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Feels narrow and I don't see the payout. "They just need an easier on-ramp to their internal database to do things like comparing projected revenue to actual r
by tarr11 11y ago
Feels narrow and I don't see the payout.
"They just need an easier on-ramp to their internal database to do things like comparing projected revenue to actual revenue in order to close out this month’s financials."
This is a small gap. On one side, you have people copy-pasting CSV files into excel and doing it one-off.
On the other side, you have specialized SaaS products for business workflows. (Wouldn't you rather just use some accounting software to run your companies financials, rather than muck around in Excel?)
In the middle, you have people writing either code or Excel Macros to automate some of this. Looks like BlockSpring is meant to automate that group away. Just having spent 3 minutes with blockspring, there's friction. (Log into this service, fiddle with the parameters, clean up data, remove mess, etc)
I can see the IFTTT / Zapier comparisons but this is a lot more work and far less reward. Those tools give immediate results.
At the end of my integration with Blockspring, I'm left with a table of data that I STILL have to analyze in Excel.