anakic

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1. 91.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Thank you for buying it!!
2. 92.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   I had the same problem. Transitioning from having built the thing to asking people to pay for it felt quite awkward at first. I feel a lot less awkward about it now that I do have paying customers who are happy with it and use it daily. It
3. 93.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Well, some things you certainly could, but this really opens up many more possibilities than is obvious at first glance. Another big thing is convenience, which is along the lines of what you said. Single click to open query editor, full au
4. 94.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Yeah, the .NET one - VSTO, visual studio tools for office. Haven't played around much with the web one. Most things QueryStorm does wouldn't be possible in the office apps model, e.g. hosting SQLite. It's too bad because it l
5. 95.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Glad you like it!:) It's a per-user installer, so only you would see it. It shouldn't require admin privileges unless a prerequisite is missing. It requires .NET 4.5 and vstor (visual studio tools for office runtime). - .NET 4.5 c
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   by anakic 10y ago

   About source control in Excel, there's a London based company offering a product along those lines called Pathio ( https://www.pathio.com/ ). I know it's not open source, but I'm mentioning it just in case you
7. 97.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Yeah, something like that might be the way to do it. Cut off old licenses from new versions but leave it functioning indefinitely with old versions. Offer a paid upgrade option. I think I like that option.
8. 98.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Seems to work fine for me. Hopefully it was just a glitch.
9. 99.▲
   by anakic 10y ago

   Exactly, you can really go to town on your data, get nasty with it:) I love regex myself, I feel like a ninja using them:) The replacex function was one of the first ones I implemented. Regex_split is the latest one and I love it (the singl
10. 100.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Thanks, your comment made me smile:)
11. 101.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Thanks for your purchase!:) I'm really glad you like it. One thing to note - since the db engine is running in the same process as Excel it can interact with it. There are some nice things it can do because of this, for instance, SQL-b
12. 102.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Absolutely. I actually built a reusable infrastructure of my own. It was technically very cool to work on, and at the time I still hadn't yet made the mental shift of buying services that weren't my core domain. The infrastructure
13. 103.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Hi patates. I get your point. As a user, I'd want that too. I had previously priced the professional license at $149 as a one-off price, but then noticed companies were buying those instead of the enterprise ones, and getting unlimited
14. 104.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Is anyone having installation issues? I'm showing strange things in logs. I can see downloads, but my licensing service does not seem to be issuing the free licenses.
15. 105.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Thanks for the heads up (fixed it) and the kind words!
16. 106.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    I've posted about this about six months ago, the original post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583488 ) was fairly well received, and I thought I'd follow up. Back then the plugin was called ThingieQuery, w
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    Show HN: QueryStorm – A query IDE inside Excel(querystorm.com)

    130 points by anakic 10y ago|64 comments
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    A .NET library for better application state management(github.com)

    2 points by anakic 10y ago|0 comments
19. 109.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Thank you, all very good points.
20. 110.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Any chance you could send me your contact info?
21. 111.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    That sounds awesome! Send me some contact info and I'll get in touch!
22. 112.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    And you made my day:)
23. 113.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Well it was fun, I felt it was the type of tool I would want for my self in Excel. Also, not liking ones regular job goes a long way to fuel enthusiasm for hobby projects:) And it did hit the front page when /u/petepete crossposte
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    by anakic 10y ago

    Thanks! 1 - much debate about this, it's certainly safer to do so 2 - if you take a look at the license again you'll notice the digital signature field, to make a generator you would need my private key:P Boat is good, I like boat
25. 115.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    They're good for aggregating data, but they're not designed for precise querying, manipulating and cleaning data. If they were, we'd likely see powerpivot replacing sql server management studio:)
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    by anakic 10y ago

    If you connect using a SQL Server instance yes, with the built in database - no, SQLite doesn't have them yet. I've added some of my own functions to the SQLite engine though, e.g. ElementAt(pos, elements, orderElements) will retu
27. 117.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Would have to think about it, I think I'd say yes to re-selling, not sure about white labeling though, to be successful with it I need to build the brand. Too late here to say anything more, barely awake at the moment:)
28. 118.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Doesn't support it yet, did not think to use it for directory services, that's an excellent idea! PowerQuery can query ad already though but still, it's worth investigating. Thanks for the tip.
29. 119.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Thank you, that's the plan! And hopefully to earn a decent living while I'm at it:)
30. 120.▲
    by anakic 10y ago

    Any idea what the tool is called? Can't seem to find it on their website