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I think 'products replacing spreadsheets' is not the right angle. Spreadsheets are great but not for everything. I think there are a lot of mis-uses of spreads
by foxbee 5y ago
I think 'products replacing spreadsheets' is not the right angle. Spreadsheets are great but not for everything.
I think there are a lot of mis-uses of spreadsheets. When users record list type data, long-form content, relational data, etc within spreadsheets, they are probably better off using an app - they, or their IT team can build.
I once seen an enterprise org process where a health and safety check was completed on a clipboard. That user would go back to their desk, push that data into excel, another user would write a script to push that excel data into MySQL.
There are many use cases where spreadsheets are perfect - building financial models.
For transparency - I am the cofounder of a no/low-code tool called Budibase. I am also a happy spreadsheet user.
https://github.com/Budibase/budibase https://github.com/Budibase/budibase