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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. trashb ◴[09 Dec 25 13:13 UTC] No.46204591[source]▶
Spreadsheets are powerful, but often abused. They are great for economics but horrible for logic.

Most medium to large complex spreadsheets are better implemented in a high level programming language.

Spreadsheets seem useful for people that are scared of programming syntax but quickly become so much less maintainable and janky that I believe its almost always easier to just start with learning to program already.

Especially excel is 100% jank.