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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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419 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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debo_ ◴[08 Dec 25 20:09 UTC] No.46196982[source]▶
> I'm sure every organisation has hundreds if not thousands of Excel sheets tracking important business processes that would be far better off as a SaaS app.

Far better off for who? People constantly dismiss spreadsheets, but in many cases, they are more powerful, more easily used by the people who have the domain knowledge required to properly implement calculations or workflow, and are more or less universally accessible.

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1. jl6 ◴[09 Dec 25 10:49 UTC] No.46203479[source]▶
Spreadsheets are absolutely the right solution for a great many problems. The important thing to recognize is when a problem has outgrown a spreadsheet solution. That’s usually when you start to use a spreadsheet as a database, or when it has more than a handful of users.

It’s a rare spreadsheet that survives its original creator.