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building ChartPoet(https://chartpoet.com)

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YC Application here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RnRE4wV54vzlFM2TM89Y2LCD...

Hi, I am a solo founder building ChartPoet (https://chartpoet.com).

ChartPoet is like Google docs for databases. ChartPoet provides an excel/sheets like collaborative environment for databases so that people who dont know SQL can work on querying and visualizing data. Have a look (Access Pin: 7612) at this

https://zifi.chartpoet.io/data/frBkjNW6Ct7/

Will really appreciate some feedback.

At my last job we did a comparison between Vue and React before rewriting a major frontend application.

We did a POC in both React/Vue and ended up using Vue mainly due to the following reasons:

Single File Components

Single file components (.vue files) is the best thing about Vue. I understand this might be a personal preference, but we wanted to avoid CSS-IN-JS. Our designer could churn out neat html/css, but was a beginner in Javascript. With Vue's single file components, he could also hack parallely with us while iterating on html/css.

Standard / Official way of doing things

This again is a personal preference but Vuejs comes with a recommended way to do a majority of things. Vuex(state management) and Vue-Router are provided/maintained by same Vue core team.

React at times can be overwhelming for beginnners, just because of the amount of choice available

Example:

Google Search for 'React CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=react+css+style] points to a bunch of links all of which link to valid solutions, but I have to go through a few of them before I get what I am looking for.

Similar search for 'Vue CSS style' [https://www.google.co.in/search?q=vue+css+style] all top links lead to official documenation on vuejs.org.

Excellent documentation

Also, as a team we were primarily writing Angular 1 when we decided to choose a frontend framework for newer projects. I feel this also made our transition to Vue easier vis a vis React

We havent yet released the product, so we dont really have metrics around usage from international users.

We could launch English only for now, making sure that the application is ready to be internationalized in the future.

We do use ExitIntent on our site. Please click on "See it in action" link below. We kept it like this so that if user wants to see the demo multiple times , they can see it working. The actual exitintent wouldn't work if user wanted to see it multiple times, as popups are shown only once per user per site

Thanks for your feedback

I agree that these popups might seem spammy. To avoid this ExitIntent popups are shown only once per user per site(or until you decide to reset the cookies)

We built the WYSIWYG editor with predesigned templates so that it would be easy for anyone to run popup campaigns.The idea is to help people generate leads from exiting visitors, and a popup campaign is one of the ways to do it.

Hello HN,

We released Papyrus here on HN a few month back.One of the most requested features was to be able to collaboratively edit books. We have tried to provide a collaborative editing environment where multiple authors can simultaneously edit an ebook(all made possible due to http://sharejs.org/) Your feedback would be very helpful.