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there is a failed kickstarter from five years ago[1] which imagined an alternative to the traditional spreadsheet software. I imagine it would be fun to work on

there is a failed kickstarter from five years ago[1] which imagined an alternative to the traditional spreadsheet software. I imagine it would be fun to work on building such a thing, and I already know it would be more usable than Excel etc for many situations. e.g. the company I work for give me a credit card to use to buy fuel for my car, with a soft limit (i.e. nothing technical to stop me spending more, but they may revoke this privilege if I abuse it), and there is an additional discount which is not displayed at the pump or on the receipt. I track how many litres I purchase, along with the pump price at the time, and currently use Excel for this. But it's not really designed to show me how many litres I can still spend before the end of the month, based on recent fuel prices etc. I believe such a solution could help with this, but the dev that had this idea only wrote a UWP app, nothing cross platform or super fleshed out... [1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/395431036/threads-a-modern-alternative-to-the-spreadsheet https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/395431036/threads-a-mod...

gremlinsinc 8y ago
I'm actually thinking of building an airtable clone, on the back of a graphdb like arrango possibly, where you can actually embed other sheets in a field in a table, or link to other sheets, or just pull data from other sheets or 'bases', so that ALL data across multiple spreadsheets is accessible across all spreadsheets in one way or another. On top of that more data types including : binaries, images, passwords/crypto-hashed fields, pdfs, markdown -- with popup markdown editor. I'd also like to have some cool integrations ready to go like - being able to convert a spreadsheet of product listings into a complete shopify-like store. Add a product to spreadsheet, it shows up in store. (Similar concept but for Blogs). I'd also like to build in a very versatile 'event' system and api that basically makes everything zapier-ified, when data changes other things can happen. On top of that I'd like to add some app builder that can take data 'bases' and turn them into ios/android apps, similar to Bubble.us.

gremlinsinc 8y ago

I'm actually thinking of building an airtable clone, on the back of a graphdb like arrango possibly, where you can actually embed other sheets in a field in a table, or link to other sheets, or just pull data from other sheets or 'bases', so that ALL data across multiple spreadsheets is accessible across all spreadsheets in one way or another. On top of that more data types including : binaries, images, passwords/crypto-hashed fields, pdfs, markdown -- with popup markdown editor. I'd also like to have some cool integrations ready to go like - being able to convert a spreadsheet of product listings into a complete shopify-like store. Add a product to spreadsheet, it shows up in store. (Similar concept but for Blogs). I'd also like to build in a very versatile 'event' system and api that basically makes everything zapier-ified, when data changes other things can happen. On top of that I'd like to add some app builder that can take data 'bases' and turn them into ios/android apps, similar to Bubble.us.