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I wandered off and built an IDE

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Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by dotmanish »

anakic wrote: post #4
nolok wrote: post #2

I have to say, without even looking at the actual product, seeing it use the FooStorm naming from jetbrains while being a paid product isn't inspiring much confidence.

Yeah, I do get that comment every now and then. It was originally called ThingieQuery, but then I got people saying that they liked it but couldn't ask a manager to buy something called ThingieQuery. I didn't consciously steal the JetBrains naming, but the first time someone pointed it out my reaction was d'oh...

You're good with the name. Don't overthink it now - it sounds business-y alright. If parent's logic were to prevail, no company name would end in 'soft' (since Microsoft) either. Doesn't hold.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by astro_robot »

e1g wrote: post #102
corry wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, technical people latently believe the thing that people buy from you is a product. So if the product isn't done / ready / etc, then you are being misleading trying to "sell" them or engage with them. It feels wrong, like you're forced to misrepresent yourself. You imagine the potential buyer as a hyper-critical power-user that will expect everything to be perfect. But what if the above isn't true at…

This shift in perspective has been critical for me. Similarly, it is critical to ask “Whose problem am I solving?” I am an engineer and tinkering with tech brings me pleasure from creating, I crave mental stimulation, and I get immense satisfaction from havingright things in right places”. Polishing the code is like polishing the car engine for a petrolhead. But those are my problems and triggers. I am feeding _my_ n…

That really is some great insight into entrepreneurship. I have that same problem of wanting everything to be perfect before showing it to anyone.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by shimon »

FYI, Google Sheets has limited SQL support via their =QUERY() function:

https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en

This has come in handy for me recently, but it's painful to try and edit even a simple SQL query in the cell edit field. However, it's super convenient to have this capability built into the spreadsheet.

Marketing idea for QueryStorm: guides that apply your tool for specific data analysis/workflow challenges. You might benefit from looking for the popular guides for Google Sheets that rely heavily on QUERY(). Then you can translate those for Excel/QueryStorm and suddenly you've got answers for "How to do XYZ in Excel" that promote your tool.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by character0 »

anakic wrote: post #11
nolok wrote: post #2

I have to say, without even looking at the actual product, seeing it use the FooStorm naming from jetbrains while being a paid product isn't inspiring much confidence.

Oh, also it's freemium. Most of the functionality is free, you just have a label saying it's "free for non-commercial use"

Having a page that describes the freemium vs pro features would be great. Maybe a simple table with checkboxes

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by the-dude »

fastball wrote: post #117
the-dude wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See the Dropbox HN argument. Polish.

Oh god. I was so confused by your comment because this guy is on a Polish accelerator and I was trying to figure out how that was relevant.

I noticed directly after posting, decided to keep it.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by jason_slack »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #143
jason_slack wrote: post #42

“You might be surprised to learn that in a developer’s life, there aren’t all that many chances to impress girls with your coding skills.” Ha ha. When my wife and I were new she asked to use my laptop and was surprised that it “had no icons”. (No window system). So I started to show her how to avoid using a GUI. 12 years later she uses a terminal about half of her time as a stock administrator.

Textbased internet surfing must be awesome.

You would be quite surprised actually. Try it and see how often you decide to use it over a graphical browser.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

fomoz wrote: post #142

Cool IDE, cool project. At the same time, it can all be done in Power Pivot and Power Query as long as you know how to use them.

You can use C# and SQL in Power Pivot and Power Query? I couldn't figure out how to do so based on a cursory web search.

More generally, you can do all of this same 'stuff' in any language. This seems like a possibly better way to do the same things tho.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by RussianCow »

shimon wrote: post #153

FYI, Google Sheets has limited SQL support via their =QUERY() function: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093343?hl=en This has come in handy for me recently, but it's painful to try and edit even a simple SQL query in the cell edit field. However, it's super convenient to have this capability built into the spreadsheet. Marketing idea for QueryStorm: guides that apply your tool for specific data analysis/workf…

This is a fantastic idea. Several years ago I worked for a startup that sold a series of very niche services, and this technique produced probably about 80% of our web traffic.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by aeorgnoieang »

mrleiter wrote: post #43

In regards to your non-existent pricing page, I would suggest this read: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/saas-pricing :) I think you could capture more B2B value if you display some amount of pricing for potential business customers and also make it more clear for non-commercial users that it is free. Besides from that, product looks really nice!

I wouldn't guess that this was thrown-up since you made your comment:

- https://www.querystorm.com/buy.html

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