Calling it a spreadsheet and making it look and work like a spreadsheet is a bad idea, because now you're competing against Excel.
It does work like a spreadsheet.
The point is to compete against Excel.
Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet
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#42At this point, can all new "super spreadsheet" products please come with a standardised proforma comparing them to the other 50 super spreadsheet apps along a set of standardised comparison points please? I genuinely do not have the time to compare between this, air table, Monday.com, smart sheet, etc etc etc
IMO spreadsheets must have cell-level flexibility and similar formulas
Monday.com and Airtable are not spreadsheets.
Smartsheet is a spreadsheet, geared towards enterprises
Rows is a spreadsheet
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hear you, but you know it is not much different than the variety of programming languages or frameworks we are used to. I think there is still a huge market for new spreadsheet apps. Some will succeed and most will not. At this point my hot favorite ones I would like to learn more about are grid.is, rows.com and equals.com. But I am sure there are tons I don't know
I get your point, but at least they don't expect me to pay them money for the privilege of finding out what they actually do (assuming we're talking open source ones).
Rows is free for regular spreadsheet usage (files, cells, formulas)
You pay only if you use lots of Integrations!!
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#44Really cool promo video. I'm not sure what is particularly unique compared to what we now have in tools like Coda and such. Maybe more spreadsheet-focused than the others?
Yes. More spreadsheet focused.
You start with a grid. Grid is flexible and you get cells with literals or cells with formulas.
The new stuff is Integrations, to import and automate data from Saas tools (your API, BigQuery, Ads platforms, Google Analytics, Slack etc).
And Sharing, as every spreadsheet is shareable as a webpage and every table/ chart is embeddable.
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#45I bet in 50 years, I would still be able to open an Excel file I create today. What is the long term data retention plan with rows.com?
That you can import from, and export to, Excel too
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#461GB of spreadsheet storage would be enough for a grand total of 4 spreadsheets for a lot of use cases of some teams at my company.
1Gb per spreadsheet.
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#47I just won't take any spreadsheet app really seriously until someone comes anywhere near the Excel table object (which is queryable with the built-in Power BI!). I do think Google Sheets actually is much more pleasant to use than Excel, especially given the collaboration feature, but once you start getting fancy with Excel Query Pivot Tables anyone who's not an actual full-time developer starts salivating.
You can query Rows with QUERY(), with the new PARSE() that uses JsonPath schema. Pretty powerful.
Beyond that you can use the free Restful API.
What exactly are your needs from Excel Query Pivot Tables? What’s the best of it?
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#49Impressive domain. How much did that cost? Would it be too cynical of me to ask if I'll be seeing advertisements for Rows.com on every subway platform from London to New York?
$110k USD. We won’t do subway ads.. not in the next years at least. https://rows.com/blog/post/why-and-how-we-rebranded
I usually try to refrain from posting negative comments, but start of that product video was a bit annoying to watch. Are you trying to showcase your product or to make an animation fitting a cool song you just found?
(Maybe it is intentional, it made me post this comment after all :).
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#50I'm sorry but you have to improve on the very first example that you are using to showcase your stuff. What is a graph supposed to tell me where the X axis goes from pages per session to avg time per page? Why are there continuous lines connecting quantities that somehow seem to change units?! Unconvincing.
I am Alberto and I work in the Growth team at Rows. Right, that chart does make little sense, we're going to update it
Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated.