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I have been reading HN for more than 3 years. It is like an addiction. I have never felt smart enough to comment something but honestly, this is the worst piece of literature I have ever read. The writer is just rambling on irrelevant stuff while trying to be smart and promote himself and his company. It's not even good marketing.
I agree with this in premise, and had a very similar idea with a friend earlier this year - that many of the business apps out there are really just CRUD apps. The main piece of feedback that we got when pitching this idea was that you're going to end up as a master-of-none. Yes, we could give you the tools to set up Customer, Ticket, etc. objects. But in order to win over Zendesk, you're going to need all of the fea…
> The main piece of feedback that we got when pitching this idea was that you're going to end up as a master-of-none Interesting. I'm working on a product based on a similar premise, for end-users, but focused on financial services. I'm curious, did you try pitching to customers, or just investors?
I think narrowing down to a specific industry like you're doing helps the problem immensely. A true schema builder is a hard sell to both non-technical users (when point solutions offer more with WAY less setup) and technical users (see how tech people view Salesforce, for example). However, Quickbase and Airtable are doing it currently. Very interested to see how Airtable matures.
I have been reading HN for more than 3 years. It is like an addiction. I have never felt smart enough to comment something but honestly, this is the worst piece of literature I have ever read. The writer is just rambling on irrelevant stuff while trying to be smart and promote himself and his company. It's not even good marketing.
I have been reading HN for more than 3 years. It is like an addiction. I have never felt smart enough to comment something but honestly, this is the worst piece of literature I have ever read. The writer is just rambling on irrelevant stuff while trying to be smart and promote himself and his company. It's not even good marketing.
The first line says it is a transcript from a talk, so you shouldn't expect literature.
I have been reading HN for more than 3 years. It is like an addiction. I have never felt smart enough to comment something but honestly, this is the worst piece of literature I have ever read. The writer is just rambling on irrelevant stuff while trying to be smart and promote himself and his company. It's not even good marketing.
"The world needs a better spreadsheet" I read this when I was a teen (as that's long ago). It was at a time Lotus was going to launch Improv in 1993! Improv was the attempt made by a very smart team at Lotus to reconquer the crowd that went to Excel. But as you can guess, the great product never found its market (or never grew beyond a niche) and was killed a few years later. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_I…
[1] https://www.quantrix.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software
A fucking chatbox? I already hate your company.
A fucking chatbox from the author of a blog? I hate you and everything you stand for. You are what's wrong with the internet. You should know better, and you do. But you do this anyway. Just stop.
I agree, I automate generation of hundreds of spreadsheets a day. I would like to see more scripting/automation features on email.
OP. I was actually thinking something similar. Do you mean the ability to send out emails with app data rather than code and orchestrate them yourself?