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Show HN: Using Google Sheets to create a survey chat bot without a server

by m88m on 9/12/17, 9:10 AM with 32 comments

  • by justboxing on 9/12/17, 5:58 PM

    This is beautiful.

    Also - side-note but often overlooked on open-source & github projects - the documentation / getting started guide on home page is EXCELLENT!

  • by bhnmmhmd on 9/12/17, 10:11 AM

    This is great! I wonder can it be done for Telegram as well?
  • by DanI-S on 9/12/17, 7:24 PM

    If you're interested in this approach, there's a similar spreadsheet-based pattern available for building trivia-style games for the Google Assistant platform:

    https://triviatemplate.com/

  • by dvfjsdhgfv on 9/12/17, 12:17 PM

    Seeing these chatbots I'm always wondering... Are customers rally using these? I'm wondering because it would never occur to me to chat to a chatbot.
  • by charred_toast on 9/12/17, 5:24 PM

    How difficult, if at all possible, would it be to add images to each question?
  • by wnevets on 9/12/17, 5:32 PM

    I did something similar with AWS's S3, Lamba and a google spreadsheet.
  • by jimktrains2 on 9/12/17, 12:46 PM

    You have a hacienda server, you're just not managing it.
  • by nikolay on 9/12/17, 6:48 PM

    They didn't approve my developer account, so, I have no incentive to look into this when Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and many others are widely available.
  • by pmlnr on 9/12/17, 2:29 PM

    That is not without a server... it's not your server, but it does have a server side.
  • by le-mark on 9/12/17, 12:38 PM

    It's curious to see these occasional "cool little apps using google sheets for a datastore" when there are many "database as a service" around with free tiers, like firebase, restdb, and a whole bunch of others. Why not just use a real database instead of hacking google sheets?