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Am I missing something? I used to run a fairly large landscaping company with a partner out of gSheets so I was excited when I saw this. But at the moment this
by serjester 7y ago
Am I missing something? I used to run a fairly large landscaping company with a partner out of gSheets so I was excited when I saw this. But at the moment this just seems like a wrapper that takes away most of the useful functionality of a spreadsheet. I could see something like this being great if it had integrations with payroll, accounting, etc software but it currently seems far too basic to be usable.
- tyingq 7y agoThat seems to be on purpose. They are using the sheet as a database, and abstracting all but the "admin" away from direct access. Using sheets for the back-end is unusual, but otherwise it's the same space as Knack, Quickbase, Zoho Creator, etc. They are all pretty popular.
- denster 7y agoI'm biased [1], but agree with serjester -- the spreadsheet needs to be a part of the application authoring process. For data access, a tool like this needs to support: - lightweight: the spreadsheet itself - medium-weight: a built-in set of functions for storing/fetching data (from a built-in, behind-the-scenes DB) - heavyweight: functions for accessing data in an existing corporate DB, queue (Kafka, JMS, etc), and other sources in real-time [1] Founder of https://mintdata.com https://mintdata.com, where we think spreadsheets have a bright future in this space :)
- fragmede 7y agoWhat definition of "real-time" are you using here? I presume you're not using the RTOS[] definition, so I'm just curious what workload you would consider "heavyweight" and what kind of real time guarantees that means the ideal system would have. [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_operating_system