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

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Well everyone is using google docs/sheets/slides google slides support SVG btw https://gsuite.google.com/

Not at any of the companies I have worked for or consulted for in the past 5 years. At least at the Fortune 500 level. I love using new tools but Google sheets is nowhere near Excel for more complex projects.

Fair enough. I assumed everyone here was some sort of a dev, I haven’t installed office and refuse to install it. I just use the google services for any ancient documents clients send my way.

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

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter ( https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com ) and Spreadsheet Web ( https://www.spreadsheetweb.com ) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.) Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid ( https://www.calculoid.com ), Calconic ( https…

Your website JavaScript was ruining my browser history. I had more then 10 entries and could not go “back”.

Just a friendly heads-up.

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

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter ( https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com ) and Spreadsheet Web ( https://www.spreadsheetweb.com ) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.) Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid ( https://www.calculoid.com ), Calconic ( https…

Ooohhhhhh i really like this info. Here is what i want, i want a cleaner way to parse a pdf into an xls or csv and be able to edit it on mobile .... Have any good references?

you will probably need to hire someone to do that

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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…

> ...Office seems to be stuck in 2005 That's false. Some features not available at 2005: - 2007: Ribbon UI - PowerPivot / PowerQuery / PowerView - Integration with OneDrive (Office talks to server) - Office Online Server (Office Lite in web in cloud or self hosted) - Not a feature, but subscription model + value added services users get.

I didn't mean that there's been no changes to office. Rather that office hasn't kept up with the modern habits.

Office is a world when vector graphics are in EPS, people don't want to re use diagrams in web pages, and app stores aren't mainstream.

Office having adopted tabbed toolbars in 2007 doesn't change that.

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

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter ( https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com ) and Spreadsheet Web ( https://www.spreadsheetweb.com ) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.) Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid ( https://www.calculoid.com ), Calconic ( https…

Ooohhhhhh i really like this info. Here is what i want, i want a cleaner way to parse a pdf into an xls or csv and be able to edit it on mobile .... Have any good references?

except the last part of "edit it on mobile", you can achieve it with https://extracttable.com

Feel free to direct any questions to brain@extracttable.com

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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…

Has it stopped, or are you maybe not the target/average user? Most Office users have no idea what SVG or JSON files are or why they'd use them. My experience is that Office has prioritized usability and automating tedious tasks, like theming, creating charts, and linking data back and forth. Every major version over the last 15 years has made some large usability improvements (e.g. format painter), but perhaps you'd…

A lot of people who work with data use Excel and JSON. Not most Excel users, but about as many as who know what VLOOKUP is.

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

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Nice! Using spreadsheets as a DB are trend now. Also Spreadsheets are pretty good CMS as well, so people can use it to create websites without code. I made an app called https://Sheet2Site.com which takes your Google Sheet of items/objects and translates it into an app, with filters and images

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

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter ( https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com ) and Spreadsheet Web ( https://www.spreadsheetweb.com ) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.) Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid ( https://www.calculoid.com ), Calconic ( https…

When I started Publisheet, the idea was that it would allow users to create static, web-based reports from their spreadsheets, including textual information that would be written as Markdown (with a WYSIWYG editor) directly in one or more cells. I thought that it would be an easy way to create complete financial reports, for instance. The landing page's images still reflect that.

But as soon as it launched, I noticed that no one was using it for text-heavy reports. People just wanted to publish their spreadsheets online, as is, with formula support. So, I started focusing on that and ended up in this crowded space, as you correctly state.

I think that Publisheet's main selling point is that it's really simple to install and use. There's no .exe to install, there is no need to upload the Excel file in the browser, there is no form builder. Also, it works on Windows, Mac and in Excel Online. You basically click Publish and it's done. But I am aware that all the systems you listed are way more feature-complete than Publisheet and it is something we'll have to improve.

By the way, congrats on Calcapp, it looks really polished!

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