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Show HN: Turn Excel spreadsheets into APIs
- polskibus 11y agoAre you parsing xlsx and converting it to your format and data model? Or are you running excel instances under the hood? What will happen if there's an odbc connection inside xlsx? Will it be properly executed?
- julienmarie 11y agoWe run the Excel spreadsheets on our engine. For security purposes, some Excel features are for the moment disabled ( macros, xll, odbc ). Our take is these features are to be handled by your code, that send data to the spreadsheets. The sheet will handle the logic ( business rules, computations ) and send back the result to your app.
- veb 11y agoPlease remember that if you're going to have a video on your website to explain _what_ your site does -- use subtitles/captions! You'll reach a whole lot more people by doing that. You can even translate the subtitles. They're also a good way of making a video into meta-data. Use the Amara project. It's as easy as linking your video, writing a line or three, and then passing it around until it's done. Then someone else could come and translate it. Video i18n! Example using Amara wrapper http://pleasecaption.me/example/my_face_is_burning.html http://pleasecaption.me/example/my_face_is_burning.html Then an example using video.js with link to a srt file: http://pleasecaption.me/example/ http://pleasecaption.me/example/ (Amara, http://www.amara.org http://www.amara.org)
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- hatsix 11y agoHow does this compare to http://appsheet.com/ http://appsheet.com/ ?
- julienmarie 11y agoHi. Instead of focusing on trying to make Excel a DB, we focus on the strength of Excel which is computations and business rules. That's the main difference :)
- mariocarvalho 11y agoHi. And how does it compare with http://sheetsu.com http://sheetsu.com ?
- julienmarie 11y agoSheetsu is for Google Spreadsheet first, and is data oriented. We are rules and computation oriented. We do not just read the sheets, we execute them.