Ah, agreed that the end-users of the APIs this builds would very likely also be Docs users. But the people who're turning their spreadsheets into APIs (i.e. the publishers) likely are not, in my experience.
Thanks for the compliment. As a developer working on a lot of systems that integrate service coverage data I'm constantly being sent spreadsheets that contain zip code / postcode level information, and I need to import this into my database or my client's databases. And normally my apps only want to lookup one or two values per day - but the third party is sending me their entire 100MB spreadsheet, as they don't have an API to publish it via. It's time consuming, error prone, and clunky. But they don't have the skill or resources to create an API, so I'm hoping something like this might remove some barriers.
Very interesting. So you may want to experiment with the messaging like "clients still doing things with excel spreadsheets?" for example, targeting developers who deal with excel dependent or decades old reporting clients. There are so many of those I'm sure.
Thanks for the compliment. As a developer working on a lot of systems that integrate service coverage data I'm constantly being sent spreadsheets that contain zip code / postcode level information, and I need to import this into my database or my client's databases. And normally my apps only want to lookup one or two values per day - but the third party is sending me their entire 100MB spreadsheet, as they don't have an API to publish it via. It's time consuming, error prone, and clunky. But they don't have the skill or resources to create an API, so I'm hoping something like this might remove some barriers.