Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser
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I spend a lot of time working in Google sheets. Often, I will collaborate with up to 50 other people in the same workbook. One specific org I worked at had a strong preference for using comment threads in Sheets extensively to ask questions, give feedback, and raise risks.Sheets would regularly get 70+ comment threads across multiple tabs with dozens of contributing teams. As the owner of the sheet, I wanted a way to document the comments to retain traceability on all of the various conversations.To my surprise, there was no function built into sheets to scrape, count, sort or manage comments at all. I also couldnt find any good third party add-ons to solve the problem. So I built one myself.I discovered that the Drive API gives you the comment text, author and state, but doesnt give the location of the comment which was crucial. Thankfully, the .xlsx export has xl/threadedComments with the cell reference, timestamp, author, resolved flag and parent ID.How it runs: JSZip in the browser, no sign-in, nothing uploaded anywhere. I am in the process of having the app verified to be hosted on Google Workspace Marketplace, but in the mean time the tool is available at: https://github.com/bsunter93/commentpulse
HN · launched Sep 14, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 67%) · 1 view
Niche: spreadsheet tools and extensions · 138 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 138 launches in spreadsheet tools and extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side web utility that authenticates via OAuth to the Google Sheets / Google Drive API to fetch and display comment threads in a clean UI.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Docs
Concerns raised: Resolved threads disappear, Intermediate comments are hidden, Poor context retention in collaborative documents
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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