I built PasteSheet because our FAQ sheet kept going blank.
A day-job problem, a bad workaround, and the tool I wished existed instead.
At my day job, my boss had a simple idea: keep our FAQ in a Google Sheet so anyone on the team could add a new question without touching code, and do the same for a running list of customer reviews. No deploys, no CMS — just a sheet non-technical people could edit directly. We wired both up through a third-party spreadsheet-to-API service and moved on.
Then the FAQ page started showing up blank. Not an error, not a message — just blank. The service's free tier had a low monthly request cap, and normal traffic had quietly blown through it.
The fix I shipped was not a good one: three more accounts on the same service, rotated by hand, so we'd never sit on one account long enough to hit its limit. It worked. It also meant two low-stakes sheets — an FAQ and a reviews list — needed four juggled accounts just to stay online.
That's the specific problem PasteSheet exists to fix: a genuinely higher free tier, a request limit that tells you plainly when you're close instead of failing silently, and the parts an app or a spreadsheet-editing teammate both actually need — caching, private endpoints, schema alerts, MCP — without an account-rotation dance holding it together.
One sheet, three kinds of builders
My boss editing FAQ rows was never going to write a line of code — but a developer wiring that same sheet into an app, and an AI agent reading it through MCP, are both real audiences too. PasteSheet is built so the same endpoint serves all three without asking any of them to become the other. Restraint is part of the design: one accent color, one recurring motif, no feature nobody asked for — because the product is supposed to disappear behind the data, not perform infrastructure at you.
That’s also what keeps it distinct now that big players are entering the space. Google’s own tools — and hubs like Zapier — connect your account to your agent, behind a Google Cloud project you have to set up. PasteSheet does the opposite job: it publishes a sheet so anyone’s app, site, or agent can read it, from a pasted URL, read-only by design. Different problem, and the one my boss actually had.
2,000 requests / mo, free
No expiry, no credit card — enough headroom that a small FAQ or reviews sheet just works.
Clear errors, not blank pages
Hit your quota and you get a 429 that says so — never a silent, unexplained blank result.
One account, not four
Generous limits and a straightforward upgrade path — no rotating credentials to dodge a ceiling.
PasteSheet is built and maintained by one developer.
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