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Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by dboskovic »

Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues.

You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration get 100% valid and structured JSON data instead of messy, weirdly encoded, and difficult to parse CSV and XLS files.

This is my first time posting a Show HN - But don't go easy. I'd love to hear your thoughts / answer any questions! I wrote a blog post yesterday about my experience launching this as a side project the last couple years https://medium.com/flatfile-io/flatfile-io-the-new-standard-...

Also, there's a developer playground + some docs here: https://flatfile.io/developers

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by thedangler »

dboskovic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues. You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration g…

Next step, make it so that the data can be seen on the website with another widget. I work with some do it yourself web building tools and some of them do not support tabular data. This would fit perfectly if it let you show the data as well.

cool product.

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by dboskovic »

thedangler wrote: post #3
dboskovic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues. You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration g…

Next step, make it so that the data can be seen on the website with another widget. I work with some do it yourself web building tools and some of them do not support tabular data. This would fit perfectly if it let you show the data as well. cool product.

Thanks! Yeah, we pitch and expect another system to catch. I would probably think of something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/tableify for converting the output into a table

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by chrismatheson »

dboskovic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues. You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration g…

Awesome product. I’ve had to implement one of these and it’s a real PITA to even do half as well. I’d love to see more drop in components for complex UI/UX problems along these lines.

Well done.

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by dboskovic »

chrismatheson wrote: post #7
dboskovic wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I'm one of the creators of Flatfile. At the core, it's a simple drop-in, browser-based component (React) that focuses on making the process of uploading CSV / XLS files into any web app nearly effortless. Has a column matching and error resolution experience, and a backend dashboard for supporting customers through import issues. You can basically just drop this into your app, and with a little configuration g…

Awesome product. I’ve had to implement one of these and it’s a real PITA to even do half as well. I’d love to see more drop in components for complex UI/UX problems along these lines. Well done.

Thanks man, and I absolutely agree. Hopefully this can help serve as some inspiration for other things!

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by gitgud »

This is a great example of a successful landing page.

I like that there was no cliche "pricing" menu item, which is on every cookie cutter SAAS website and is kind of a turn off.

They instead go through the sales pitch, listing all the features and examples and have the pricing at the end, which I prefer.

Re: Show HN: Flatfile – a drop-in CSV / XLS importer for web apps

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Post by taf2 »

gitgud wrote: post #9

This is a great example of a successful landing page. I like that there was no cliche "pricing" menu item, which is on every cookie cutter SAAS website and is kind of a turn off. They instead go through the sales pitch, listing all the features and examples and have the pricing at the end, which I prefer.

Funny on my mobile phone I scanned for pricing and after not seeing it I bounced assuming it is either too new or not sustainable as a free product... I guess I should have kept scrolling...
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