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Congrats on the launch! How do you differentiate yourself from hosted competitors like https://flatfile.io/?

Flatfile is a fantastic service. In fact, I was one of their early users.

1. We are focused on indie developers and startups. Our pricing is reflective of that. 2. csvbox is a no code widget. The entire column model and validation requirements can be defined in the app admin without the need to write a single line of code.

I can say I looked at flat file and I think their pricing is just out of whack for what it does. Just being a cheaper version seems like a good market to me.

P.S. others promote self hosted, but I wouldn't bother if we're you. I did esignatures and lots of people asked for it, so we built it, but no indie/startup dev ever bought it. The only people who only ever truly implemented self hosting were enterprises. My 2 cents.

I'm missing something here, Flatfile does that too?

With flatfile you have to define the data model and the validation criteria in the client side code. Whereas csvbox.io is no-code - you can define the data model and attach validations right inside the app admin with a few clicks.

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