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Isn't that what Excel is for? Seriously... I worked for a company that was developing a web app for small businesses for their business processes, and its amaz
by futuremint 16y ago
Isn't that what Excel is for? Seriously... I worked for a company that was developing a web app for small businesses for their business processes, and its amazing (and appalling) how many small businesses use Excel spreadsheets for everything.
Even now I work on a product that manages data, and all the customers think a "data export" is a CSV file. I've run into some folks who think the app stores its data in "special spreadsheets"!
And frankly most small businesses don't care that Excel spreadsheets aren't all that great. They work well enough. The market has an education problem more than anything.
- samstokes 16y agoThere are definite advantages of dedicated software over spreadsheets (as a spreadsheet grows it comes to resemble software more and more anyway, so why build software that yourself?), but you're right about the education problem. I use FreeAgent, a UK-centric product similar to InDinero, and the tagline for their very successful referral program is "free someone you know from spreadsheet hell".