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by dvdsgl 11mo ago
Feels fun and promising, but switching input focus between windows is fiddly.
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by dvdsgl 11mo ago
You can surround yourself with floating terminals using the Blink app. Here I code from the couch surrounded by nvim, Claude Code, etc.: https://x.com/dvdsgl/status/1948840477970841720/video/1
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Thank you! Please let me know how your second attempt goes. AI and no code platforms will merge into new high-level software creation tools. We already view Glide as a hybrid—try our AI component for the bottoms-up view. Our top-down AI app
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Yes, I’m also sad we couldn’t find a way to be affordable for everyone while also growing our business. We’ve learned that the personal/community app ‘market’ is impossible to grow upon, and that pricing for this group undercuts your p
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
This is not true. We don’t build apps for customers, although there are Glide agencies that we match customers with. We’ve learned that some businesses prefer to pay for someone else to build for them no matter the platform, so we’re happy
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Retool is great, although they explicitly build for developers and building on retool requires writing glue code in their JavaScript template language, and writing SQL queries. In Glide, we avoid code and syntax as much as possible. Our tab
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Glide (from the article) adds simple pin-based auth and access control on top of the spreadsheet data. There’s also user and role-based data protection.
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Our customers who’ve switched from AppSheet tell us emphatically “yes” because of Glide’s ease of use, power, and the design of the apps it produces.
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
We’ve made a lot of progress in a few years! Check again?
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Thank you!
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Hello! Founder of Glide FTA. Yes, many of our customers hit the issues you mentioned as they scale spreadsheet-based applications. We built Big Tables for this case: https://www.glideapps.com/big-tables You keep most of the
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Founder of Glide (YC W19) mentioned in the article — thanks for the recognition. This was not an ad from us, we were surprised by the coverage. Glide’s customers are businesses building software for internal use. During YC we called these “
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Founder of Glide (YC W19) here. This article surprised us and is not paid.
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Yes, we agree. We have a mobile experience in the works! https://glideapps.com/create
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
We specialize in creating custom software for businesses in your exact same situation at https://glideapps.com , and we have a large community of consultants who can build for you as you develop an in-house capacity. Our top expe
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Yes, we’ve powered millions of apps with Google Sheets.
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by dvdsgl 2y ago
Congrats on the launch! This is exciting. The video demo is awesome: https://youtu.be/AZyrecVWnEs?si=j7JVKhhcUor1_y-f
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by dvdsgl 3y ago
This is a very intriguing problem! Not trying to steal thunder, but quicktype ( https://github.com/quicktype/quicktype ) does all of this–JSON schema or TypeScript definitions to de/serializers and types in nearly 3
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by dvdsgl 4y ago
We created https://www.glideapps.com/ for the niche apps that people want, but Apple doesn't! Also powered by Google Sheets, as OP's app is.
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by dvdsgl 4y ago
I was the lead designer of Unity. Unity was not a response to patent concerns, but rather the manifestation of a convoluted OEM strategy involving exclusive distribution of distinct design features, and a write-once-run-anywhere dream of ru
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by dvdsgl 4y ago
An app you can clone: https://owen-wow.glideapp.io/
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by dvdsgl 4y ago
This is what we’re building with https://www.glideapps.com
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by dvdsgl 5y ago
Glide | Frontend Engineer | Full-time Remote Glide is one of the top no-code tools, on a mission to create a billion new software developers by 2030. We're looking for a senior web frontend engineer to lead some exciting new projects:
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by dvdsgl 5y ago
Glide ( https://www.glideapps.com/ ) is fine! We allow you to build polished PWAs and now full web apps using data in your Google Sheet (and soon Excel and Airtable). You can build logic and complex actions in Glide, without
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by dvdsgl 5y ago
Congrats on the HN launch, Rune!
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Glide (YC W19) is hiring a product designer and two engineers
1 points by dvdsgl 6y ago
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by dvdsgl 6y ago
Founder of Glide here! Thank you for the vote of confidence :) We’re quite excited to see the no-code space heat up with Amazon joining the fray.
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by dvdsgl 6y ago
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it. I do the same workflow, where I generate types during build. I often generate them directly from the datasource (e.g. directly from the API). Then I get compile-time errors if the API changes.
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by dvdsgl 6y ago
Hello, HN! quicktype generates types and serializers from JSON, JSON Schema, TypeScript, and GraphQL queries, to help you use JSON type-safely in many languages: C#, Go, Rust, Crystal, C++, Objective-C, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, JavaScr
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Show HN: quicktype converts JSON, TypeScript, GraphQL to types in 18 languages(app.quicktype.io)
8 points by dvdsgl 6y ago|3 comments

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