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In my experience in being hired years ago for this kind of work, there is a significant cost to going “web app” but I’d also sell custom excel plugins. Usually
by withinboredom 5y ago
In my experience in being hired years ago for this kind of work, there is a significant cost to going “web app” but I’d also sell custom excel plugins. Usually these businesses were hitting the limits of excel’s capabilities when humans need to be involved (complex and hard to adjust formulas, copy/paste mistakes, etc). Most businesses don’t realize they can just have a custom excel plugin, and sometimes that is all they need. Sometimes a web app or custom software is the better solution.
- jazzyjackson 5y agointeresting... whats that look like? I know of VB script that can manipulate tables... does that let you do custom GUIs too? Any API where a webform could interact with excel? I might like to get into this field, solving business problems without building a whole app sounds great.
- withinboredom 5y agoJust install the SDK when installing Visual Studio. I don’t see why you can’t have an embedded web view as long as you love Internet Explorer… it’s easier to just create a native UI though and call an API.