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		xavdid on July 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tyranny of Spreadsheets Spreadsheets are great. I just wish folks would use a more appropriate tool for what they really want: a very light-touch database. Something like Airtable is perfect for structuring a bit of data into rows and columns. But, nothing beats the availability (both of sharing and editing) of an open Google Sheet.

gauchojs on July 30, 2021 [–]

And then there's the pricing.. "We already have Google". No way my company would pay for Airtable, Notion, etc

Its spreadsheets all the way.

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