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http://spreadsheets-on-steroids.tumblr.com/post/82903500034/my-failed-application-to-yc-summer-2014
BTW, here is also somewhat relevant discussion about crazy/clever ways of using spreadsheets – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363824
Did you not have a co-founder? That appears to make quite a difference.
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience. I think when proposing anything, it helps to be able to clearly express your idea in such a way that anyone including non-technical people like myself can understand and relate to. I think this aspect could be improved. Other things: (1) I don't have a strong idea what pain point you are addressing. You mention features extensively, but could say more about the problem you are…
(1) There are 2 main pain points: 1) for programmers it is building and debugging systems in non-interactive way; 2) for non-programmers is building contraptions using Excel and bubble gum – see some discussion on that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363824
(2) Potential market size is around 20 million exiting software developers, based on e.g. this post http://www.quora.com/Ruby-on-Rails-Professionals/Where-can-I... Around 0.05% of that market needs to be captured to have reasonable ROI I guess.
(3) Agree with you. BTW, may you detail what is your background?
Hi, thanks for sharing your experience. I think when proposing anything, it helps to be able to clearly express your idea in such a way that anyone including non-technical people like myself can understand and relate to. I think this aspect could be improved. Other things: (1) I don't have a strong idea what pain point you are addressing. You mention features extensively, but could say more about the problem you are…
Got your point about being less technical. Also I agree that project is currently more about research than building actual product. (1) There are 2 main pain points: 1) for programmers it is building and debugging systems in non-interactive way; 2) for non-programmers is building contraptions using Excel and bubble gum – see some discussion on that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363824 (2) Potential marke…
Either your project should be open source or it should be aimed at non-programmers like finance or accounting people.
I think the best plan might be to create an open source tool first and then, when the product start to be good enough, sell special packages around it for finance/accounting.
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Got your point about being less technical. Also I agree that project is currently more about research than building actual product. (1) There are 2 main pain points: 1) for programmers it is building and debugging systems in non-interactive way; 2) for non-programmers is building contraptions using Excel and bubble gum – see some discussion on that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363824 (2) Potential marke…
About (2) I think programmers don't buy development tools any more. They use open source or maybe free tools. Only Microsoft might still be able to have people pay for Visual Studio (but that's because they own Windows). Either your project should be open source or it should be aimed at non-programmers like finance or accounting people. I think the best plan might be to create an open source tool first and then, when…
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Got your point about being less technical. Also I agree that project is currently more about research than building actual product. (1) There are 2 main pain points: 1) for programmers it is building and debugging systems in non-interactive way; 2) for non-programmers is building contraptions using Excel and bubble gum – see some discussion on that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363824 (2) Potential marke…
About (2) I think programmers don't buy development tools any more. They use open source or maybe free tools. Only Microsoft might still be able to have people pay for Visual Studio (but that's because they own Windows). Either your project should be open source or it should be aimed at non-programmers like finance or accounting people. I think the best plan might be to create an open source tool first and then, when…
While software developers don't usually buy platform stuff like compilers, libraries etc – they are usually more than willing to buy products that make things simple. Otherwise companies like GitHub or (my own product – Hosted CI) won't get any revenue.
I guess its similar to fivetran? ( https://www.fivetran.com/ )
I want to take direct manipulation of data present in spreadsheets and make it more universal. Something more similar to ideas expressed by Chris Granger – http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/03/27/toward-a-better-prog...