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Ask HN: Are there any startups that work on the ms excell/access killer?
- dougbarrett 14y agoI've always been interested in creating a RAD interface similar to how MS Access works. When I was 18 years old, I created some simple patient management software in Access, and it was great! Within a few weeks of never using Access before and no real familiarity with any SQL, I had built a pretty cool application I thought. There was only one big issue: the dependency of the software was Microsoft Access...a pretty big overhead for a single application. I've been using Twitter Bootstrap almost since day 1, and with a good PHP framework (like Kohana), I can pretty much make RAD applications similar to what I did in access in half the time, and there are a lot less limits of who can use that software. One day, my goal is to create an interface builder with Twitter Bootstrap elements (I've dabbled in it before w/ other projects, and I've seen some great software on HN of people that are doing UI builders w/ Twitter Bootstrap), but then you can write custom queries for filtering data. It wouldn't be a 1:1 SQL command, I believe they are too complex for what I want to do and it seems like a lot of work. My though is it'd be a drag and drop interface similar to the one in Access. -------- If there is a startup that's doing an Access killer, then that is awesome! It'd be even more cool if it was web-based!