Show HN: Toga – Create apps from Google Sheets

Sam, one of the creators here. Spreadsheets are still the most flexible software creation tool in existence. Excel and now Google Sheets allow millions of non developers to produce software within their workbooks. However while spreadsheets are great experiences for authoring tools, they aren&#x27;t so easy for your users.<p>Toga allows you to create apps from your Google Sheets so you can provide an easy interface for your team (or even your customers and partners) to access, edit and create data. Permissions are integrated to you can limit by the sheet, column and row.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear what you think!

Congrats on launching! Have you heard of Glide: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glideapps.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glideapps.com&#x2F;</a>? How are you thinking of differentiating yourself from them and others?

Am I missing something? I used to run a fairly large landscaping company with a partner out of gSheets so I was excited when I saw this. But at the moment this just seems like a wrapper that takes away most of the useful functionality of a spreadsheet. I could see something like this being great if it had integrations with payroll, accounting, etc software but it currently seems far too basic to be usable.

How often does it actually happen that people wonder who deleted a column? Google Sheets has a history and can undo changes.

This is great. This is basically Airtable, but a more dummy-proof interface. I wish the landing page showed more screenshots of the admin interface, the config steps I need to go through to generate a Toga app.

I&#x27;ve seen before AppSheet [1] acquired by Google, however, it seems that it supports just mobile apps<p>Your solution looks interesting, especially if it has an easy to use interface like bubble [2] to create the website and also mobile app<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appsheet.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appsheet.com</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bubble.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bubble.io&#x2F;</a>

Hi<p>What is the pricing?<p>Without it I cannot suggest it to my deep pocketed enterprise clients, and I cannot ever consider for my own bootstrapped, very very shallow pocketed, projects.

If you are looking for more advanced apps for complex use cases as opposed to simple single table&#x2F;sheet data then Axonator.com is a great choice. It allows you to collect more rich data like pictures with annotations, conditional logic, custom backend business logic, drag and drop form builder. Data can go directly into spreadsheets or any databases&#x2F;APIs. Axonator is different because it allows your to model complex relationships between data tables. With its UI first approach, no knowledge of data modeling is required. It spits out native high performance IOS and Android apps without the hassle of coding. Enterprise are using this tool for quality inspections, surveys and automatically generate PDF reports and display the collected data in the form of insightful dashboards.

Seems extremely similar to Appsheet... what&#x27;s your differentiator here?

If this were very customizable, it would be a powerful way to hack together MVPs or even richly-interactable prototypes for user testing

So it&#x27;s basically an alternative forms UI for Google Sheets? Something like Google Forms but better?

Considering the date and the love I have for all things spreadsheets, I was hoping for a blank page :)

cool! this can be really good for creating internal company or customer portals similar to the glide. it&#x27;s always a pain to onboard new teammates or users to built out google sheets the logic&#x2F;thinking is obscured and hard to learn.

I&#x27;d be wary of basing an entire product on another company&#x27;s product, specially Google.

i see api token in the url when i click on the link to demo site.