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The expectations management you mention is really important, I need to think how to communicate that clearly to customers.

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.

Seems like my google-fu is a little rusty, because I didn't find this kind of companies that I assumed that existed.

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

Thanks for your reply, I didn't know about quant libraries for excel, I`d investigate that.

I've found this quote really inspiring, specially for the startup folks:

"No hay tarea difícil, sino hombres incapaces" - Ernesto "Che" Guevara [1]

That would translate (i think, correct my english if i'm wrong) to: "There is no difficult task, but incapable men"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

Ok, maybe 'Developer' wasn't the best term, what I really meant was that those products are for people that are somewhat technical oriented.

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

From the apps you mention, except for zoho creator, I feel like are all developer oriented (I can be wrong).

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.

I've added a sketch of the user flow here: https://app.moqups.com/santiago.ingold@gmail.com/KCTLq4WnAL/...

The sketch of the user flow for the first prototype can be seen here https://app.moqups.com/santiago.ingold@gmail.com/KCTLq4WnAL/...

Again, comments are welcomed :)

I agree with you that it is a difficult problem to tackle and I've been thinking partly on what you say.

About your first point there are two important things, first that we are going to start with simple spreadsheets and then evolve to more complex ones. And second that we are going to have some user interaction, because there is a lot of information that is in the user's head that we can't infer only from the data.

About the second point, the first "simple" spreadsheets are going to be (probably) without macros, etc. (anyway at the start we can do ThingsThatDontScale(TM)). I think that making a transpiler from excel functions to a programming language shouldn't be that difficult, but the macros are a totally different beast.

Thanks for your reply!

I would like to see what your app is about, but spreadsheet.io returns a 503 error, can I see something about it on another place?

You will probably not be my first client :P but I love a nightmare test case.

I would love to see that spreadsheet (or a part of it with fake or no data obviously), my email is in profile, feel free to contact me.

Maybe I didn't explained myself well or maybe I didn't understand your comment (or both :).

In other words the idea is that you upload a spreadsheet and we make a CRUD-like app for you with the information that you already have in your spreadsheet.

The purpose is not making spreadsheet management better, but make spreadsheets "obsolete" for some kind of uses.

Right now I only have some UI sketches on paper and the idea of the implementation written in a google doc, but I probably can make a digital UI sketch and link to that later

I have some English knowledge as a non native speaker, and dutch was like Chinese for me, until some said something similar to this.

Not that I can speak or write anything but sometimes some isolated words make sense for me because of the English similarity

But AFAIK they can block the whole domain, when you access an https site any proxy or firewall you have can see the domain but nothing more.

For example a firewall would see that you entered Google.com but not what you searched

I work at a non-US bank and we can't have US citizens as clients because of fatca.

We would like to have them as clients but AFAICT fatca compliance would cost us a non trivial amount of money for the few (but relatively wealthy) potential clients

It's kind of customary around HN to end sarcastic comments with /s

I had a game of life based game on an old win95 machine.

I cant remember it exactly but there was a grid and 2 teams with 2 different cell colors. Every turn the game of life rules were applied once to "advance" in time, and in every turn you can add a square of your team and remove a square from the other team

Incognito mode

And it also shows "rolex values your time" oh the irony

Probably to avoid that if i have the singold user,someone takes the Singold user to impersonate me, just my guess

I get a 404 from the page posted there, what was it?

Video of the talk https://m.youtube.com/watch?index=8&list=PLrbAIdPI69Pgvh-iqK...

Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/327/

If the future of interfaces is foing to be text, i think it will be more because minecraft playing children than slack users, just my 2c

OT: In spanish Kajita sounds like Cajita (little box), so there's a joke about this being a PR campaing of McDonalds.

Also Kajita should be happy because of this achievement :P

I am tired of "atheist" scientists, how can you justify scientifically the absence of god?

When you enter the non-falsable territory you can believe what you want, and in parallel do all the science you want.

I agree with the author that you cant break the law because of religious ideas, but also in geneal you dont want to force someone to do something that hoes against his beleifs.

I've used C# but am not on windows anymore, so Visual Studio is not an option right now.

I'm digging the Cordova docs on another tab and it looks promising for my use case.

Thanks for sharing your experience, I was thinking on something on the lines of Cordova et. al. but I will take into account your experience.

I think I get what you say about 'certain types of companies making certain types of apps' right now I have a potential client that needs a pretty basic app that could be done easily in HTML5 and made 'mobile' (for his use a webpage would be fine, but they want it mobile) with Cordova.

Thanks!

Do you have any experience on it? Do you recommend some book or diving in the docs directly?