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Have you looked at spreadsheetweb.com and calcfusion.com? The former seems mature, with plenty of real paying customers. The latter is new, and I guess they're
by osullivj 11y ago
Have you looked at spreadsheetweb.com and calcfusion.com? The former seems mature, with plenty of real paying customers. The latter is new, and I guess they're still working on getting traction.
- osullivj 11y agoHere's two more: karmaplatform.com and kdcalc.com. This whole area of converting end user produced Excel solutions to scalable systems does seem very promising. But no one has nailed it yet, and I suspect there are at least two reasons. 1) Over technical solutions that require a .xls to be converted into some other technical deployable eg kdcalc.com producing a .jar 2) The diversity of Excel based solutions eg spreadsheet as DB vs. spreadsheet as calc engine vs spreadsheet as reporting dashboard. So when you say "convert a spreadsheet into a web app", it means many things to many people. Which is a real expectation management challenge!
- singold 11y agoThe expectations management you mention is really important, I need to think how to communicate that clearly to customers. In this case we are going to make it "cloud based" so there's no need to deploy anything. About the different kind of spreadsheet uses, the more use cases that we can found the better, also we are going to start with the more simple cases to reach a functioning product and then expand to the most complex ones.
- singold 11y agoSeems like my google-fu is a little rusty, because I didn't find this kind of companies that I assumed that existed. This looks like real competition, what is good to validate that a market exists. Thanks for the tip! I would look into them with more detail tonight