Show HN: SheetRelay – Google Sheets as a back end for web pages and AI agents
SheetRelay is a new service that transforms Google Sheets into a functional back end for web applications and AI agents. It allows users to connect a spreadsheet once to enable both natural language queries via AI assistants and programmatic access through REST APIs. The platform supports various use cases, including personal blogs, internal team tools, and public menu sites, by treating spreadsheet rows as database records.
- ▪SheetRelay converts Google Sheets into an API and MCP server, allowing AI agents and code to read and write data under user-defined rules.
- ▪The service integrates with popular tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Zapier, and n8n to facilitate data interaction.
- ▪Users can generate spreadsheets directly through AI agents if they do not already have one, which then serves as the database for their applications.
- ▪The platform supports specific use cases like personal blogs, internal admin screens, and restaurant menus by mapping spreadsheet rows to web content.
- ▪Access is managed through unique API keys, enabling secure read and write operations from websites, forms, and automation tools.
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| Original publisher | SheetRelay |
| Canonical URL | https://sheetrelay.com/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:07:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-07T21:12:30.445Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-07T21:12:30.445Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | nx3ZPjRJ-Wxd · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Make your Sheetan APIan MCP servera REST endpointConnect a Google Sheet once. Your AI assistant and your code can both use it, under rules you set.Start freeSee how it worksABCDE1order_idcustomerqtystatustotal2A-1001Ada Okonjo3open270.003A-1002Bo Lindqvist12paid1,080.004A-1003Mira Haddad7open630.005A-1004Tomas Ferreira1paid90.006A-1005Noor Bakhtiari24open2,160.007A-1006Elif Yilmaz5paid450.008A-1007Jonas Weber9open810.009A-1008Priya Raman2paid180.00In ClaudeWhich orders are still open?Which orders are open?In your codeGET /acme/sales/orders?status=openGET /orders?status=open{ "rows": [ { "order_id": "A-1001", "customer": "Ada Okonjo", "qty": 3 }, { "order_id": "A-1003", "customer": "Mira Haddad", "qty": 7 } ], "count": 2 }Works with the tools you already…
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