Comment on: Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet
OK here is my feedback.First some superficial stuff: Installshield is not going to fly with the market you want to make real money off, i.e. big organisations who want to deploy through Active Directory. The Office addin installer can be put as a merge module into an MSI, that will make the overall install experience much slicker. The instructions on the web page that opens after installation say to look in tab 'Add ins', but it's in separate 'Slate' tab (Office 2013/Win8.1). The introduction tutorial is unintelligibly small on a high dpi screen (Lenovo Yoga Pro 2); so is everything else that
Comment on: Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code
YupIt is a horrible and unusable business model/architecture.1) Requiring subscription to access when it is not technically required is onerous and very questionable value, especially for tools that I'll use intermittently.2) Requiring online access instead of local & native apps makes the false assumption that I'm always connected. Often my most productive times are on 6-hour flights (& no, the onboard wifi is not reliable) or away at locations where there is no connectivity.3) Performance will always suck compared to a fully local app - all the optimizations a developer could do to
Comment on: Show HN: SnapReceipts Snap a receipt, split the bill instantly
curious how the AI handles messy receipts - like folded creases, multiple transactions on one paper, or those handwritten 'tax exempt' notes some places write on the total. also curious how you deal with tip calculation edge cases since thats where most splitting apps fall over