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Re:Show HN: A Better Excel Data API by zwieback on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @01:59PM (#7219569)
Is this basically a simpler way to do "Data|From Web" or "Data|From Other Sources" where the burden is on the developer instead of the user?
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Re:Show HN: A Better Excel Data API by karamazov on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:03PM (#7219591)
Yes, that's one way to look at it. In practice most people send CSV's now, so it's a simpler, streamlined way to do that.

A big advantage of Voyager over both of those options is the ability to send custom data per-user without building an ad-hoc web UI for it.

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Re:Show HN: A Better Excel Data API by zwieback on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:07PM (#7219625)
Right, per-user is a very useful feature. Given that 99% of the world's real work is done in Excel I think this could be a good product.
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