northwestcoder

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   by northwestcoder 6y ago

   I am part of a product team at Google called AppSheet. AppSheet.com was a Google acquisition in Jan 2020. I received approval to post this via social media and then I did so. You may be correct that this project and idea never sees the ligh
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   by northwestcoder 6y ago

   "we are just handing over all our data to you?" that is in fact the requirement as outlined by the State of Washington Governor's office (Jay Inslee), document here: https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/defau
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   by northwestcoder 6y ago

   I'm not sure what you meant by static or legit. You can learn all about these various technology choices at appsheet.com - we want hacker news feedback just like this, btw. Thanks again.
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   by northwestcoder 6y ago

   Hi, During this peer review we went with sheets as a convenience. If we were to continue, we would move to an open source db (e.g. mysql or similar) in a cloud instance, secured via ssl as well as ip firewall. Thanks for the feedback.
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   by northwestcoder 6y ago

   Hi, I am the author of this doc and app, although I have a team of smarter and better people backing me up. You are welcome to read the world-readable facebook post on this subject as well: https://www.facebook.com/ty.aleviz