INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today
job and organising their information, in part to keep them from simply dumping lots of information into Excel or whatever program they
And yet, spreadsheets are still one of the very, very most common pieces of software in use today to organise and share information: Excel
like spreadsheets in the front end, while doing something completely different in the back.One of the latest is a startup called dashdash, a
startup out of Berlin and Porto that is building a platform for people, who might to be programmers but know their way around a spreadsheet,
to use those skills to build, modify and update web apps.The dashdash platform looks and acts like a spreadsheet up front, but behind the
spreadsheet, bypassing all the lines of code that traditionally go into building web apps.The startup is still in stealth mode, with plans
to launch formally later this year
technical staff, there will be proficiency with certain software, including spreadsheets
having no solution for working on apps, we saw an opportunity to use this to build an elegant platform the empower people
interesting to me that this problem even exists at large tech businesses.)Dashdash is not the only company that is tapping this opportunity
The other week, and IoT startup called Hanhaa launched a service that would let those using Hanhaa IoT sensors in their networks to monitor
devices in the network might not be the people who are the engineers and technicians who have set them up.That, in turn, is part of a bigger
effort from Microsoft to catapult Excel from its reputation as a piece of clunky legacy software into something much more dynamic, playing
variety of sources such as websites, stock tickers and hardware directly into a cell or cells in an Excel spreadsheet, by way of a custom
TechCrunch.That ability to remove the bottleneck from web app building, combined with the track record of the founders, are two of the
with development skills to leverage these in their day-to-day processes
With dashdash anyone will be able to access these powerful web services directly with minimal effort, empowering them to automate their day
their code, lest it just creates more problems
overall UI and UX confusion.Ayres Pereira said dash dash is mindful of the design question, and will introduce ways of helping to direct
this, for example for companies to implement their own house styles
