Hello, world

If you're reading this, MySheetAPI just went live. I want to tell you why I built it, what it is, and where it's going.

The problem

Spreadsheets are the world's most-used database. Roughly 1.5 billion people use them. Every small business, ops team, school, and side-hustle runs on one. The work is real. The pain is real too.

You know the pain. You're a coffee shop owner. Your inventory lives in a Google Sheet. You share it with your manager so they can update stock. They share it with the new hire so they can update stock. The new hire accidentally deletes a formula. Now the totals at the bottom are wrong. Now your supplier order is wrong. Now you order 50kg of beans instead of 5.

Or you're a small consulting firm. Your CRM is a spreadsheet. The link is in five Slack messages. Two clients are now duplicated. One client got an email meant for someone else because you sorted the wrong column.

This is the universal small-business horror story: edit access to the spreadsheet that runs the business.

What we built

MySheetAPI does two things:

1. Sheets → API. Connect a Google Sheet, get a REST API. Filtering, sorting, aggregations, multi-sheet joins. Built for the developer who's tired of writing CRUD around a spreadsheet for the fifth client this month.
2. Sheets → App. Type a sentence. Watch an AI build a real working app with login, forms, dashboards — backed by your spreadsheet. Share a URL. No edit-access chaos.

Both paths solve the same problem: stop sharing edit access to your spreadsheet. Give your team a real app — buttons, search, filters, validation, login — backed by the same data, with the same Google account you already use, in the same Google Drive you already own.

Why now

Two things changed in 2026 that made this possible:

• Claude got cheap and good enough to write entire HTML apps in one streamed call. A year ago this would have cost $5 per build. Today it's $0.10–0.40. The math finally works.
• AI app builders matured — v0, Lovable, Bolt. They showed people you can describe an app and get one. But they all hit the same wall: the app has no real data. You spent 60 seconds building a beautiful empty UI. We hand you the same speed, with your real spreadsheet attached from minute zero.

The promise

I'll be honest about three things, in public, every month:

1. What we shipped. New features, bug fixes, architectural decisions. The good and the messy.
2. What we got wrong. I'll write up failed experiments and bad calls. The internet doesn't need another company that only talks about wins.
3. The numbers. When MRR is real, you'll see it on /open. Until then, the build-in-public sausage-making.

The goal isn't to be the biggest. It's to be the most loved by the ops manager at a 30-person company who's tired of edit-access chaos and the freelance developer billing $20k for a CRUD app they could ship in a weekend.

Try it

Build your first app — free, no credit card, 90 seconds. Describe what you want. We build it. Your data stays in your Google Drive.

If it doesn't blow your mind, tell me why. My DMs are open on X. I read every one.

— Ahmed