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100% Agreed! Defining logic in JS is quite clunky for these sorts of tools. I'm biased[1], but for this reason we took the approach of creating a spreadsheet f

100% Agreed! Defining logic in JS is quite clunky for these sorts of tools. I'm biased[1], but for this reason we took the approach of creating a spreadsheet from scratch for the sole purpose of creating logic for apps (both internal tools & customer facing UX). Would be curious to get the everyone's input on our spreadsheet-driven approach -- thoughts? [1] I'm biased, because I'm the founder of: https://mintdata.com https://mintdata.com [2] But this example shows what I mean by the "a spreadsheet is better to define logic than JS" approach: https://mintdata.com/showcase/photo-finder/ https://mintdata.com/showcase/photo-finder/

dang 6y ago
You've been excessively promoting this on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=denster https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=denster). Most HN readers consider that spamming. Note the site guideline: Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's also in somewhat bad taste to appear to be making a positive contribution to the discussion of someone else's work while actually promoting your own, and you've done that twice in this thread. (I hesitated to say something about this because Retool is a YC co and we moderate less in such cases (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=moderate%20less%20not%20more%20yc%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) but this principle is the same everywhere and I've made similar comments in many non-YC-related threads.)