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Re:Look for the duct tape by TuringTest on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:31PM (#16667718)
> Spreadsheets simply don't scale

This means that if your computing problem doesn't need to scale, a spreadsheet may just be the perfect tool.

However, I agree with you. The next Facebook might be of whomever builds a spreadsheet that scales.

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Re:Look for the duct tape by retreatguru on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:33PM (#16668059)
Check our Air Table. https://airtable.com. I’ve not used it in production yet but it looks like a good excel replacement for database type info. The UI is very slick.

I tried smartsheets but it’s more calc centric. Asana is great if you are task centric.

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Re:Look for the duct tape by Piskvorrr on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:01AM (#16686573)
It never needs to scale - until one day you find out that it has overgrown this stage many months ago.
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