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With html, css and js

• lloydatkinson 4y ago
  Possibly the least useful advice in this thread
  • superkuh 4y ago
    Or the most useful. Simple making a bare HTML file using a static webserver and linking the actual spreadsheet files for download will provide the most value to other people while being the most robust, least attack surface, and least time to implement.
    • lloydatkinson 4y ago
      If all OP wanted to do was provide downloadable spreadsheets I don’t believe he would have asked the question. Telling someone to just “use css html and js” is about as helpful as telling someone to “just write code”.
      • groffee 4y ago
        Come on, a 'FAANG engineer' asking for help with this is like a gourmet chef asking for help boiling an egg. It's pretty much the most basic stuff imaginable, kids are learning this in pre-school pretty much.
        • lloydatkinson 4y ago
          Kids are learning how to build data driven and reactive forms, graphs, and tables, for calculating financial data?
          • yellowapple 4y ago
            I will disown and disinherit any child of mine who cannot build a reactive web-scale application by age 4.
            • lloydatkinson 4y ago
              Least insane HN user. (Don't worry I know you're joking).
      • superkuh 4y ago
        Op writes his request like he wants to help people. Doing it the simple html and files download way would help people quite a bit and very quickly. After all, it's the way he choses to do it, so it must be pretty good. It has all those properties he asked for and people don't even have to depend on a third party staying up. But you and many others picked up on the implicit premise of this request: to make it in a form that ranks highly on search. A form that is monetizable even if it doesn't help as much. To be clear, I realized this too but I still wanted to point out the more helpful way to cut this for-profit gordion knot. Maximize help instead of monetization and it's suddenly simple. And you can even work on making a JS/CSS web application after the 15 minutes the simple html+files way takes. Maybe someone else will even make it for you using the spreadsheets you put out. That'd save a lot of time and help everyone the same amount.
        • lloydatkinson 4y ago
          I’m afraid I don’t really agree - I didn’t write my suggestion or critique any of the other suggestions with Google or money in mind. I also disagree that downloadable HTML files are a good solution here. Downloading html files and then opening then isn’t really feasible for anyone outside the tech bubble we are in.