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.

I really wish auth was easier to setup for services though, i see no reason google can't provide this out of the box

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riffraff 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You can auth with Google auth after you configure an app, what are you thinking of that would be simpler?

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Raed667 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I meant to authenticate a service (that is not running on GCP) to access the sheet, it requires a service account and felt more convoluted than what it needs to be

	▲	afferi300rina 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Completely agree. Managing service account JSON keys and configuring IAM roles just to access a single sheet feels like a huge overhead for simple projects.