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This is a really clever idea. So simple and almost-obvious, yet it's the first time I come across this. Genius. Particularly like the fact that REST APIs are p
by gingerlime 12y ago
This is a really clever idea. So simple and almost-obvious, yet it's the first time I come across this. Genius.
Particularly like the fact that REST APIs are pretty easy to start with providing GET access to resources, but get messy when you start doing POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH etc. In this case, it's read-only by definition. That must make things so much easier. I can anticipate people asking for update access in future, but if you can get customers without it, I'd hold off with that for as long as possible.
One thing though - I think you should definitely raise your prices. 20Gb and 10 million queries for only €15 per month??!!
- samcrawford 12y agoThanks! I too was surprised when I couldn't find anyone else that had done it. Noted RE pricing, just testing the water for today - consider this a HN special if you want to lock it in early ;)
- jasoncrawford 12y agoA few related projects in the “spreadsheet as API/CMS” genre: http://flatsheet.io/ http://flatsheet.io/ http://data.brace.io/ http://data.brace.io/ http://cloudstitch.io/ http://cloudstitch.io/
- jlouvel 12y agoThere is also APISpark, a full stack PaaS for web APIs, that provides a "spreadsheet-to-web API" feature. It works both in read and write mode. See tutorial: https://apispark.com/docs/tutorials/google-spreadsheet https://apispark.com/docs/tutorials/google-spreadsheet
- hpagey 12y agoActually there is a company out there called https://www.ragic.com/ https://www.ragic.com/. Not exactly same but similar.
- j45 12y agoThis is a very neat tool, thanks for bringing it onto the radar.
- ams6110 12y agoThis strikes me as different. This looks a lot like Microsoft Access. A tool for "simplifying" database construction and common tasks like reporting (which doesn't actually work except in very simple cases, because you quickly reach the point of needing to understand concepts like normalization and foreign keys even if the GUI is pretty).
- antjanus 12y agoI gotta shameless plug this but I built a CMS that takes *.md files and a folder structure and spits it out as an API. As a sidenote, I love these creatively easier ways to supply data to an API in order to use it quickly and update it quickly (just by re-uploading). https://github.com/AntJanus/popstar-cms https://github.com/AntJanus/popstar-cms