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what was the original statement made by PG? so if anyone can help me understand what PG meant and what it is that people would like to see with the "modern" Ac
by notastartup 13y ago
what was the original statement made by PG?
so if anyone can help me understand what PG meant and what it is that people would like to see with the "modern" Access/Excel version, I might be able to create a quick prototype and get your feedbacks. Please email me and I'd love to send you an alpha version.
Basically, I'm missing what MS Access was like as I've never encountered it in my career path as a developer. If I could learn what made MS Access so lovable (or unlikable) as a pillar to shape the prototype from what I understand will need cross-platform, local, optional cloud upload (I totally get that you wouldn't want to upload your company's sensitive spreadsheet), and some of the basic functionality of a database management tool that are commonly used.
- byoung2 13y agohttp://ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html 22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid. People often use Excel as a lightweight database. I suspect there's an opportunity to create the program such users wish existed, and that there are new things you could do if it were web-based. Like make it easier to get data into it, through forms or scraping. Don't make it feel like a database. That frightens people. The question to ask is: how much can I let people do without defining structure? You want the database equivalent of a language that makes its easy to keep data in linked lists. (Which means you probably want to write it in one.)