This was also an idea that I was playing around with in 2008. The basis of the idea is that millions of people have knowledge of using a speadsheet but not many

This was also an idea that I was playing around with in 2008. The basis of the idea is that millions of people have knowledge of using a speadsheet but not many of then can develop and launch a web app. So my idea was to provide the missing link, a web service that takes a spreadsheet and puts out a web app/site hosted. I did not pursue that when google docs released web form for your spreadsheet.