Interesting - Equals aims to replace Excel
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Posted by tightbeam
Jul 28, 2022 at 12:19 PM
It makes complete sense to develop software that does *one* thing better than the market leader. But developing software to replace the market leader, as the creators of Equal have attempted to do, and then charging $250 for a license, smacks of lunacy.
Andy Brice wrote:
>I don’t see this being a particularly viable business to be in
>
>It certainly isn’t a business that I would like to be in!
>
>The main competitor to all 3 of my products (PerfectTablePlan, Hyper
>Plan and Easy Data Transform) is probably Excel. But I am only trying to
>replace Excel for specific tasks (table planning, task planning, data
>transformation). I’m definitely not trying to replace Excel completely.
>
>See also:
>https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies
>
>Andy Brice