.com/x/react-data-grid/ https://mui.com/x/react-data-grid/ But yeah, gsheets might be simpler then if there's an SEO benefit :)

lilouartz 2y ago
Ended up dumping it all into a database schema. I realized that in order to do comparison, there is quite a bit processing that needs to be done to normalize data. Things like identifying chemical compounds, nutrients, etc. This def turned out to be a lot more cost/time consuming than I expected, but I do enjoy the learning process. Since the data will be in PostgreSQL db, I will be able to slice and dice it however I want to export it later to Airtable or other formats. Thanks for all the recommendations!