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Find the spreadsheets people run their business with on a daily basis and turn them into web apps. Instant SaaS ideas.

• bko 4y ago
  I agree it might be an okay starting point, but it should not taken literally. It's a really hard sell. People really rely on the comfort of their formulas and being able to debug it. Even if they have no idea about the formulas, they need them there. And you're essentially fighting a losing battle as 95% of things you would want to do are easily extendable on a spreadsheet compared to a web app. Want to change the name and color of something? Congrats, you're building a no-code app. Create a chart? Now you're a charting app. Rename something? New formula? Slight variation to some formula? Do you want to upend your entire workflow on some startup you just heard about? It's a losing battle. The one exception is spreadsheets that do heavy calculation, and even then its not a clear win. If you have a 5 mb workbook that crunches a bunch of numbers, in which you have to create all this intermediate data to recreate what is essentially a for single for loop in code. The truth is spreadsheets are perfectly acceptable for many applications. They're a database mixed in with a logic engine. There's big issues around version control and there are companies trying to solve that like xltrail. But in general I think losing game