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I spent years using Excel but I mostly use Google Sheets now. The cloud integration just feels much more effortless compared to Microsoft’s Office products port

by hbarka 4y ago

I spent years using Excel but I mostly use Google Sheets now. The cloud integration just feels much more effortless compared to Microsoft’s Office products ported to cloud. I’ve seen departments using GS as a system of record for quickly setting up master data like budgets and forecasts. I wish it had database connectivity the way Excel has ODBC.

mritchie712 4y ago
I founded https://seekwell.io/ https://seekwell.io/ because I had that same wish a few years backs. Also worth checking out https://equals.app/ https://equals.app/
- silvershell 4y ago
  Seekwell.io is giving me a 502 Error as of now.
  - mritchie712 4y ago
    weird, GCP might have been down a moment? Is it working now?
cocothem 4y ago
Have you looked at connected sheets? https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/connected-sheets https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/connected-sheets
- hbarka 4y ago
  That article describes how to use GS as a front end for BigQuery data. I’m describing the opposite, which is ingesting spreadsheet data into databases.