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Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP)

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Re: Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP)

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Post by benofsky »

t0 wrote: post #2

What is it? Your site gives almost no indication. Are we talking comma separated files?

I'm often asked to generate CSVs of our user base for various non-technical colleagues. They might use these CSVs to do analyses in Excel or import users into a service (like Mailchimp).

This is an attempt at taking me out of that process, and automating it.

Re: Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP)

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Post by benofsky »

dcraw wrote: post #5

Your javascript snippet seems to point to http://easycsv.dev/ . I'm guessing you'll want to replace that. I was also confused about what CSVs I was supposed to create. It's not clear that you're generating CSVs of user data.

Eek! Fixed.

Thanks for the feedback — we'll see if we can make that clearer.

Re: Show HN: EasyCSV, stop generating CSVs for non-tech colleagues (an MVP)

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Post by benofsky »

mvkel wrote: post #9

You really need to do a better job explaining this. I know how CSVs work, but I don't know this could help me. What is "your users" in this context?

Yup. We're working on making this clearer right now.

"Your users" is _your_ users. You add a Javascript snippet to your app which sends us up-to-date information about your users (as they move around your app) — we record that data and allow you (or a colleague) to download a CSV of the data at any time.

Does that make sense?

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