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Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by otikik »

nhatcher wrote: post #7
llamaLord wrote: post #3

At 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

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

But programming languages and frameworks do compare themselves with others, regularly and in many different ways.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by jmathai »

swyx wrote: post #8
jmathai wrote: post #6

We moved from Google Sheets to use a "fancy spreadsheet" product and the missing table stakes were a lot more painful than the benefits of the fancy features. Turns out Google Sheets has solved a lot of corner cases that we took for granted.

dont stop there, can you remember some examples?

Navigating using the keyboard, drag/drop for reordering rows/columns (in a way that wasn't painful), conditional formatting on ranges of cells.

At the end of the day, we actually didn't want or need the rigid structure we thought we did .... or at least it wasn't worth giving up the polish of Sheets.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by wharfjumper »

swyx wrote: post #9
nickpeterson wrote: post #4

You guys are completely hosed I’m afraid, tomorrow I’m unveiling my competing project ‘columns 3.0’. We would have beat you to market but we’re big fans of late materialization.

here we go again, OLAP vs OLTP debates as far as the eye can see

Rows by any other name is still rows.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by wharfjumper »

nhatcher wrote: post #7
llamaLord wrote: post #3

At 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

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

Keyword bids on rows + grid, equals monday just went crazy.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

Anybody know of a decent process embeddable spreadsheet engine, not web embedded in website embedding, but linked in process.

Ideally C++. I ended up taking sc-im codebase and wrestling with it to embed it in a system. Old school I know but it works.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by quacked »

I 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.

Re: Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

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Post by roseway4 »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #16

Anybody know of a decent process embeddable spreadsheet engine, not web embedded in website embedding, but linked in process. Ideally C++. I ended up taking sc-im codebase and wrestling with it to embed it in a system. Old school I know but it works.

Python’s pandas. Or Apache Arrow (more data structure, but with some calc capabilities). Granted, they’re not spreadsheets per se. Rather, they’re dataframe-centric programming.
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