Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
1–10 of 42 posts
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#2It seems like this would be most useful for non-developers, but the use cases (I'm assuming that's what 'regic solutions' are), sit obscured at the bottom of the page.
Look at how Twilio markets their paas to non devs.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#3I strongly recommend you offer a demo without needing to sign up. I was intrigued enough to take a look, but not enough to go through a sign up process.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#4DabbleDB again. Don't break my heart.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#5Here's the discussion from the last time he submitted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3959486
Would be interested to hear how the product has evolved since then. Have they incorporated any of the feedback they received the first time around?
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#6I strongly recommend you offer a demo without needing to sign up. I was intrigued enough to take a look, but not enough to go through a sign up process.
We had a sandbox account log in at the registration page, but after some testing we found that it made a lot of people who would have signed up just go to the sandbox instead.
The original page is here: http://www.ragic.com/intl/en/registerSandbox
For people who would like to use the sandbox instead.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#7Here's the discussion from the last time he submitted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3959486 Would be interested to hear how the product has evolved since then. Have they incorporated any of the feedback they received the first time around?
Yes, we've worked on A LOT of items from the last submission.
The biggest problem was that it's not really easy for people to get started on how to build applications with Ragic. People don't like to read documents, so we added an "Interactive Tutorial".
The interactive tutorial takes new users step by step to build a simple application on Ragic, pretty much like how you do it on a flash game or online game. If you click through the tutorial, you will have built a simple Ragic application. We really hope that this can help our users get the hang of it.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#8It seems like this would be most useful for non-developers, but the use cases (I'm assuming that's what 'regic solutions' are), sit obscured at the bottom of the page. Look at how Twilio markets their paas to non devs.
Great suggestion. I think Twilio is a great role model for development tools. We'll try to learn a thing or two from it.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#9Great idea, I have been actually thinking about something like this for a long time.
Great product, but weak marketing. It is targeted for non-technical small businesses, but homepage and everything looks complicated, and makes less sense for these people. There should be a one sentence which clearly explains what the product is meant to do. Customers are more interested in the end result, show them some examples of what they can do with this product. Unfortunately , this looks like a product for developers by developers.
Re: Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
#10Here's the discussion from the last time he submitted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3959486 Would be interested to hear how the product has evolved since then. Have they incorporated any of the feedback they received the first time around?
Yes, we've worked on A LOT of items from the last submission. The biggest problem was that it's not really easy for people to get started on how to build applications with Ragic. People don't like to read documents, so we added an "Interactive Tutorial". The interactive tutorial takes new users step by step to build a simple application on Ragic, pretty much like how you do it on a flash game or online game. If you c…
I love the idea. the interactive guide is horrible. far from simple. Sorry for being blunt.