Re:Representing and Editing JSON with Spreadsheets (2018)
by DonHopkins on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:08AM
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I've meant to contribute to this discussion and answer questions, but this article is more than a year old, and I've been it regularly and made lots of progress since then, I feel I should writing a fresh new article about it, including some actual documentation and examples.
I'll post it to HN as soon as I'm done, and put a link to it here. And I would appreciate hearing from anyone who's interested in or working on similar ideas, so we can collaborate to combine our forces! (Email in profile.)
It also needs a good name! (As a rule of thumb, I try not to get bogged down in naming things when I should be spending my time actually working on them and using them, to figure out what they actually are before naming them. But it's been more than a year and now I want to talk about it more mellifluously.)
I was calling it "JSONster", but that sounded too monstrous, don't describe it, and nobody gets the Napster reference these days.
So I tried to think of better name by repeatedly pounded my fist against my forehead, which gave me a headache, when suddenly a homeopathic solution to my naming problem sprang to mind: "SpreadON", short for "Spreadsheet Object Notation".
Elevator Pitch:
SpreadON applies JSON to spreadsheets like butter to waffles, so it melts into the nooks and crannies.
Marketing Ploy:
SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet. SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet. SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet.
>HeadOn is the brand name of a topical product claimed to relieve headaches. It achieved widespread notoriety in 2006 as a result of a repetitive commercial, consisting only of the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession. Originally sold as a homeopathic preparation, the brand was transferred in 2008 to Sirvision, Inc., who re-introduced the product with a new formulation.
>HeadOn's notoriety came in part because of its advertisements on cable and daytime programming on broadcast television which consisted of using only the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession, accompanied by a video of a model using the product without ever directly stating the product's purpose.
I'll post it to HN as soon as I'm done, and put a link to it here. And I would appreciate hearing from anyone who's interested in or working on similar ideas, so we can collaborate to combine our forces! (Email in profile.)
It also needs a good name! (As a rule of thumb, I try not to get bogged down in naming things when I should be spending my time actually working on them and using them, to figure out what they actually are before naming them. But it's been more than a year and now I want to talk about it more mellifluously.)
I was calling it "JSONster", but that sounded too monstrous, don't describe it, and nobody gets the Napster reference these days.
So I tried to think of better name by repeatedly pounded my fist against my forehead, which gave me a headache, when suddenly a homeopathic solution to my naming problem sprang to mind: "SpreadON", short for "Spreadsheet Object Notation".
Elevator Pitch:
SpreadON applies JSON to spreadsheets like butter to waffles, so it melts into the nooks and crannies.
Marketing Ploy:
SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet. SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet. SpreadON: Apply directly to the spreadsheet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn
>HeadOn is the brand name of a topical product claimed to relieve headaches. It achieved widespread notoriety in 2006 as a result of a repetitive commercial, consisting only of the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession. Originally sold as a homeopathic preparation, the brand was transferred in 2008 to Sirvision, Inc., who re-introduced the product with a new formulation.
>HeadOn's notoriety came in part because of its advertisements on cable and daytime programming on broadcast television which consisted of using only the tagline "HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead", stated three times in succession, accompanied by a video of a model using the product without ever directly stating the product's purpose.