Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
Hello everyone! At a company I worked for, we needed to develop an MVP (basically a web page) and apply certain business logic to a Google Drive spreadsheet that was frequently updated by the Sales team. In this case, we had two options: Develop a backend to replace the current spreadsheet and have the sales team use it as a new "backoffice" - This would take a very long time, and if the hypothesis we were testing was wrong, it would be time wasted. Create the web page and use Google's SDK to extract data from the spreadsheet. We chose to go with the second option because it was quicker.…
Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app launched on April 12, 2024 with 356 votes, #113 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
This tool enables developers to use Google Sheets as a backend and API for web applications. It streamlines the integration process between web pages and Google Sheets data by handling OAuth authentication, API configuration, and data extraction logic. Built for rapid prototyping and MVP development, it allows teams to test business hypotheses without building a full backend system, letting existing spreadsheets maintained by non-technical users continue serving as the data source while developers focus on frontend features.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Turn your Google Sheets spreadsheets into powerful APIs to rapidly develop prototypes, websites, apps and more.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello everyone! At a company I worked for, we needed to develop an MVP (basically a web page) and apply certain business logic to a Google Drive spreadsheet that was frequently updated by the Sales team. In this case, we had two options: Develop a backend to replace the current spreadsheet and have the sales team use…
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
Turn a Google Spreadsheet into an API2015 · sheetsu.com · ▲357Use your Google Sheets as a JSON API. Connect Google Spreadsheets with your CRM or any other tool using JSON API and RESTful requests.
Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs2014 · sheetlabs.com · ▲158Sheetlabs lets you turn Excel and Google Sheets into powerful APIs. No development required!
More dev tools this month
the category →
open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 29d ago · github.com
Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 17h ago · github.com
Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com
OpenBot▲362Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer
Dev tools · 24d ago · openbot.run
Talanoa▲346Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…
Dev tools · 21d ago · talanoa.email
Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
Launched alongside, April 2024
the whole month →
Supabase▲2,325The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
Dev tools · 2024 · supabase.com
Cal.com Platform▲1,601Build your pixel-perfect booking experience with Atoms
Dev tools · 2024 · cal.com
deco.cx 2.0▲1,078Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind
Dev tools · 2024 · decocms.com
