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Maybe use a "happier" example than COVID cases on your landing page? Something that people aren't depressed to see go up? Seeing a graph of COVID trending upwards is going to put potential users into a negative mindset immediately, not something you want when they are learning about your new product. It's definitely low-hanging fruit for "everyone knows what this is and why you might want metrics on it" but I'd try a…
d—b could do CoVID, but with vaccination adoption.
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— HAS YOUR BUSINESS AN EXCEL PROBLEM?
No. I'm good at Excel.
— DO YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF UNMANAGED SHEETS RUNNING REPORTS?
Not really. I keep telling people to put files in the right Google Drive folders and one day very soon they definitely will, but we get by and so far it's not been a big problem.
— DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE WITH PROPER APPS?
Excel is a proper app.
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I think a big part of your messaging comes across like you're assuming the people who need your app are a bit stupid. You seem to think people can't workaround the problem your app tries to solve. They can, obviously, because they're running their businesses day to day. You need to push the reason why your app is a better solution rather than why Excel is bad (which it clearly isn't considering how many businesses use it for reporting).
Also, "UNLIKE EXCEL, JIG FILES ARE AUDITABLE"... I'm not 100% sure what you mean by auditable there, but Excel has features for auditing formulae. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/display-the-relat...
Now comes 99.9% of the work.
Reading the website with my startup founder hat on: -------- — HAS YOUR BUSINESS AN EXCEL PROBLEM? No. I'm good at Excel. — DO YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF UNMANAGED SHEETS RUNNING REPORTS? Not really. I keep telling people to put files in the right Google Drive folders and one day very soon they definitely will, but we get by and so far it's not been a big problem. — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE W…
This might be just me and my professional circle, but we understand "app" as a toy that runs on a phone. Apps, by definition, are never "proper". We would never replace Excel with an APP. We might replace Excel with a "program" or a "system", or even a "framework".
Reading the website with my startup founder hat on: -------- — HAS YOUR BUSINESS AN EXCEL PROBLEM? No. I'm good at Excel. — DO YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF UNMANAGED SHEETS RUNNING REPORTS? Not really. I keep telling people to put files in the right Google Drive folders and one day very soon they definitely will, but we get by and so far it's not been a big problem. — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE W…
Are they stupid? God, no! They do it, cause there's no better alternative. They just don't have the time to use anything fancier.
There is a European Research group that is funded to tackle what they call "spreadsheet risk", cause at some point, yes Excel becomes a problem.
EDIT: btw, auditing here means that you can't easily know what changed between 2 versions of a spreadsheet, unless you're extremely careful about how you write your sheet.
Reading the website with my startup founder hat on: -------- — HAS YOUR BUSINESS AN EXCEL PROBLEM? No. I'm good at Excel. — DO YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF UNMANAGED SHEETS RUNNING REPORTS? Not really. I keep telling people to put files in the right Google Drive folders and one day very soon they definitely will, but we get by and so far it's not been a big problem. — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE W…
> — DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE WITH PROPER APPS? This might be just me and my professional circle, but we understand "app" as a toy that runs on a phone. Apps, by definition, are never "proper". We would never replace Excel with an APP. We might replace Excel with a "program" or a "system", or even a "framework".
I think you should throw away everything and start from scratch sailing on an already solid platform. Whether that is a plugin for Office 365, a paid app for Smartsheet or Airtable or any other *already successful* platform. From your submission, I think what you are failing to understand is that you are asking people/companies to move their excel app/reporting to random-joe-bloggs' platform. It's not about the marke…
You are now on the front page of Hacker News- this is a golden opportunity to tell people about your product, yet there don't seem to be any links or information about it. Did you market it enough?
Clearly, the product's not ready, the message's not ready. A bit of a missed opportunity there.
Maybe in a couple of months when I have ironed out the wrinkles people saw here.