Ask YC: Review our new product
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Ask YC: Review our new product
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Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#2No one is going to watch your tutorial video if you tell no one what's about your website first.
Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#3This is largely a technology demo, but we think it's pretty neat. Curious if anyone here has thoughts about where to take this from here. And yes, using SSN as the example was probably a poor choice - the example is from http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/11/12/manipulating-... .
Tip of the hat to LAPIS/Potluck/MassEdit from CSAIL for getting us thinking in this direction.
Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#4Looks awesome to me. I'll bookmark it and come back if I have need for it. Thanks!
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#5Really cool. I've been waiting for an easy to use spreadsheet app that would let me do this for a while without having to figure out formulas or vbscript. This looks useful and I'll definitely use it as needed in the future.
What's your business model for this? Are you just doing advertising or are you also offering a rush fee or maybe charging extra for files over 5MB or something?
Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#6I like it.
Suggestion for getting more helpful feedback -- the first post on this thread should have been this:
My name is Avi Bryant and I'm the chief bottle washer at X. We are going to release a product which performs automatic transformations on data, with an easy-to-use interface based on building examples.
For example, let's say you have a data entry team which has painstakingly transcribed 100,000 customer entries over the years. Their phone number field is an absolute mess -- some customers write 4567890, some write 123 456 7890, some write (123) 456-7890, etc. You want this to be consistent. You could either hire a DBA to do some database/regexp wizardry for you, or you could just write a single example of the proper canonical phone number and our software will just work.
For an example, try playing directly with this test data: http://www.example.com/i-go-to-test-data-not-a-video
We would particularly appreciate feedback about ease of use and ...
Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#7I think it's a very handy application, and nice presentation.
Just curious though, why does it have to be a web app? Why not just a plugin to my favorite spreadsheet application, or just a small standalone app that I can use on my PC..
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#8This is pretty cool.
The amount of data will nearly always be tiny so you ought to just process and display it interactively unless the dataset is huge. And speaking of interactivity, it really needs an 'undo'.
I'd like to read a blog post about the details of how you did it.
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#9I like it. Suggestion for getting more helpful feedback -- the first post on this thread should have been this: My name is Avi Bryant and I'm the chief bottle washer at X. We are going to release a product which performs automatic transformations on data, with an easy-to-use interface based on building examples. For example, let's say you have a data entry team which has painstakingly transcribed 100,000 customer ent…
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Re: Ask YC: Review our new product
#10This is largely a technology demo, but we think it's pretty neat. Curious if anyone here has thoughts about where to take this from here. And yes, using SSN as the example was probably a poor choice - the example is from http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2007/11/12/manipulating-... . Tip of the hat to LAPIS/Potluck/MassEdit from CSAIL for getting us thinking in this direction.
An undo button would be neat in case I accidentally type-in rather than cut-paste, then end up losing what I manually deleted. (I didn't read the instructions, as you can tell!)