Google Sheets

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Google sheets is my go-to assistant these days Can't believe I used to ignore it before. Have even gotten better with add-on like AppScript and the rest.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “I did have a lot of fun building my Google Sheets infrastructure to coordinate business and production between myself and the three friends”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Google accounts aren't immune to being compromised, so I agree that it's not a good home for passwords”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-25

• “I track my learning and schedule repetitions in google sheets”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-10

• “I used to use google sheets for workouts but realised: 1. plain text notes are more ergonomic on the phone”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-24

• “I have never been truly happy with any workout tracker so I have been using Google Sheets until I made my own”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

• “Google Sheets has such poor AI integration and is outrageously tedious to edit”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-16

• “I put Google Sheets as a backend (in production) when i wanted a select non technical people to be able to see and modify the data without the cost of building a backend”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-29

• “I wasted so much time dealing with uploading 10's of csv files to google sheets on a daily basis”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-13

• “idk why google makes something that should take 15s (clicking "ok" in an oauth popup) take tens of minutes to hours of head scratching.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “I was blindly using all sorts of features and capabilities (including Google Forms) that simply have no direct analog in other products”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-21

• “I think Google Sheets is the most pleasant to use of the options I've tried”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-21

• “I have the same issue with Google Sheets. Non-experts don't understand how much of an impediment this is.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-18

• “it's more than enough. Google Apps Script is also reasonably useful, and the newer Smart Chips are a nice addition.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-15

• “usually Google Sheets is enough to start, but move quickly to a more stable database like Notion or Airtable”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-22

• “Google Sheets in my case) it's my favorite way to do financial calculations because you can easily customize contribution amounts or withdrawals in certain years by having different columns”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “I did something, much simpler, some time back in Google Sheets. Around year-end, I go and edit the location of the starting dates each month (drag around, some formatting). I also like the weekdays lined up instead. Use it more as a bigger-picture timeline/schedule for the year, for the family, and me.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-28

• “I've regretted having to use Google Sheets for the last few years”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-20

• “Google sheets: not enough automation. At least I can do "filter rows, copy-paste the 'root cause' field into all of them", and it is pretty fast, but: multi-line outputs don't look good and there are no automation”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-16

• “migrating my current Google Sheets solution to a web application”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-15

• “try to parse a multi-million line orderlines extract in Google Sheets compared to excel”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-29

• “kept watching non-technical founders and operators lose evenings inside Google Sheets – fighting VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, dedupe formulas, and ad/lead exports that never line up”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-27

• “because it's Google sheets you can play with it and do whatever you want with it”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-22

• “The Google Sheet solution works, but obviously there is no way this is optimal. Complete and utter KLUDGE. My apologies.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-10-26

• “Google Sheets now has an intrusive Gemini pop-up that obscures other cells and UI when you try to do things like edit a formula, it's beyond infuriating”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-10-26