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The idea of a "modern" Excel/Access is intriguing, but it's not without it's pitfalls. Basically, who uses Excel/Access a lot? Big Corporate America. Can they p
by waterside81 13y ago
The idea of a "modern" Excel/Access is intriguing, but it's not without it's pitfalls. Basically, who uses Excel/Access a lot? Big Corporate America. Can they put their data up anywhere and access it over the web? In some cases, yes, in most cases I've seen, no. So any solution, to really make a dent, has to be usable as a self-hosted app. No quant at a trading desk is going to willy-nilly upload their proprietary models to a startup running on EC2.
We encountered this push back with our software so we had to write an Excel add-in (code-signed, of course) for our corporate customers so they could use our software locally on their data sets without having to leave the comfy confines of their corporate firewall.
With all that said, I'm sure there is some segment of the population who don't mind their data up in the cloud if the UI on top comes close to Access. You just gotta find that segment.
- sheetjs 13y agoOne advantage of an in-browser tool is that the hosting can be anywhere, from the cloud to your local computer. I set up a simple nodejs server (using the module `j` http://npm.im/j http://npm.im/j) that exposes all of the XLSB files in a directory on a computer and generates Numbers-compatible CSV output so I can read the data on iPhone when I need to. The data is hosted locally, and unlike with saving CSVs the output is always up to date
- qq66 13y agoWhat's your product called?
- waterside81 13y agohttps://www.repustate.com/sentiment-analysis-excel-plugin/ https://www.repustate.com/sentiment-analysis-excel-plugin/
- notastartup 13y agowhoa that is seriously awesome tool! how do you build such excel plugins? have you also thought about listing it on the microsoft office store?