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Spreadsheet.com will be retired on May 31, 2024

34 points by airstrike 3y ago

yawnxyz 3y ago
would be nice if they open sourced some of the code!
IronWolve 3y ago
My work uses smartsheet and its widely popular. Wonder why spreadsheet.com couldn't compete.
- timeagain 3y ago
  Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventing, reporting, and product management tools that are baked right into the spreadsheet. It’s like a crappier (but vastly cheaper) version of salesforce, qualtrix, asana, and tableau all in one beautiful data model. I say this as a former employee.
  - Tagbert 3y ago
    We use Smartsheet for the project planning feature. I even wrote a utility to take a Smartsheet excel export and generate a more polished Gantt chart for presentation.
ukuina 3y ago
> despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth. VC strikes again!
- PufPufPuf 3y ago
  It's no longer about building a sustainable company, it's about building a fast-growing promise of market dominance.
  - presentation 3y ago
    It’s never been about building a sustainable company with VC
- sydbarrett74 3y ago
  VC is a euphemism for pump-and-dump.
- rekabis 3y ago
  >VC Funny how that is quickly becoming backronymned to Vampire Capitalism.
lucas03 3y ago
decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.
koolhead17 3y ago
What will happen to the codebase and amazing product they have built?
amadeuspagel 3y ago
I guess a good dotcom isn't everything. Or maybe $category.com isn't a good dotcom, at least when $category has established competitors.
ianschmitz 3y ago
It’s sad that so many tech companies are pressured to grow or die. It feels rare to see folks build stable, healthy growth businesses these days. Gotta burn through all the cash and get that next round of funding!

34 points by airstrike 3y ago

yawnxyz 3y ago

would be nice if they open sourced some of the code!

IronWolve 3y ago

My work uses smartsheet and its widely popular. Wonder why spreadsheet.com couldn't compete.

timeagain 3y ago
Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventing, reporting, and product management tools that are baked right into the spreadsheet. It’s like a crappier (but vastly cheaper) version of salesforce, qualtrix, asana, and tableau all in one beautiful data model. I say this as a former employee.
- Tagbert 3y ago
  We use Smartsheet for the project planning feature. I even wrote a utility to take a Smartsheet excel export and generate a more polished Gantt chart for presentation.

ukuina 3y ago

> despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth. VC strikes again!

PufPufPuf 3y ago
It's no longer about building a sustainable company, it's about building a fast-growing promise of market dominance.
- presentation 3y ago
  It’s never been about building a sustainable company with VC
sydbarrett74 3y ago
VC is a euphemism for pump-and-dump.
rekabis 3y ago
>VC Funny how that is quickly becoming backronymned to Vampire Capitalism.

lucas03 3y ago

decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.

koolhead17 3y ago

What will happen to the codebase and amazing product they have built?

amadeuspagel 3y ago

I guess a good dotcom isn't everything. Or maybe $category.com isn't a good dotcom, at least when $category has established competitors.

ianschmitz 3y ago

It’s sad that so many tech companies are pressured to grow or die. It feels rare to see folks build stable, healthy growth businesses these days. Gotta burn through all the cash and get that next round of funding!