Google Apps Script is easy to dismiss as a toy. Over two freelance projects it turned out to be a genuinely capable serverless platform for automation work built around Google Sheets and Telegram. This post covers the second of those projects — a reporting system for a US-market logistics business — and how I got there. First encounter I came across Apps Script on an earlier freelance job. A consulting firm needed a Telegram bot that generated templated Word contracts. They had started the work themselves in Apps Script but hadn’t finished it, so I picked it up and rebuilt the bot in Python with aiogram, rendering .docx files from templates using docxtpl and passing files around as base64. Apps Script was only incidental to that project, but it was my first look at the platform. ...