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Hmmm. Excel has supported SQL queries against itself for at least 20 years. This includes select, insert, update, delete
Via MS Query? ADO? OLAP cubes? Care to elaborate for the newbs?
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Looks like this attempt is the winner!
Quick suggestion: If at any point you are looking to offer varying price points based on features, one possibility is to have three versions - Business (for people who know and work mostly on Excel every day), Developer (C#, LINQ etc.) , Complete (All features).
Because having worked with many people who work with Excel for whole day, at least 90% of the users will not understand or use this: "Additionally, imagine how much easier it would be to build prototypes and small applications if instead of VBA you could use C# (and LINQ) in Excel. You could write business logic in C#, load data from all sorts of APIs."
Not to say this will not be useful. This will be extremely useful for me (a developer). Just a thought.
Good luck with QueryStorm.
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Having built some very cool things that in the end nobody bought, I strongly disagree that one should just build the thing and then try to sell it. I also disagree that these two approaches lead to evolution vs revolution. Even if you have a revolutionary idea, and even if you can build it, it's still a waste of time if nobody will buy it. No matter how revolutionary your idea, you can try marketing it. If you are ev…
So I entirely believed this advice, completely and absolutely. And then I started my current project. I'm working on a thing now which no one believes is possible in the AI space (and to be honest I didn't either). So I built a tech demo which proved to myself that it really does work. Now I do the "I'm doing XXXX", get the cynical "yeah right" look, but the idea is interesting enough that people are prepared to see…
From what you say, you did some technical exploration (which again, I'm all for). Then you didn't make a full product, ujust a 30-second demo. Next you went and tested the "people want this" hypothesis. That sounds very much in line with Lean Startup advice.
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I don't think Microsoft would be able to produce something that was just ready, without having to create a project or click through a wizard first. Much of this functionality is available already, through ODBC, powershell, c# - but it's cumbersome to use. That's the selling point of this software, it seems to me.
You guys, Microsoft just acquires the already built project and our happy dev get his mansion.
I hope Microsoft gives you a ton of money and hires you to make Excel like this. VBA is so crap. And this looks amazing.
Yea, reading his description of the Excel data problems his girlfriend had hit very close to home. A large swath of my current job responsibilities often involve automating these type of data aggregations so that non-technical users can do them. Often, this leads me to coding the entire task in VBA so that they can do it with the push of a button within the workbook they are using. At this point I have entire librari…
Where are the other professional developer tools with subscription pricing? Not stuff company stuff like Atlasssian or web-SaaS, but, say, a really good local `git` GUI and merge tool.
lmao, I really appreciate the story telling here. Nearly started laughing at my desk when you switched to "ex-girlfriend" after the ultimatum.
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Looks like this attempt is the winner!
Absolutely!:) I didn't expect this at all. I had to write 5 articles as part of my last milestone for HugeThing (accelerator) and share them somewhere. I wrote four technical ones in a day and a half. I then struggled with this one for three days. Had no idea where I'd share it or if I was going to use it at all. Finished it up this morning, and figured what the heck, I'll post it on HN. Probably no one's going to re…