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Can it calculate words per minute too? That would be helpful.

> Imagine building an entire business that ceases to be profitable as soon as you can't spy on users. >I wish we could do the same thing to Google. You’re assuming Google’s core bu…

VisiCalc was conceived in 1978, before the internet and all the data that comes with it. Excel has had to catch up with these developments and is finally doing a good job with it.

This is a great idea but the list seems incomplete. For example, where are the email marketing tools? Mailchimp / Intuit, Convetkit, SendFox, and so many more. There are many other…

In this context I’m interpreting DSL to mean “domain-specific language”

> Excel may be the most influential software ever built. I believe this to be true in business. Other tech may be more widely used eg “email” but the software is created by a varie…

I signed up for a Codeblog! The Captcha making me pick photos of traffic lights and cross walks to verify my humanity feels like the antithesis of what this article and product is …

One use case where this does not work: when attempting to learn if someone understood you properly. I find myself asking short, direct questions, often in a managerial capacity, to…

I feel like a more appropriate name would be “write first, then build”. “Documentation” reminds the product managers and engineers of corporate-y documents like release notes. The …

>Opening in 2022, our state-of-the-art Texas manufacturing site will manufacture products to address drug shortages and price gouging [1] Their website says they will start manufac…

>If you won’t or can’t talk to customers then at least make the thing simple. The simpler something is, the more people will use it. Great advice

Good point, I’m sure more exist today and will be created in the future.

Google is a large, horizontal platform. My intuition is the next Google killers will be specific to verticals, health comes up on HN a lot. All that to say, if I were yep I would f…

> We believe the best way to protect user data is to not have it in the first place I like the exchange of value that comes from paying money for a service. With free products from…

> Excel is cheap and and you can find it everywhere.

Thank you, very helpful answer. I was not trying to be antagonistic, I had never heard a critique of calendly and wanted to understand how an open source project would improve the …

Why does this problem warrant an open source alternative? What are the downfalls with Calendly being “closed” that this aims to solve?

What is your methodology to collect the tech stack data? Some things seem easy to identify, eg Google Analytics, and others much harder, eg back office like Microsoft Excel.

Spreadsheets are one of the most ubiquitous business tools in the world. Similar to email, another ubiquitous business tool, there are good uses and bad uses of the tool. Users nee…

In reading this article on finance my mind drifts to the refrain on HN that search (Google) is broken and ready to be disrupted. Can consensus mechanisms on distributed systems hel…

Contextual advertising https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/contextual-advertising....

Do you believe privacy is 100% respected in the offline world? A billboard for a personal injury lawyer on the highway or an ad for headphones at a subway stop are all examples of …

Perhaps a bit idealistic but I aspire for a world where companies can segment and target their market while consumers maintain a level of privacy.

> The truth is we’re in a post-truth world, where more than one opinion is valid. You should never trust just one single source of information, without validating what it's telling…

Excel, and spreadsheets, need a re-branding campaign. They are cloud-based, low-code, ELT tools; these terms are typically associated with buzzy enterprise tech companies, not tech…