Show HN: Pastebin for CSV

http://www.sharecsv.com/

by huy • 12 years ago

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huy5• 12 years ago

I think it's important to share the context behind this project:

I work on the Data team of an acquired startup, working a lot with business/product people. We communicate a lot through internal chat (Hipchat!) and get a lot of requests for adhoc data.

We (the data people) would then run these quick queries, export the results and send over to them in email (CSV).

I find this process very cumbersome, as they'd have to open their email, download the CSV and load them into Excel to be able to see them. Sometimes it's just a small table, and doing this is really inefficient.

That's why we made ShareCSV: They (Product/Marketing/Business) just get a link to click, and most of the time they'll see the numbers they need without having to download anything (and having Excel/OpenOffice to open them).

akx• 12 years ago

Good stuff.

There's one "killer feature" you could add, though: .XLS/.XLSX(/.ODS) export that works better than Excel's notoriously terrible CSV import wizard.

That would make it instantly possible to continue analyzing the data in Excel if such a thing is required.

huy5• 12 years ago

Thanks a lot! I think that is a "killer feature" too. Will look into implementing that.

spyglass• 12 years ago

Very useful. Certainly quicker than uploading to Google Docs, Zoho Office, and other workalike services.

It would be much more useful if it had user accounts, though. One might want to edit or delete an uploaded file.

huy5• 12 years ago

Thanks! That would be something we consider adding next :-)

fiatjaf2• 12 years ago

No! Stop the user accounts nightmare, keep it simple forever!

huy5• 12 years ago

I do think s/he has a point. Some people would want to login and manage their upload files.

Though you can pretty much upload files without having to login whatsoever. Pretty much similar to Github Gist, or Imgur.

fiatjaf2• 12 years ago

You could add charts with just one line of code: http://charts.brace.io/

huy5• 12 years ago

This is very cool. Thank you!

flipstables• 12 years ago

Nice.

How about a text box to copy/paste data from Excel and then options to specify delims, quotes, & escapes? That would be great as I hate to save a file to my desktop before dragging it into the browser.

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