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I run a VA business with my brother so we deal with a lot of spreadsheets. We have had a few real estate firms as our customers. They put EVERYTHING in Google Sheets and Excel.

Everything from regulatory document , CRM data and checklists everything. Having billions of row might sound problematic but when a google sheet gets capped or slow they will either create a new sheet on the same file or a new file. A RE firm over its 10 year operations has hundreds and hundreds of spreadsheets. They even have spreadsheets to locate spreadsheets.....

Having everything in one spot is a slightly better thing to do. You can't pry spreadsheets from small businesses no matter what justification you have. From a practical standpoint upping the limits is kind of a good thing.

We usually clean everything up manually and create a proper database that they can query easily. Or they can just tell us what they need through email.



Veterans Affairs? Virginia?


Virtual Assistance.


Maybe virtual assistant?


Fascinating. We’re seeing the same thing. Seeing a few companies opt for Coda as a way to convert some sheets to processes. Here’s what we’ve done with it: https://supsync.com/squared-away/




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