Building Radar: A Google Sheets Hack for My Link Feed

Originally published on nvarma.com I'd just finished setting up a newsletter with Kit and tried webmentions (p.s. it was a waste of time, no backlinks showed up). I was thinking about what would actually make this site more useful for anyone who visits. I read a LOT of articles, blogs, hackernews, reddit, random LinkedIn/X/Substack posts, emerging tech news and so much more. I had this idea of a curated "what I'm reading" page. A place where I could share links and have them show up on my website automatically. The requirement was simple: click "Share" on an article on my phone, add a quick comment, and have it show up on my site. The name "Radar" came from a list of options (Signal, Bookmarks, Feed, Picks) but "on my radar" felt right for what this is. First attempt: social platforms My first thought was a public WhatsApp channel. Share a link from my phone, have my site pull it in. Deflect the scale problem to a third-party. Except WhatsApp has no public API for channels. So that was