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> Everyone "normal" just uses Excel for things that really need a relational database! There's your answer. Excel is good enough for most people's needs, thoug
by pavel_lishin 2y ago
> Everyone "normal" just uses Excel for things that really need a relational database!
There's your answer. Excel is good enough for most people's needs, though I will admit that its failure mode is that people tend to get really good at it when they start pushing its boundaries to the point where a DB would serve them better.
- neonnoodle 2y agoMy frustration is that there isn't a desktop product midway between a spreadsheet and spinning up a dev environment for a custom CRUD app for a small group of users.
- pavel_lishin 2y agoI do think that Notion and its kin try to be that middle ground, though I don't know how well they succeed - I haven't used any of its database features.