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Ask HN: Easiest low-code way to convert spreadsheet to app?
3 points by hhthrowaway1230 on Aug 3, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
For a client of mine I'm looking for a low code way to convert a complicated mortgage calculation spreadsheet (20 tabs/1000's rows) to an app so that the calculation happens in the excel but the output happens on a site/app frontend.

The spreadsheet is Microsoft xls. Ideally we can drag drop different components and make calculation/dashboards out of it having the excel as an engine on the backend.

Thank you!




There is a scripting interface for office that is pretty easy to use:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/tr...

You can do it with other web servers but it is dead easy to do with Microsoft's IIS and ASP.NET. I've written applications that have scripted Word from within a web server.


https://www.glideapps.com/ It's backed by Ycombinator. This is a commonly used app to convert spreadsheets into app.

It is suggested by many startup enthusiasts as a no-code tool to make quick app prototypes[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BBO3_llLss


I have an interest in converting a set of interdependent Google Sheets that do lookups on each other into a deployable application where myself and not Google owns the data.


read my comment to do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331277


https://beta.sparklite.io/ Currently in bet


Here's some stuff from my research for anyone that needs something similar in the future.

Excel to ap

- http://molnify.com

- http://glideapps.com

- https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-micro...

- https://about.appsheet.com/how-to-create-an-app/

- https://www.openasapp.com

- https://www.airrange.io/howto/calculation-app-excel

- https://go.caspio.com/turn-spreadsheets-into-web-application...

- https://retool.com/use-case/google-sheets-database

Online API from vendors

ms api

- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/excel?v...

google api

- https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/js

integration example

- https://itnext.io/integrate-excel-into-your-react-applicatio...

- https://www.spreadsheetweb.com/

- http://calcfusion.com

Libraries that can read and calculate excel

- https://formulajs.info

- https://products.aspose.com/cells/net/

- https://github.com/fabiooshiro/xlsx-calc

- https://github.com/exceljs/exceljs




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