benborgers

Current Sponsors: 7
Past Sponsors: 3
Total Sponsors: 10
Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/benborgers

Name: Ben Borgers
Location: Boston, MA
Kind: user
Followers: 221
Following: 2
Total stars: 1275
Repositories count: 44
Created at: 2022-11-15T07:26:43.457Z
Updated at: 2025-03-25T20:59:47.741Z
Last synced at: 2025-03-25T20:59:47.741Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

Hi! I'm Ben. I'm a junior at Tufts University studying Computer Science.
I built opensheet, a free and open source API for accessing Google Sheets that gets 150,000,000 hits/month. People use it to power pieces of their websites that need to be easily updated from a spreadsheet. Some people even combine it with Google Forms to turn Google Sheets into a lightweight database for their app!
I built it for my own side projects and websites after Google deprecated their own easy-to-use API. But the blog post I wrote on how to use it seemed to resonate with folks, and it's grown more than I could've imagined.
🌟 I'll use the sponsorship to cover the hosting bill for my hosted server — opensheet.elk.sh, the one that gets 150,000,000 hits/month — which (as you may have guessed) is getting a bit costly.
I would love to keep offering the hosted instance as a reliable resource for folks to use in their projects. Thanks for taking a look!