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In fact, I've gone the opposite way- my work has an internal cafe with a menu website that takes a lot of clicks to see everything.

I originally planned to scrape the data and make my own website with better (imo) controls, but v0 turned into pumping the data into a Google sheet.

I've never needed v1. The Google sheets "UI" solves filtering (i.e., breakfast vs lunch), access control, and basic analytics (~7 other colleagues also use this daily).

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I have a similar experience with providing users with excel files, but would also like to add that in a lot of business, the number 1 competition for a web application is the good old excel file (or its modern cloud version), and it's sometimes a challenge to beat.

Yeah, I've spent 2 years in a job trying to build a UI to beat an Excel file. Did not succeed.

I really hate how much work happens out of Excel/Google Sheets, but there's no denying that spreadsheets do a lot of heavy lifting without having to fuss with putting a DB together. Especially nowadays when two people can simultaneously work in a spreadsheet.

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