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by f292 11y ago
Worth clarifying that we don't do any of this - we absolutely don't scrape the data of your 1st degree connections or anyone else; only leads that you explicitly query. Email addresses are then verified using sources in the public
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Scraping Hacker News on a Schedule with TaskPipes(blog.taskpipes.com)
39 points by f292 11y ago|12 comments
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by f292 12y ago
Our users really are across a bunch of different industries. That's the thing - this is such a widespread problem that it's not constrained to one space. Data from Saleforce -> Mixpanel; eBay -> Shopify; NationBuilder ->
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by f292 12y ago
Thanks for asking. We're very much focussed on automating the process of getting rows and rows of data out of one system and into another. (e.g. transfer all of today's sales data from one platform to another) IFTTT is much more e
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by f292 12y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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TaskPipes (YC W15) Is SaaS to Simplify Using SaaS Platforms(techcrunch.com)
35 points by f292 12y ago|9 comments
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by f292 12y ago
The focus is much more on people who are currently running existing, manual processes in spreadsheets (e.g. monthly reporting) and has much less of a database element. For example, we don't do any of the "loading" stage in a
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by f292 12y ago
This is an awesome concept- I always find myself trying to get the best deals. The biggest issue for me is the upfront fee. A percentage of final savings would be far preferable.
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Convert complex spreadsheet formulas into simple reusable functions(useslate.com)
1 points by f292 12y ago|0 comments
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by f292 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The big pain point we are focussing on is when you are given someone else's spreadsheet that you are not familiar with. It then can take hours to get your head around how they have put it together. In this rega
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by f292 12y ago
We think a lot of the value in Slate will lie in the ability to alter the level of detail you can see in the model. One of the really exciting ideas we have is to allow you to group together nodes in a tree to form a "parent node"
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by f292 12y ago
Thanks for your comments - really useful. Sorry you did not find it helpful for the sheet you tried it on. We have not yet implemented a way of showing 2D nodes in an intuitive manner and this is one of our focuses for the next release. You
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by f292 12y ago
We have had a couple of larger firms suggest this as an option they would prefer, but moving quickly in this direction is the biggest problem though. Thanks!
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by f292 12y ago
Point taken! Will fix this.
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by f292 12y ago
What we have found is that one of the biggest problems in the BI space is the fact people are not able to code and resort to some of the horrific formulae we see. But agreed - including macros would add a huge new layer of complexity!
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by f292 12y ago
Good point. We have had some issues with corporate security, especially in larger organisations, and are looking at alternatives. Moving to cloud software could be an option, but big financial firms are even less open to that that what we a
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by f292 12y ago
Great would really like to hear what you think. My email is fraser@useslate.com if you have any feedback.
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by f292 12y ago
The add-in is currently bundled with all its dependencies so it will install quicker once you have downloaded it. Some of the bulkier files include the Chromium Embedded Framework dlls which we decided to include to get the slick animations
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by f292 12y ago
We're the cofounders of Slate. We've just released a stable beta - let us know what you think!
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Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet(useslate.com)
192 points by f292 12y ago|43 comments
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by f292 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback and sorry you dislike the music! We thought that the voiceover needed something extra so added it. As we move out of beta, we will definitely be looking at ways of improving the UI - ease of navigation is super impor
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by f292 13y ago
Thanks for the support and advice! Most of the big financial firms are at least 2 years away from adopting cloud software, so if we are to target these as our customer, then it would appear as though the add-in would be the sensible route.
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by f292 13y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback. At the moment, we are using the browser to render Slate view so that we could use available web technologies to draw the tree. Good point about Excel-DNA: we will take a look at this. We have had some compatib
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by f292 13y ago
The local version of Slate is a standard C# addin; the cloud version uses most of the same C# and Python. All of the visualisation is currently done in html, css + js. The add-in should work back to Excel 2007.
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by f292 13y ago
For the cloud version, we are mainly using C#, Python + JavaScript; and generate the tree by firstly accessing the internal XML of the spreadsheet file.
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by f292 13y ago
We are former oil and gas analysts and found that interpreting and understanding spreadsheets is an incredibly time consuming task. We have spoken to dozens of financial analysts (whom we have discovered are our primary user) and have found
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by f292 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I am one of the co-founders. To respond to these points: - Enterprise software seems to be moving increasingly towards a subscription pricing mode. (eg Office 365). Additionally, this is software that will be used o
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Ask HN: what are your most invaluable productivity tools?
2 points by f292 13y ago|1 comments
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by f292 13y ago
Not meaning to hijack the post, but I am currently working on a solution for error spotting in Excel- we really feel that this is one of the other huge problems with spreadsheets. Collaboration intrinsically leads to "lost in translati
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The 3 Biggest Excel Blunders of all time(slateforexcel.com)
3 points by f292 13y ago|0 comments

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