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Re:Show HN: Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powere... by NateLawson on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @02:40PM (#9727908)
Have you thought of doing a spreadsheet-powered UI for desktop or internal web applications?

I know of one crazy guy who replaced an entire IT department back in 2000 that was dedicated to tweaking Java UIs. He built his own spreadsheet-powered UI builder and then had the business people add their own buttons/formulas. This worked especially well because it was a financial business.

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Re:Show HN: Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powere... by eob on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @03:19PM (#9728159)
Absolutely -- there's a whole interesting world of inside-the-firewall applications of this. Enterprise-style programming certainly has an important role to play, but we're pretty bullish on the role that lighter-weight solutions can provide as a compliment.
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Re:Show HN: Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powere... by Immortalin on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @01:45AM (#9730233)
Isn't that VBA?
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