Ask HN: An Online Spreadsheet Certain People can Edit

1 points by bioweek 15y ago ↗ HN

So my wife is coaching a team, and she wants a way for the parents to all post their contact information somewhere online where only her and other parents of the team can see it.

What's the best method to accomplish this?

(I thought a google spreadsheet might work, but not everyone has a gmail account, and if I make it public I wouldn't want to take the chance of exposing everyone's contact info to the internet.)

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mccutchen 15y ago ↗

How about a public Google Docs form that sticks its data into a private Google Docs spreadsheet?

http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...

bioweek 15y ago ↗

That would almost work but I'd need a way for the parents to view the spreadsheet without exposing it to the internet or requiring them to have gmail accounts.

SHOwnsYou 15y ago ↗

Not sure on your level of technical savvy, but it would be trivial to make a website, put it behind a password, and have a simple form for their name and number.

bioweek 15y ago ↗

I could do that. I was really hoping there would be something off the shelf I could use (even if I have to install it on a server.)