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rsafayatoday at 12:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Really good project for a quick data back end.

One feature suggestion: webhook support for row changes:

If my Sheet updates (say, a new waitlist signup), I'd want to trigger for e.g. a Slack notification. Supabase has something similar with their database webhooks. I use that extensively for kicking off signup workflows.


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snoopentoday at 12:19 PM

You can do this now directly in the Google environment. Should be trivial to vibe code Google Apps Script to hit a Slack endpoint. You'd probably use an 'on edit' trigger to run the code.

sxa001today at 12:22 PM

That's a great suggestion, thank you

For your signup workflows, how sensitive would you be to latency? Would a 30 to 60 second delay be a dealbreaker, or are you looking for something that hits Slack the instant the row is created?

(The challenge with Google Sheets is we'd have to poll for changes)