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Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by kornish »

hobofan wrote: post #8

I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…

Not sure what you mean by "beyond Google Sheets" space, but there have been some cool spreadsheet tools emerging recently.

http://www.alphasheets.com/ is still mostly in stealth (as far as I can tell) but they let you mix and match SQL, Python, R, and Excel formulae in a spreadsheet.

Airtable seems pretty polished (https://airtable.com/).

Both of these are definitely spreadsheets, though. Not sure if you're looking for something more specialized for a certain vertical or problem domain.

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by derefr »

zellyn wrote: post #5

Is this like dabbledb?

Exactly what I was going to compare this to. And I hope it is—DabbleDB was excellent. This looks like it has more interoperation features (Excel synchronization) but maybe doesn't have the auto-guessed column-types + relations that DabbleDB had.

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by overcast »

hobofan wrote: post #8

I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…

So, applicable name then?

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by cominatchu »

hobofan wrote: post #8

I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…

AirTable.com is a really great tool in this space - simple and works well

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by howsta »

kornish wrote: post #11
hobofan wrote: post #8

I would really like to see a good tool in the "beyond Google Sheets"-space. I tried Ragic just now for 10-15 minutes and it is far from simple, like their landing page claims. It is nothing at all like a database and it also is nothing at all like a spreadsheet (and not in a good way). Edit: Looking at previous discussions about it here on HN, the criticism in this 5 year old comment all still holds true: https://new…

Not sure what you mean by "beyond Google Sheets" space, but there have been some cool spreadsheet tools emerging recently. http://www.alphasheets.com/ is still mostly in stealth (as far as I can tell) but they let you mix and match SQL, Python, R, and Excel formulae in a spreadsheet. Airtable seems pretty polished ( https://airtable.com/ ). Both of these are definitely spreadsheets, though. Not sure if you're looking…

Founder of Airtable here--Airtable is actually a relational database with foreign key relationships (the technicalities of which are abstracted away from the user). It's designed specifically to be somewhere between the accessibility of a spreadsheet and the customizability/structure of a Filemaker/Access/Force.com, all with a much more modern UX and collaboration experience. Airtable.com/product or Airtable.com/templates offers some more context!

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by peteretep »

wmccullough wrote: post #10

> "Over 90% of enterprise IT projects are delivered late." Due to piss poor project managers and lack of business requirements and/or realistic deadlines.

Mmm, I've worked (as a developer) with a lot of shitty developers responsible for project death through incompetence.

Re: Ragic – Editable forms with relational data

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Post by howsta »

derefr wrote: post #12
zellyn wrote: post #5

Is this like dabbledb?

Exactly what I was going to compare this to. And I hope it is—DabbleDB was excellent. This looks like it has more interoperation features (Excel synchronization) but maybe doesn't have the auto-guessed column-types + relations that DabbleDB had.

Fwiw Airtable has often been compared with DabbleDB :).

https://mobile.twitter.com/patrickc/status/51568968982347366...

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