Spreadsheet.com will be retired on May 31, 2024

https://www.spreadsheet.com/blog/spreadsheet-com-will-be-retired-on-may-31-2024

by airstrike • 2 years ago

34 13 2 years ago

spreadsheet.com

yawnxyz• 2 years ago

would be nice if they open sourced some of the code!

IronWolve• 2 years ago

My work uses smartsheet and its widely popular. Wonder why spreadsheet.com couldn't compete.

timeagain• 2 years ago

Almost anybody using Smartsheet isn’t paying for the spreadsheet functionality. Otherwise they would just use the cloud version of Excel. Smartsheets value add is all of the eventing, reporting, and product management tools that are baked right into the spreadsheet. It’s like a crappier (but vastly cheaper) version of salesforce, qualtrix, asana, and tableau all in one beautiful data model.

I say this as a former employee.

Tagbert• 2 years ago

We use Smartsheet for the project planning feature. I even wrote a utility to take a Smartsheet excel export and generate a more polished Gantt chart for presentation.

ukuina• 2 years ago

despite winning the business of over 1,000 organizations, we were unfortunately unable to achieve venture-scale growth.

VC strikes again!

PufPufPuf• 2 years ago

It's no longer about building a sustainable company, it's about building a fast-growing promise of market dominance.

presentation• 2 years ago

It’s never been about building a sustainable company with VC

sydbarrett74• 2 years ago

VC is a euphemism for pump-and-dump.

rekabis• 2 years ago

VC

Funny how that is quickly becoming backronymned to Vampire Capitalism.

lucas03• 2 years ago

decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.

koolhead17• 2 years ago

What will happen to the codebase and amazing product they have built?

amadeuspagel• 2 years ago

I guess a good dotcom isn't everything. Or maybe $category.com isn't a good dotcom, at least when $category has established competitors.

ianschmitz• 2 years ago

It’s sad that so many tech companies are pressured to grow or die. It feels rare to see folks build stable, healthy growth businesses these days. Gotta burn through all the cash and get that next round of funding!

Spreadsheet.com will be retired on May 31, 2024

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