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drive-db
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drive-db

:bar_chart: Use Google Drive spreadsheets as a simple database

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18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
821GitHub stars
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:bar_chart: Use Google Drive spreadsheets as a simple database

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HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-19 22:23:11 UTC to 2023-02-27 01:24:15 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Nice one, I made something initially very similar to what I see you made with grille in drive-db[1]. However I changed from an 'update the data when you call a function' to 'set a maximum-life for the data' format now as I just found myself making that new version manually in every project. The name will be changed from `timetout` to `cache` though as the name is confusing even for me. When do you normally update the data? Are you using it in any public-facing project? Also a couple more of differences I've seen: - I store it in a file then retrieve from file or remote depending on the last time it was retrieved. This gives a mixed performance locally, but remotely not so much as server-server is quite fast. I might try storing in memory as you though, that should be way faster - I use a mongodb-like syntax for finding, which allows for (
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I think) simpler use, but your syntax for sure allows for simpler debugging as you can see the data 'as-is'. - Grille allows for more flexibility, but it also looks more complex. So our demo files are completely different [2] So basically every advantage has a disadvantage (: [1] https://github.com/FranciscoP/drive-db [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fvz34wY6phWDJsuIneqv...
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