Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age

Re:Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age by iaskwhy on Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:08AM (#4360487)

Wouldn't that be only for power users? I am very good at Excel myself but it's not part of my job to work with it so I'd say most of the time I use Excel as a quick storage for data and not as a calculation sheet. Grid sounds great for almost every case where you would fire up Excel but not actually do any complex calculations. It made me think of this article by Joel Spolsky about Trello (and spreadsheets): http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html

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Re:Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age by v0cab on Thursday August 09, 2012 @09:24AM (#4360855)

Almost everyone who uses a spreadsheet wants to do basic arithmetic in it, though.

Look at the demo video on the site. There's a list of expenses and dollar costs. But you can't automatically sum them? Anyone familiar with spreadsheets would consider that a pretty fundamental feature.

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Re:Grid (YC S12) Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age by iaskwhy on Thursday August 09, 2012 @09:43AM (#4360951)

Sure but we are talking about something not that hard to add to the app. I was talking more about those asking for pivot tables, etc.

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