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Glide 1.0 — Create mobile apps from Google Sheets
Every spreadsheet is an amazing app waiting to happen. Pick a Google Sheet and Glide assembles a polished, data-driven mobile app that you can share with a link and publish to app stores if you desire.
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@bentossell You know this thing is good when the master of no code building himself gives it an endorsement!
See a lot of products take this approach but Glide seems truly seamless and simple to use! @dvdsgl is there any major limitations for developers to take this approach? Would love to hear your thoughts!
@aaronoleary Thank you! There are some limitations at the moment – Glide apps are best for brochure-style apps that show a global view on a data set right now, but we are focusing on adding and editing data next.
We’ve watched hundreds of developers build thousands of apps over the last 7 years, and we learned that designing a great app is often a much harder problem than writing its code. We’re tackling the challenge of designing a great app by applying high-level mobile patterns and pre-built components that bind to your data. We never want a user to have to arrange primitive components on a 2D canvas unless they really need something bespoke, and we want to empower anyone to include the best features from their favorite App Store apps with zero work. There are so many subtle details to get right to make great app experiences that we need to offer useful constraints so that app creators quickly get a result they’ll be proud to share, but there is definitely a balance between constraints and power that we'll have to play with.
The spreadsheet model of data/computation is integral to our plans for Glide–Google Sheets is a starting point, but it’s also not merely one of many data sources for Glide. We think that non-programmers will be able to build serious apps with this familiar model.
@aaronoleary @dvdsgl Do your plans include being able to pull updated data? Or is it a re-publish each time? Edit: Now that I see they are PWA's, I guess my question is more nuanced, about published apps perhaps? :)
Looks fantastic and having done more work in the last year in tools like Webflow and form-builders, without writing any code, this is definitely appealing for the next generation of app creation. Q: How does the app compile? I couldn't find the answer on the website. Is it a Glide app that everyone has to install and mine loads from within, or is it a web-view that is optimized to look like a native app? Thanks!
✌YC.
@kirillzubovsky Each Glide app is a mobile-optimized web app (PWA) and native builds for iOS and Android, but the native builds are currently only available on our paid tier. We have a native implementation of Glide on React Native, but are learning more about what customers need when they ask for "native" and are exploring our options here.
@dvdsgl Thanks! Also, how do you guys store images in Sheets ? Are all of those external urls of a 3rd party storage? I didn't know Sheets allowed for image storage.
@kirillzubovsky Right now you just use URLs but you can also use data URLs. It's clunky and we need to improve it.
Hello, Product Hunt!
We are Antonio, David, Jason & Mark and we're building Glide to make it easy & fun for anyone to build amazing apps without code.
We're not the first to build on top of spreadsheets, but we think the idea has never developed to its full potential. Spreadsheets are the most successful programming model of all time, and smartphones are the most successful computer of all time, but they've never been meaningfully connected. We're really excited to develop this concept further and we're eager for your feedback!
Thanks!
Glide is an incredible tool! I've used it to make a few apps now and it's seamless. Excited to share it with some of my less technical friends who have always wanted to make an app!
@zoink Thank you! Can't wait to brainstorm with you about our future crypto components :D
Been hearing about Glide and meaning to give it a go. But even before I do, I'd like to admit that I am so fucking excited about the possibilities such no-code tools are opening up for the masses. More power to you guys! Can we expect some integrations or at least support for webhooks?
@irhymeth Thanks! We're effing excited as well too ;) And yes, integrations is something you should expect from Glide in the future.
The quality of the "webapp" in iOS is amazing - absolutely feels like native app. I see the appeal for enterprise, but given the simplicity of the Google Sheets to App model, I'm going to try moving some iOS Shortcuts/IFTTT flows to apps to experiment. Congrats on launch!
@rmateu Thanks a lot! We're really focused on getting the little details right. In fact I think we're the only PWA on iOS to support edge-swipe ;)
This is awesome! It looks like it has a lot of potential! A couple of quick questions - could I make a menu app for one restaurant so people can view it visually? Could I create a checklist app for a restaurant where employee have to check off items every morning and night off a checklist? Or right now is there more for static projects like brochures or menus?
@desi_saran Right now the data is more-or-less static, with basic Notes, Comments, and Chat components. We are focused on the ability to add and edit records next, so you'll be able to do what you describe in the next month or two.
I love glideapp. I have been using this for 3 months now and this fascinating journey has really got me thinking about how easy it is to build an app for your project or your startup. I would definitely recommend this app to everyone reading this because this has helped me a lot and once you get the hang of it, the experience is brilliant. thanks a lot, @dvdsg and the entire glideapp team for making this possible
Pretty easy to build apps specially if you are looking for static apps.
Pros:You can create beautiful apps within minutes without much hassle.
Cons:Haven't tried for a big project yet so can't say.
Excellent! However, the app doesn't update upon refreshing once published. For example, if I update something in my sheet, it won't reflect in the live app; unless & until I manually update it from Glide Dashboard! Can you do something about this? Thanks!
Congrats on the launch! Are you able to publish apps created from Glide on the app store/play store only with the Business App subscription or can you with the simple and pro levels too?
@marketplicity Thank you for your interest and support!
For the time being, if you want to publish to stores, that's available on our Business plan. We're enabling new PWA features every week, though, so the web versions are evolving quickly and those are free & instant to share. iOS 12.2 adds even more useful PWA features.
I'm using glide for a couple of weeks now and this is the most awesome #nocode app since Airtable for me 🤯
From personnal apps to ease my life to stuff used at in my company, it's so versatile and easy. Saving us ±5000k for each app we make with it. It's crazy. I hope I'll be able soon to use Glide Organisations in my company 🤞
This is one of most interesting projects I’ve seen in years. Is there a basic analytics feature? It would be very important for validating the ideas. Thanks for creating Glide!
@sedat_yurdakan Wow thank you! We don't offer analytics yet but yes, we agree it's very important and we plan to add it.
This is really awesome @dvdsgl @antonio_garcia_aprea
I actually found out about this on the Webflow Popular Showcase page! This is a fantastic idea that I would love to see explode into something the way Webflow did for website.
I would love to see Glide integrated with Airtable, or more importantly, a Zapier integration so that we could integrate with the Webflow CMS / other sources rather than just Sheets, but this is an incredible first step and I can't wait to build something with this!
@dvdsgl @joshgonsalves Josh I'm glad you're liking Glide so far! Yes, integrations is one of the many things we have planned on our roadmap ;) so stay tuned!
I have been using this app for about a month now and I am so surprised at how easy, intuitive it is and increasingly powerful with each new sprint. New feature dev is fresh and focused (no silly distractions) and I feel you are definitely building a solid base for us citizen developers. Pricing structure makes sense, although you should probably think about diversifying it before the adoption gets more massive, both to be more flexible and to not “leave money on the table”. I don’t give out reviews often. You guys truly deserve it. Keep it up David and Mark 👍🏽
Hi @imrgoyal, concept looks super amazing and easy. I'm trying to create an app using your platform however, the page is getting refreshed automatically which is becoming irritating. I'm not sure if anyone is also facing the same issue. Can you please check?
@imrgoyal @anuragmehra Thanks for reporting! Sounds like you are getting a crash. Can you please contact us at hello@glideapps.com with a screenshot of your Developer Console?
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