What are your thoughts on the following:
Flex.io zapier.com Blockspring Zoho Creator Domo
If you build this platform I think you have to start application first and not try to theorize it.
In a way, what I want to do is to make apps using spreadsheets as the requirements for the app.
What do you mean by 'start application first and not try to theorize it'? Isn't that I don't agree but I didn't understand it well and it looks like somenthing interesting to take into account.
For example, I see from your submission history that your are probably a biochemist [1] and also that you know what is a regular expression [2] so I guess that you know how to program to some degree, and that if you wanted you probably could make your own crud app.
The majority of people that I imagine using my product dont't know nor want to know how to program, let alone what a regular expression is.
BTW, im still interested on what you meant by 'start application first and not try to theorize it' :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863718 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11024116
So when you say "convert a spreadsheet into a web app", it means many things to many people. Which is a real expectation management challenge!
In this case we are going to make it "cloud based" so there's no need to deploy anything. About the different kind of spreadsheet uses, the more use cases that we can found the better, also we are going to start with the more simple cases to reach a functioning product and then expand to the most complex ones.
This looks like real competition, what is good to validate that a market exists.
Thanks for the tip! I would look into them with more detail tonight