💡 SaaS Idea: SheetAPI Pro – Secure no-code Google Sheets to REST API
Turns any Google Sheet into a scalable, secure REST/GraphQL API with fine-grained row-level auth, rate-limiting, and caching. Removes OAuth headache and Google quota limits that engineers complain about when prototyping back-ends or internal tools.
Platform: web
Why it's a good idea?
1. Market pain evidence
- Reddit post supplied by founder (“Tired of the Google Sheets API headache…”) already hit r/node front-page – clear up-votes & comments complaining about OAuth, quotas, and rate limits.
- Hacker News thread #40016131: people debating whether native Google Sheets API limits (60 writes/min) are usable in production – >120 comments, many looking for alternatives.
- Google search shows dozens of tutorials titled “Turn Google Sheets into an API” and “Google Sheets as backend” – DIY hacks are popular because official API feels heavy.
2. Search-keyword data (low difficulty, ≥500 searches)
| Keyword |
Monthly volume |
Difficulty |
| google sheets database |
880 |
11 |
| google sheets as database |
880 |
1 |
| google sheets api python |
880 |
21 |
| google sheets api |
3,600 |
40 (a bit high) |
| => Two core intents (use sheets as DB + use API programmatically) each have 880 searches with single-digit/low-20s difficulty ⇒ plenty of SEO head-room. |
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3. Competitor landscape & pricing (prove willingness to pay)
- SheetDB – from $19/mo basic, $129/mo+ for higher tiers.
- Sheety – freemium, $12–$99/mo.
- Sheet2API – $9–...
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