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.
I'd love to hear what you think!
I wonder if in this app you'll have some API access? I can see this a extremely useful to hand non-technical clients a very nice interface (better than a spread sheet) and avoid the user from breaking the app (i.e. "I didn't know that rearranging/changing the name of a column would break the app!")
I'm gonna keep an eye on this product. Thanks!
Are there plans/a path in the future where users can move off of spreadsheets to a relational database when the need arises?
Using sheets for the back-end is unusual, but otherwise it's the same space as Knack, Quickbase, Zoho Creator, etc. They are all pretty popular.
For data access, a tool like this needs to support:
- lightweight: the spreadsheet itself
- medium-weight: a built-in set of functions for storing/fetching data (from a built-in, behind-the-scenes DB)
- heavyweight: functions for accessing data in an existing corporate DB, queue (Kafka, JMS, etc), and other sources in real-time
[1] Founder of https://mintdata.com, where we think spreadsheets have a bright future in this space :)
Your solution looks interesting, especially if it has an easy to use interface like bubble [2] to create the website and also mobile app
What is the pricing?
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.
for a related project, from the same company. Perhaps pricing will be in a similar ballpark?
At MintData [1], we get this asked a lot too, and honestly
- how long the company has been in business - the existing customer base w/references - the ability of the vendor to support enterprise customers & their needs
tends to play a bigger role for making a go/no-go decision, in our experience.