I think it's impossible to replace Excel en masse, so lots of folks are starting to pick off bits of it to replace. And hopefully in doing so they'll invest in

I think it's impossible to replace Excel en masse, so lots of folks are starting to pick off bits of it to replace. And hopefully in doing so they'll invest in making those bits a lot smarter than they are in Excel. Examples from the S12 YC batch alone: . VBA isn't great, so DataNitro is letting you use Python. . Grid is (mobiley) replacing the basic list-making use case of Excel. . (Stretch example:) Financial modeling of big personal finance decisions is a nice use case of Excel, but too hard for most people, so SmartAsset bakes those kinds of models into an on-site calculator. . Statwing is replacing pivot tables, which are clunky, devoid of statistics, do no error checking, etc.; in a few clicks Statwing will automatically choose, run, and interpret a statistical analysis, all the while looking for and alerting users to outliers or (some) other data issues. [I'm a cofounder. Also: https://www.statwing.com/demo https://www.statwing.com/demo] I'd expect that soon someone will come along soon and pick off the financial modeling use case in a way that's a bit more generalized than SmartAsset. Really tough UI challenge, but I think doable.