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Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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This is amazing, but there is no way that my firm will send any excels with our data to a relatively small and unknown third-party provider who will host it on a public URL. Are you thinking about allowing users to run this on-site?

This is a valid concern that people have shared with me before. It isn't in my immediate plans yet but depending on more feedback, we might offer an on-site solution in the future.

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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post #9

Cool idea. I like how focused it is. I'd love to be able to see an example without signing up though.

Haven't gotten around updating the landing page yet but here is an example: https://www.publisheet.com/demos/quotation-demo.

Just tap the screen or move your mouse over the page and you'll see which cells are editable.

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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I'm surprised MS Office development seems to have just...stopped. Powerpoint can't import an SVG (it turns it into a low res raster image). Powerpoint can't export SVG either, if I want to use a Powerpoint diagram in a web page. I opened a JSON file in Excel expecting to see nested values and nope, it doesn't support that file format. Office isn't even available in the Windows app store. When Microsoft's going full s…

Uhm, I can import vector SVGs into Powerpoint (2019 or Office 365) just fine.

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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post #7

This is amazing, but there is no way that my firm will send any excels with our data to a relatively small and unknown third-party provider who will host it on a public URL. Are you thinking about allowing users to run this on-site?

I was about to say the same. I'd pay for a license to use a self-hosted version.

Sheetjs.com seems in the same space and you can self host.

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

#19

Really nice, tried with a chart and worked smoothly. Just for fun: would be nice to know max publishing - I just tried 1k * 30 columns and it errored out. I wanted to see how I could interact with a large chart of data.

Yeah, we haven't defined a limit yet but letting it error out is definitely not acceptable. We'll fix it, thanks for the feedback.
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