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zoomastigophoreon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

I subscribed last december after knowing about it in last year's version of this thread. It is great and gives a very good summary of the HN week, I love it!

zoomastigophoreon Why our website looks like an operating system

Where is Doom?

zoomastigophoreon The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

I agree data is hard.

If we could provide a properly designed database which has already defined datatypes but that would be as easy to fill for a standard user as a preformated Excel table that would be great. You're right, Access has this simplicity, I just wish such tools would be available out-of-the-box for other DB engine.

zoomastigophoreon The Tyranny of Spreadsheets

I think one of the main problem with databases is how do you populate them.

I wish there were simple-as-Excel frontends for databases where a normal user could input his data like in preformated Excel table without having to deal with the database mechanics.