Google acquires AppSheet (techcrunch.com)

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Those Oath sites really do love tracking before you even hit the article.

For anyone else with uMatrix blocking the 307 to https://guce.advertising.com, here is a cache https://archive.is/nJ0xw

Here is a better source with more info on AppSheet included: https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/14/google-acquires-no-code-a...

Personally I think that this is a great buy for google as they needed more than app maker and google sheets

Very interesting, this seems very related to them force-migrating everyone to the new Sheets API that has a number of missing features.

https://www.gmass.co/blog/google-sheets-api-v4-bullshit/

With the share of the online spreadsheet market google has, I think they should not be allowed to buy any startup in this market.

I’m really excited about the idea of the building applications being available to more people and I think that in theory there’s definitely a class of application that should not require extensive or even very much programming knowledge at all.

That said, I have not personally found many examples of “paint by numbers” built apps that look and feel great. I’d love to see some examples of anybody knows of a good applications that were made WYSIWYG style.

Watching appsheet's video demo, really impressive.

Good competition for webflow?

My hypothesis: this acquisition is a response to Microsoft's Power Apps. If the hypothesis is true, then Google should soon acquire either IFTTT or Zapier to match Microsoft's Power Automate (previously know as MS Flow).