The only possible trademark issue I can think of (I can't remember the exact case here, but it had to do with Polaroid) - a trademark holder can claim they intend to expand their operations to use the name, so SurveyMonkey could theoretically say they plan on expanding to [xyz]monkey without any obligation to actually do it.
Pivot tables have a bit of a learning curve but you can also use them to dynamically pull data out of sheets: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/1272900?hl=en&co=GENI...
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I run my blog's subscription system off of Google Forms -> Google Sheets. It's free and very simple but I definitely don't like how ugly Google Forms is.
I keep meaning to follow one of these guides to embedding a form and posting to Google Sheets but the Google Sheets API is confusing and everyone's guide for doing this has a different method.
I just need to spend the time on it...
[0] https://sheetmonkey.io/articles/how-to-submit-a-html-form-to...
Each year I intend to write a tiny script that accepts form data and stores it in a Google Sheet, and deploy it to AWS Lambda. Maybe I'll finally do it this year? Or maybe I'll use your service ;)
EDIT: I was missing the `playsinline` attribute. Fixed now.
1. Could I have “code” in subsequent sheets to manipulate data coming in through the form and output results.
2. Could you embed questions in an android app? If you could I would immediately have a lot of use for this.
Thanks and well done!
1. I'm not sure I 100% understand what you're asking here but it seems that what you're looking for is very possible by triggering workflows off of sheets. https://solutions.appsheet.com/workspace or https://zapier.com are a couple of great ways to do this.
2. If you can embed HTML in an Android then you should be able to embed one of the forms. I haven't done it before. Let me know if you try it and how it goes.
I have a use for this, so I think I will sign up regardless.
Did you build it yourself? Because it honestly looks like a full blown company had built it by how good it looks from the outside. If so, you're a f**g machine!! Congrats.
But the way you described it in the HN post header almost threw me off, made me think - "Isn't that Google Forms already? Why reinvent the wheel?" I wonder if targeting the painpoint of styling the embedded form would be a better proposition.
So instead of "A form builder that saves data in Google Sheets", what if it was something along the lines of "Custom styling for your ugly Google Forms."
I made a commandline binary https://mro.name/form2xhtml that turns server side form dumps back into html for ease of processing.
Put that into your tool pipeline (offline processing is fine) and be good. No 3rd parties involved.
What is the benefit to use 2 tools instead of 1 to do the same thing?
