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I think it's important to share the context behind this project: I work on the Data team of an acquired startup, working a lot with business/product people. We
by huy 12y ago
I think it's important to share the context behind this project:
I work on the Data team of an acquired startup, working a lot with business/product people. We communicate a lot through internal chat (Hipchat!) and get a lot of requests for adhoc data.
We (the data people) would then run these quick queries, export the results and send over to them in email (CSV).
I find this process very cumbersome, as they'd have to open their email, download the CSV and load them into Excel to be able to see them. Sometimes it's just a small table, and doing this is really inefficient.
That's why we made ShareCSV: They (Product/Marketing/Business) just get a link to click, and most of the time they'll see the numbers they need without having to download anything (and having Excel/OpenOffice to open them).
- akx 12y agoGood stuff. There's one "killer feature" you could add, though: .XLS/.XLSX(/.ODS) export that works better than Excel's notoriously terrible CSV import wizard. That would make it instantly possible to continue analyzing the data in Excel if such a thing is required.
- huy 12y agoThanks a lot! I think that is a "killer feature" too. Will look into implementing that.