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agumonkey • yesterday at 7:20 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

By the time it takes to make a custom filtered table non extensible UI for an api, the excel guy is finished three times over


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sokoloff • yesterday at 11:07 AM

I can’t count the number of demos I’ve seen that were “small team, multiple sprints” to produce something that could have been done in a lazy afternoon in excel by a single person.

chasd00 • yesterday at 6:30 PM

It’s a common pattern in enterprise IT to take a useful spreadsheet and turn it into an application. Without fail, they turn into a forever chase of excel features re-implemented (and poorly) on some front end. Entire teams dedicated to features that would be two clicks away in excel ootb.

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