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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned spreadsheets - specifically Google Sheets or something scriptable and hosted. Recently I've built up a small system which sucks
by cameronbrown 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned spreadsheets - specifically Google Sheets or something scriptable and hosted. Recently I've built up a small system which sucks in data from a few places (fitness, task management, calendar,..) and analyses it against several goals I've set. This means I can see how I'm progressing towards what I want without even touching it anymore.
They're a really nice UI for bootstraping projects, and even some small databases. A current project of mine for a client uses sheets as a backing store for an email collection list. Since there's only a few hundred rows, it makes sense at this scale and works really well for non-technical users.
- Forge36 7y agoSimilarly Microsoft Access. I learned Access for my first job (100% of my job was moving tasks into Access, 3 years later I helped some interns transition to a SQL server+web application). 10 years later I'm still using Access for some aspects of my new job. The ability to quickly prototype something and receive almost immediate value is vastly underestimated (I know of one company which runs all of their tasks out of Access).
- cameronbrown 7y agoI suppose what I've described is just a little more of an unstructured version of this. Mixing data and computation in such a way is definitely a tech debt tradeoff though.
- thecupisblue 7y agoExcel & Google Sheets are probably the best enterprise software development platform ever made.