Keikai
Dev tools
spreadsheet to web app
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
11 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 25 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Idea: 9 for, 19 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for rapid internal BI and business tooling without web developers
From 2 comments
I haven't tried this yet, but if it works well, the implications towards rapid Business Intelligence development are great. In the past, when a user has needed some 15-year-old,…
z3c0 on HNA simple solution to an easy problem, and you saved someone time. Good job!
abrkn on HN
Objections
Spreadsheets are a poor fit for web apps and nested data
From 3 comments
Excel is fine until you have to work with nested data structure/relationship.
revskill on HNStop encouraging people to use Excel for tasks where it is a poor fit. I have wasted so many hours of my life because of Excel and people using it for non-spreadsheet purposes.
collyw on HNOr don't please, I think it's a terrible idea to abuse spreadsheets like this. I'm being forced by my manager to do this for a client due to a close deadline (the idea is to…
pietrovismara on HN
Demo breaks at zoom levels other than 100%
From 3 comments
This does not work for me on chrome 74. https://keikai.io/demo/editor
zarker on HNThere is a known issue that the current beta version works with only 100% zoom level. Please check your browser and OS display zoom level and make it 100% to try it out before…
visionPASSION on HNYour demos break or don't even load if page zoom level is set above or below 100% in Firefox btw.
tekni5 on HN
Google Sheets or Excel automation already solve this
From 3 comments
Wait, isn't this particular problem solved with something like Google Sheets? Other than privacy issues of course.
mettamage on HNIt's worth noting that the described flow could've been fully automated from within the Excel itself, with just a few macros and formulas. I've created a spreadsheet doing very…
ivanhoe on HNYou can do some of these tricks with Excel 2016 or later and SharePoint Enterprise or Office 365 -- which many corporations already have. You can embed an auto-updating Excel…
danny8000 on HN
Requests
Support for charts
From 1 comment
Does it support charts?
velcrovan on HN
Questions
Whether the macros and formulas live inside the Excel file or externally
From 1 comment
I didn't get if some of the code shown on the page is written as macros in the Excel file itself or are all of them external. Some of it like the cell protection stuff seemed…
hiccuphippo on HN
Alternatives named
Google Sheets
From 3 comments
Wait, isn't this particular problem solved with something like Google Sheets? Other than privacy issues of course.
mettamage on HNFor this tasks, I like to use Google Sheets, runs in the cloud, have a good mobile app and runs in any device.
viana007 on HNI’ve built http://upstart.me entirely on Google Sheets. Haven’t had any issues and works really well. This allows me to collect data from newsletter through a Google Form - which…
krm01 on HN
WeMaik
From 1 comment
There is a solution developed in France, WeMaik [0]that is very similar. We've used their solution in the consulting firm I'm a part of. The clients are very satisfied, because…
vianneychevalie on HN
Sheet2Site
From 1 comment
Nice! Spreadsheets have a lot of advantages over coding your own website, especially for people that don’t have the skills. I made an app called https://Sheet2Site.com which…
andreyazimov on HN