Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
by apsurd on Thursday February 19, 2026 @06:14PM
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I've always stubbornly bemoaned how everyone seems to love to work in spreadsheets. Undeniably the world's power-tool.
I've never liked them, never learned to work with them, and instead spent 20 years learning to program and make my own db-backed crud interfaces.
Your points are spot on. But I'd like to defend a sliver of my stubbornness about it all; a product built for a specific use or domain exports the _education_ and information architecture of that domain. Sure it's all rows and columns in a db, and a spreadsheet is just that exposed to the user, but a "product" and its creator/company gets to design and prescribe a learning experience. And I think that's the magic and the value. That's what I'm holding onto!
I've never liked them, never learned to work with them, and instead spent 20 years learning to program and make my own db-backed crud interfaces.
Your points are spot on. But I'd like to defend a sliver of my stubbornness about it all; a product built for a specific use or domain exports the _education_ and information architecture of that domain. Sure it's all rows and columns in a db, and a spreadsheet is just that exposed to the user, but a "product" and its creator/company gets to design and prescribe a learning experience. And I think that's the magic and the value. That's what I'm holding onto!