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Dev tools · June 8, 2019

Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Hassle Database

Use Google Sheets as your no-setup database. Contribute to SteinHQ/Stein development by creating an account on GitHub.

Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Hassle Database launched on June 8, 2019 with 12 votes, #775 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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Stein is a developer tool that enables users to treat Google Sheets as a database with an API. Rather than setting up a traditional backend database, developers can store and query data through Google Sheets using straightforward API calls. This approach suits small projects, prototypes, and applications where a full database infrastructure would be unnecessary overhead. The tool simplifies data management by leveraging the familiar Google Sheets interface while providing programmatic access to the data.

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