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Fodasse a Rows é pelo menos 3x melhor

patifeon RowsX – Turn web pages into spreadsheets, an alternative to web scraping

Noice

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Jira is a downer..

patifeon This Spreadsheet killed their homepage – good idea?

copied after Excalidraw, Puter et al

patifeon Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco

I see a lot of comments about how it’s gotten terrible recently etc.

I’m not from the US, but I’ve been to SF a number on times (>5). The first time was in 2006 for apple WWDC, as a student, and back then I already witnessed a number of people wandering in the streets, mostly passed out or wandering, but I also saw peopoe shouting at the air, and defecating and throwing stuff.

At the time I was told this was a legacy from the post-Vietnam era, where many veterans flocked there due to the dem leaning of the city which provided an expectation of help, and also mostly the nice weather, but ultimately they did not get support.

From that point on things developed. Veterans from other wars, and then generally any people with life issues, were attracted to that location which fits their unfortunate, crazy situation - drugs, a barebones support network that provides food (?), and the fact no one bothers them anymore..

At least that’s what I was told.

In recent years I’ve noticed more of the situation, but tbh nothing that surprises me from the earlier observations. I didn’t see ANY numbers so that may or may not be the case.

I am interested in someone validating or correcting my perception

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

fixed it!

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

unfortunately no. we had a separate project to launch a native app in flutter. it may have led to the web version being in flutter too.

We stopped that project last year due to resources (financial) reasons.

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

lol

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

We have tried many videos. Our team has full discretion (the way to do it) so I wasn't involved directly.

AFAIK the purpose is to excite the target users (marketing managers, operations, business managers) to the potential. We have done other videos with other stories.

Your point is that we should be more intentional in the story? slower? How would you approach a video about a spreadsheet?

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

I figured it wasn't specific. I know exactly what you mean by this friction. We will work hard to establish ourselves as a trusted, safe choice.

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

You can query Rows with QUERY(), with the new PARSE() that uses JsonPath schema. Pretty powerful.

Beyond that you can use the free Restful API.

What exactly are your needs from Excel Query Pivot Tables? What’s the best of it?

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

1Gb per spreadsheet.

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

That you can import from, and export to, Excel too

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

Yes. More spreadsheet focused.

You start with a grid. Grid is flexible and you get cells with literals or cells with formulas.

The new stuff is Integrations, to import and automate data from Saas tools (your API, BigQuery, Ads platforms, Google Analytics, Slack etc).

And Sharing, as every spreadsheet is shareable as a webpage and every table/ chart is embeddable.

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

Rows is free for regular spreadsheet usage (files, cells, formulas)

You pay only if you use lots of Integrations!!

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

IMO spreadsheets must have cell-level flexibility and similar formulas

Monday.com and Airtable are not spreadsheets.

Smartsheet is a spreadsheet, geared towards enterprises

Rows is a spreadsheet

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

It does work like a spreadsheet.

The point is to compete against Excel.

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

Lol!

You will be beat by Cells.com

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

Rows isn’t for apps. It’s for spreadsheets proper.

Just that Rows assumes 2 things:

1. you got to import data from your cloud tools (SaaS like GoogleAnalytics, BigQuery, Looker, Ads platforms,… and your own custom APIs). It’s hard to do on excel and sheets, not flexible and hard to automate.

2. You want to share spreadsheets in a way they render well on mobile.

That’s why we made rows (im a founder)

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

Tks for elaborating! I’m the founder of Rows

it’s not clear to me if that comparison is with Rows or another product

Rows is built to be as flexible as any other spreadsheet

- You can add whatever you want in a cell, literals, formulas, we even support json as a primitive type. - we got the same formulas vlookup sum sumifs filter query, plus hundreds new ones like get, put, post, schedule, expand - we got conditional formatting (not as powerful as sheets, we will get there). - we we got shortcuts, above it all ctrl-k/ Cmd-k, but also many block navigation ones (ctrl+arrow, Cmd+arrow), excel windows compatible shortcuts (f2/f4), and a bunch of others.

Anything in particular you think is a dealbreaker for you?

patifeon Rows 2.0: The easiest way to use data on a spreadsheet

$110k USD. We won’t do subway ads.. not in the next years at least.

https://rows.com/blog/post/why-and-how-we-rebranded

patifeon Europe pushing for lunar time zone

what's the different exactly @jxf?

patifeon Read and Write API launched for spreadsheet Rows.com

No python SDK yet

patifeon Read and Write API launched for spreadsheet Rows.com

can get cell values, get cells (values+formulas), overwrite cells, append cells.

patifeon Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(), ASK_OpenAI()

which cells? example?

patifeon Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(), ASK_OpenAI()

Looks cool too! Python!!

patifeon Spreadsheet with compute-like functions: GET(), POST(), PARSE(), ASK_OpenAI()

Yes ASK_OPENAI(“write a spreadsheet formula that averages values in column A if column C equals Facebook”)

That worked for me!

patifeon Ask_OpenAI(): first-party ChatGPT3 integration in a spreadsheet

free, bring your API key.

patifeon Functional Programming – How and Why

liked it

patifeon Puter

This isn’t a Remote Desktop. This is a cloud file system which loads your files and js apps on the front end in a way that it looks like a remote desktop