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All of which are subscription based SAAS. Maybe I am showing my VisiCalc oldster roots, but I want my document related tools to be pay once / run locally.
I long for a computing world where the free tier is run-in-a-browser-on-someone-else's-computer and the paid tier is run local and native.
Every day I think about how Microsoft Access allowed otherwise not-so-tech-savvy users to, with just a little training and practice, build a complete relational database for their entire business, supported by a relatively sane GUI and a way to build forms and reports with very little (if any) 'code'. I have no idea what small companies are using nowadays, but I think there has to be some untapped middle ground somew…
>Suddenly, the field has begun to bloom. A small cluster of startups have in the past year released spreadsheet products All of which are subscription based SAAS. Maybe I am showing my VisiCalc oldster roots, but I want my document related tools to be pay once / run locally. I long for a computing world where the free tier is run-in-a-browser-on-someone-else's-computer and the paid tier is run local and native.
Warning: I'm a founder working in the spreadsheet space, so take the rest of my this comment with a (large) grain of salt. I've written before [1] (HN and elsewhere) about how I think spreadsheets are the most popular programming paradigm ever, we just don't talk about it much. As this article mentions, there are many ways we can push this forward. I personally think the most powerful low-code spreadsheet tools we ca…
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Microsoft Access is, of course, still around. It would be great if there were a solid way to develop a database, forms, and reports in Access and then deploy it to the web. If you've ever had to work with someone else's Access database, it is unusual to see a reasonably normalized relational database. Most people are much more comfortable with the single flat file of Sharepoint lists.
For stuff at the scale of a small Access database, does the normalization (or lack of) end up being a big deal? I get that there are real advantages, I'm just wondering out loud whether they are universally applicable/important to small scale databases.
>Suddenly, the field has begun to bloom. A small cluster of startups have in the past year released spreadsheet products All of which are subscription based SAAS. Maybe I am showing my VisiCalc oldster roots, but I want my document related tools to be pay once / run locally. I long for a computing world where the free tier is run-in-a-browser-on-someone-else's-computer and the paid tier is run local and native.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft Access is, of course, still around. It would be great if there were a solid way to develop a database, forms, and reports in Access and then deploy it to the web. If you've ever had to work with someone else's Access database, it is unusual to see a reasonably normalized relational database. Most people are much more comfortable with the single flat file of Sharepoint lists.
For stuff at the scale of a small Access database, does the normalization (or lack of) end up being a big deal? I get that there are real advantages, I'm just wondering out loud whether they are universally applicable/important to small scale databases.
>Suddenly, the field has begun to bloom. A small cluster of startups have in the past year released spreadsheet products All of which are subscription based SAAS. Maybe I am showing my VisiCalc oldster roots, but I want my document related tools to be pay once / run locally. I long for a computing world where the free tier is run-in-a-browser-on-someone-else's-computer and the paid tier is run local and native.
The best startup ideas are creating one part of the O365 system (usually Excel) and monetizing it separately.
>Suddenly, the field has begun to bloom. A small cluster of startups have in the past year released spreadsheet products All of which are subscription based SAAS. Maybe I am showing my VisiCalc oldster roots, but I want my document related tools to be pay once / run locally. I long for a computing world where the free tier is run-in-a-browser-on-someone-else's-computer and the paid tier is run local and native.
Sadly it feels like single purchase software is on its way out. All the momentum is toward SAAS.