I only use Google Sheets
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I only use Google Sheets
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Re: I only use Google Sheets
#2And it all started with Visicalc. The spreadsheet and the word processor are the most important computer programs ever created. No wonder Google and Microsoft still make billions from these two.
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#3Reminds me of "Ask HN: Is the world run by badly updated Excel sheets?" [0]
You need experience to see the shorcomings of spreadsheets. No version control. No tests. In general it's good for things that don't need to evolve, but stay the same (most likely because they're short lived).
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33611431
[EDIT] An example of a comment from that thread pointing in this direction:
> In general, you adapt to the excel owner's quirks, not vice versa. If you don't like it you should create an excel sheet of your own and copy/paste, which people also do.
> I knew a project manager who's job seemed to be reconciling multiple versions of a spreadsheet with different authors.
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#4And it all started with Visicalc. The spreadsheet and the word processor are the most important computer programs ever created. No wonder Google and Microsoft still make billions from these two.
I would argue that the compiler is the most important computer program.
Or maybe that it doesn't make that much sense to look for a most important program.
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#5I use Google Sheets for all my finances, it's great.
I have an Expense Tracker UI within Google Sheets that allows me to submit expenses to the main sheet (currently just over 5000 rows of expenses over the last few years)
I only just recently vibe coded a web UI tool that uses a Google Service Account to add expenses to this Google Sheet for me, and then created a Progressive Web App from that so I could do everything on my phone.
In summary, Google Sheets is sometimes all you need instead of a database for very simple applications (and built for an audience of one)
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#62000's: I use Excel for everything
2010's: I use Google Sheets for everything
2020's: I use Etherpad[0] for everything
[0] Or any other alternative for that matter
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#7I haven't used Google sheets for maybe 2 years, didn't have the need, but week ago I needed to send customer a table that will be updated every couple of days. I was surprised how slow it is. Table has 40 lines and 8 columns, static text only, and it takes 12s until I can edit it. For what it is (adding sentence every 3 day) it's ok but if I had to actually use it for myself on a daily basis it would drive me mad.
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#8It’s amazing to me how well Fred Brooks’ insights from 50 years ago hold up (plan to throw one away, in this case).
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#92000's: I use Excel for everything 2010's: I use Google Sheets for everything 2020's: I use Etherpad[0] for everything [0] Or any other alternative for that matter
Real 2020's: I use TikTok/Instagram/YouTube for everything
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#10I haven't used Google sheets for maybe 2 years, didn't have the need, but week ago I needed to send customer a table that will be updated every couple of days. I was surprised how slow it is. Table has 40 lines and 8 columns, static text only, and it takes 12s until I can edit it. For what it is (adding sentence every 3 day) it's ok but if I had to actually use it for myself on a daily basis it would drive me mad.
I use it daily and have never had this problem.