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Ask HN: What was it like for programmers when spreadsheets became ubiquitous?

Posted by yodaiken on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

There have been a lot of attempts to move more of programming to end-users instead of professional developer over the years. Spreadsheets are interesting because they were a massively successful version of this and because of course we are living through the latest wave (AI/vibe coding).For those of you around when spreadsheets were taking off, what was it like? Was there fear that they would...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upo... on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:36AM (#12305466)
I think we did really solid work with Upward's: https://upwardhq.con
Re:Ask HN: What have you been working on this summer? on Thursday August 28, 2014 @12:48PM (#8238235)
Trying to help high school students learn about all the steps in higher education with a nonprofit -- http://www.realitystep.org. We haven't launched our main product yet but just conversations with students and teachers have made it worth it so far.
Re:A portable high-resolution timestamp in C++ on Saturday June 21, 2014 @12:36AM (#7924208)
This is very possible with high quality software, for example, see http://fsmlabs.com
Re:Show HN: Fight for Net Neutrality with slowlane.js on Thursday May 08, 2014 @10:12AM (#7715346)
Check out the new version!
Re:Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:30PM (#7712473)
Here's v1 of slowlane.js, might be able to help: https://github.com/yodaiken/slowlane/
Re:I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @12:54AM (#6170914)
FYI, I submitted an app (http://memn.io/) to this an hour or so ago and while I don't see it in any publicly available section, I am getting more than a few hits with kickoffboost.com as the referral. Playing around with your URLs showed that you can just increment the number to view any submitted product. You might want to switch to UUIDs or at least add more security.
Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Saturday July 13, 2013 @04:04PM (#6038544)
Is the problem resolved for you?
Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:35PM (#6036579)
We don't change codes in between signup attempts with the same email address, so the original email/code combination should work. If you keep having issues and want to help out, it'd be great if you could an email over to [email protected] with your email and browser/OS.

We'll fix the tab bug, thanks for letting us know.

Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:25PM (#6036563)
Thanks, we'll fix that.
Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:25PM (#6036562)
On http://memn.io/app.html (you won't see the link for some reason if you have Ghostery installed), you should be greeted with a sign up page [1]. If you have already made an account, you can click the "Sign In" link in the top right corner to switch to the Sign In form.

If that's not working, I'd appreciate it if you could email [email protected] with your browser/version/OS.

[1] (http://imgur.com/jQeY60N)

Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:35PM (#6036465)
I'm not sure what you mean by sign in link on the sing in page or sign up being "hidden". Could you elaborate?
Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:29PM (#6036457)
Thanks, I'll try to figure out what's going on.
Re:Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:29PM (#6036455)
While we work on trying to get Ghostery to play nice, you can try out the main app at http://memn.io/app.html

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