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by denster 6y ago
Here's a counter argument: In college (17 years ago) a professor once told me that databases largely outlive the apps that use them. Imagine a world [1] where IT manages data centrally, but users are free to interact with it how they b
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by denster 6y ago
Very cool! I'll show this to our team [1]; we have a few keyboard ninjas & I think they'll absolutely love it. -- [1] team of https://mintdata.com , where we've been known to appreciate a fine keyboard shortcut
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by denster 6y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Card carrying member of the disagree-club here (malleable clan), but I think it's a tall order to ask users to write procedural code. Tools that are: (1) declarative by nature (HTML, DSLs) (2) based on direct manipulatio
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by denster 7y ago
We've [1] been fans of Hasura for some time -- it's a terrific piece of work. When we were looking to extend our spreadsheet functions that read/write to/from databases, we considered integrating Hasura as a backend. Com
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by denster 7y ago
I'm biased [1], but MintData ( https://mintdata.com ) is my personal favorite. It doesn't use Google Sheets, and instead has its own spreadsheet + Sketch-like surface, giving you tight control over design and behavior th
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by denster 7y ago
@andfrob, just saw your comment about SF Chronicle removing their timelapse view. We made one here from the NYT dataset on MintData [1]: https://nyt-map.covid42.com/ (note: I think we need to update the cumulative counter,
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by denster 7y ago
I had the same question, but noticed they have pricing at: https://stacker.app/pricing for a related project, from the same company. Perhaps pricing will be in a similar ballpark? At MintData [1], we get this asked a lot to
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by denster 7y ago
I'm biased [1], but agree with serjester -- the spreadsheet needs to be a part of the application authoring process. For data access, a tool like this needs to support: - lightweight: the spreadsheet itself - medium-weight: a built-in
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by denster 7y ago
Hi Andrew, I hope you don't mind, I saw this today and was inspired to build this: https://tests.covid42.com I'm planning to extend it with search functionality & an admin interface to help scale the sourcing of ne
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by denster 7y ago
Just to clarify, by "high fidelity" I mean way beyond "if I click here, show this Artboard". I think we need much more powerful metaphors to define behavior as we move from prototype -> high fidelity prototype -> f
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by denster 7y ago
I think this is exactly right. High fidelity collaboration between product, eng, design, and all other stakeholders is EXACTLY what's missing from today's tooling. Figma has great multiplayer support, and we've worked har
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by denster 7y ago
Good question! I think you're right & the open-source issue could be because closer coordination is needed between product & engineering. And while I'm biased [1] (as the founder of MintData), I think the future is instead
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by denster 7y ago
Hey sivaram636, it'd be fun to collaborate on maintaining this list of responses & how it evolves over time. We've built a quick UI that shows the same dataset & would be interested to see which other features the communit
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by denster 7y ago
We've seen this in customer deployments as well [1], that's why we always recommend UIs linked to a spreadsheet that help with verification & correctness of the underlying spreadsheet logic. [1] Implementations of MintData spr
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by denster 7y ago
They are a thing [1]. We use MintData spreadsheets for a large part of our regression test suite that tests MintData itself. A bit meta, but yes, spreadsheets can definitely be used for the equivalent of what "unit tests" are in c
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by denster 7y ago
This is very cool! While I'm biased [-], I think this only scratches the surface of what spreadsheets can do. What if spreadsheets could be used to create all software? Could the software be of the same quality & sophistication as
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by denster 7y ago
Chris, "substantially improve the status quo of spreadsheets and, by extension, programming." I couldn't agree more! We've created a new kind of spreadsheet for building software -- mintdata.com Would be great to get you