Grist is a relational spreadsheet that takes data management to the next level. Import your data, link records across tables, and arrange your data in your ideal layout. Congrats! Your spreadsheet is now also your custom data application.
GristMaker
Hello Hunters! 👋
The invention of spreadsheets has created amazing value for the world — simply by allowing people to organize data, calculate with it, and lay it out in a grid. But spreadsheets fall short in key ways that you've likely encountered.
💡 WHY WE BUILT GRIST
Some years ago, I was an engineer at Google and got to work on Google Sheets. In the process, I became very handy with it, and used it to set up a workflow for a non-profit that I later started. The power and flexibility of spreadsheets made it easy. But as the project grew in the amount of data, its complexity, and number of collaborators, it started falling apart. Some tasks became too time consuming, some sheets too scary to touch, and some questions required poring through many sheets and became impractical to answer. Back then, we had to switch to a custom-built web app to replace our spreadsheets. But the spreadsheet was so close!
We built Grist to be as easy to start with as a spreadsheet, but to let it grow with your needs. You can start building a spreadsheet, and end up with a proper relational database and a versatile custom application, all in one.
💐 WHAT'S SPECIAL
Grist is a relational spreadsheet built on a philosophy of openness and extensibility. This makes storing data in Grist a solid and durable bet. And it allows you to do more with Grist than we could anticipate.
* There is no data lock-in. You own your data, and can export it in full as a SQLite database (or Excel, or CSV), or access it via API.
* Our core code is open-source. You can build and run Grist yourself, or contribute to it. Read our motivation: https://www.getgrist.com/blog/gr....
* Formulas can use familiar Excel-like functions, but are powered by Python. In fact, you are welcome to use Python freely in formulas, including the entire standard Python library.
* Developers can use our API to make connections, and create custom widgets to add functionality right inside Grist.
* Our roadmap is public. You can see what we are working on or planning to build: https://github.com/gristlabs/gri....
* We are active in the community for Grist creators: https://community.getgrist.com/. Please visit to ask questions or share ideas.
😺 🗂 🚀 WHO IT’S FOR
From simple lists, to scientific research, to tracking of customers, inventory, or projects, most business data is a collection of records. Every use case has its special needs. Grist makes it easy to set up these records, to create relationships between them, and to see related data on the same screen.
It’s developer-friendly, but most of our users are not developers at all. Don’t be intimidated! Start simple by importing some data, or exploring a ready-made example in our template library: https://docs.getgrist.com/p/temp....
🌅 TRY GRIST TODAY
Our free plan is sufficient for many purposes. Try it and see if it meets your data needs.
Want to bring the power of Grist to your team? Create a Team Site and enjoy unlimited documents, workspaces, and real-time collaboration. Use the discount code "PHUNT2021" at check out for a 50% discount for your first 12 months, after a 30-day free trial.
Welcome to Grist!
- Dmitry
Grist CEO
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AI Titans - The Quiz@dsagal Great work here, especially like that I can make my own layouts.
Just launched yesterday, so totally get how you must be feeling. Goodluck @anais_c !
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GristMaker
@kmanjita Congrats on your successful launch yesterday! No-code for the win! 🙂 💪
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AI Titans - The Quiz@dsagal nocode for the win alrighty! :)
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GristMaker
@dsagal @kmanjita Thank you! Congrats on your launch! 💪
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Product Hunt?makers I love what you're building. Having worked with non-profits, I can totally relate how challenging it can be to link different sheets and bring them all under one place. Thank you also for working on different user personas and creating such useful templates to start right away. Checking out the CRM template rn 🤓
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GristMaker
@adityavsc Thank you, Aditya! By the way, we offer a 50% discount for non-profits. 💪 Several NGO teams use Grist and we love supporting the work they do.
There's also a grant application tracker in the template gallery that might be useful. https://templates.getgrist.com/s...
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Product Hunt@anais_c superb! sharing this with a few non-profits :)
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Congrats!
I found a lot of great use cases for Grist.
I have already used it for:
1. fast data analysis by exporting data from multiple systems, super fast matching and calculations 2. helper for manually moving Prestashop to wordpress + woocommerce for some old site, it was the they faster than dealing with all the data using sheets
3. as a database for scraping some data from the sites using API, developing it right now and looks like it could be a gem for me. Scrapping some data → put it in grist to collect historical data + combined with n8n integration to collect some other external data with prebuilt integration.
So it will be a marketing tool for competitors analysis and comparing it with my client's results.
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GristMaker
Thanks @konstantin_fedorov! Very glad to hear it's working well, and look forward to seeing you more on our forum :)
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GristMaker
@konstantin_fedorov Thank you so much for breaking down your use case, Konstantin! 🙌
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Python 🚀
Excel-like formula 🚀
Database 🚀
Extensible 🚀
Custom subdomain and domain 🚀
Unlimited API on team plan 🚀 🚀 🚀
What's there not to like? I've been waiting for true Airtable alternative. I'm going to sign up now.
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@hendrik_yap Thank you, Hendrik! 🙌
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Ahhhh are you kidding me this is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! It appears to be 100000× better than Airtable AND it’s open source?!?!? 🤯 My mind is blown — I really hope it’s at least 50% as great as it looks. 🤞
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GristMaker
@anna_0x Thank you, Anna! Let us know what you think once you try it out. :)
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?makers Congrats on the launch - I can already see many use cases for our business. Can you please let me know what limitations you have on data rows? We are an e-commerce store with over 50k SKUs so quite a few rows are needed.
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GristMaker
@damien_green2 Thank you!
As a rule of thumb, Grist works best for documents under 100,000 rows. The actual limit depends also on the number of tables, columns, and the average size of data in each cell. Though speaking honestly, at above 50,000 it does slow down a bit. Supporting bigger data is on our roadmap. https://github.com/gristlabs/gri...
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Congrats on the launch, @anais_c What are all the different ways to populate the spreadsheets, just import? Since i have a mix of automated data and form data. thanks
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GristMaker
@hug_o Thanks, Hugo! 😁 You can import CSV, Excel, or directly from Google Sheets with our native integration. You can also import using our REST API or third-party integrators. We currently support Zapier, Pabbly, KonnectzIT, Integrately, and n8n.
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