<story><title>Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16497444/coda-spreadsheet-krypton-shishir-mehrotra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conceptoriented</author><text>&amp;gt; Coda is a next-generation spreadsheet designed to make Excel a thing of the past&lt;p&gt;There are many projects aimed at making Excel &amp;quot;a thing of the past&amp;quot; but they focus on different needs:&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airtable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airtable.com&lt;/a&gt; - use tables for data organization (organize anything)&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fieldbook.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fieldbook.com&lt;/a&gt; - spreadsheet as a database&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rowshare.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rowshare.com&lt;/a&gt; share data (share rows, not data)&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conceptoriented.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conceptoriented.com&lt;/a&gt; - data transformations and data wrangling (I am the author)&lt;p&gt;o Coda - integration with documents&lt;p&gt;It is interesting if one of these approaches will eventually dominate or we will have a zoo of spreadsheet-like applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanmarsh</author><text>&lt;i&gt;There are many projects aimed at making Excel &amp;quot;a thing of the past&amp;quot; but they focus on different needs:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think this is why Excel&amp;#x2F;Google Sheets still dominate and will continue to.&lt;p&gt;All of these products do one or a few things things that Excel or Google Sheet do, but perhaps they make it little easier for a novice. I think what people don&amp;#x27;t understand about Excel (and to a lesser extent Google Sheets) is that it&amp;#x27;s an IDE. A novice can build interesting things, a power user can build incredible things.&lt;p&gt;The only way to make Excel a thing of the past would be to make a blow-away awesome replacement that does everything excel does but better. There&amp;#x27;s plenty of blue ocean around Excel and I think each of the products you listed could do just fine.&lt;p&gt;I would love all of Excel&amp;#x27;s power available to me but delivered like Google Sheets. That would definitely kill Excel. So far neither Microsoft nor Google seem really committed to this. Google Sheets is nice but just grabs the low hanging spreadsheet fruit. Office 365 is anemic.&lt;p&gt;If I had the time and funding I&amp;#x27;d love to make a true Excel killer that was a faithful recreation of ALL of Excel&amp;#x27;s capabilities but delivered in a modern way. I&amp;#x27;d pay good money for this. I believe many would. Excel may be a dinosaur, but it&amp;#x27;s still the apex predator.</text></comment>
<story><title>Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16497444/coda-spreadsheet-krypton-shishir-mehrotra</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conceptoriented</author><text>&amp;gt; Coda is a next-generation spreadsheet designed to make Excel a thing of the past&lt;p&gt;There are many projects aimed at making Excel &amp;quot;a thing of the past&amp;quot; but they focus on different needs:&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airtable.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;airtable.com&lt;/a&gt; - use tables for data organization (organize anything)&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fieldbook.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fieldbook.com&lt;/a&gt; - spreadsheet as a database&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rowshare.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.rowshare.com&lt;/a&gt; share data (share rows, not data)&lt;p&gt;o &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conceptoriented.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;conceptoriented.com&lt;/a&gt; - data transformations and data wrangling (I am the author)&lt;p&gt;o Coda - integration with documents&lt;p&gt;It is interesting if one of these approaches will eventually dominate or we will have a zoo of spreadsheet-like applications.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Glench</author><text>To throw my hat in the ring, I&amp;#x27;m developing a prototype environment for data transformations I&amp;#x27;m calling Flowsheets: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=y1Ca5czOY7Q&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although my goal is to use it to understand how we can write software better.</text></comment>