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Pg's startup idea YC would fund from 2008: 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opport
by d--b 9y ago
Pg's startup idea YC would fund from 2008:
22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Like make it easier to get data into it, through forms or scraping.
Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people. The question to ask is: how much can I let people do without defining structure? You want the database equivalent of a language that makes its easy to keep data in linked lists. (Which means you probably want to write it in one.)
From: http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://old.ycombinator.com/ideas.html
- 2_listerine_pls 9y agoI bet every developer that has used sheets in a business setting has come to realize that there was a need for an intuitive web database with relations and forms. I was thinking about doing something like this the other day, also saw it Pg's startup list.
- yoshyosh 9y agoI bet there's still room for such a solution if it was targeted specifically to developers. I personally really liked Parse because of this functionality.
- kareemamin 9y agoDefinitely! You should check out https://base.run https://base.run - it's a solution targeted to developers that want to quickly build and test out ideas or internal tools
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- nunb 9y agoI wonder what pg thought of dabbledb