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I see a lot of comments about how it’s gotten terrible recently etc.

I’m not from the US, but I’ve been to SF a number on times (>5). The first time was in 2006 for apple WWDC, as a student, and back then I already witnessed a number of people wandering in the streets, mostly passed out or wandering, but I also saw peopoe shouting at the air, and defecating and throwing stuff.

At the time I was told this was a legacy from the post-Vietnam era, where many veterans flocked there due to the dem leaning of the city which provided an expectation of help, and also mostly the nice weather, but ultimately they did not get support.

From that point on things developed. Veterans from other wars, and then generally any people with life issues, were attracted to that location which fits their unfortunate, crazy situation - drugs, a barebones support network that provides food (?), and the fact no one bothers them anymore..

At least that’s what I was told.

In recent years I’ve noticed more of the situation, but tbh nothing that surprises me from the earlier observations. I didn’t see ANY numbers so that may or may not be the case.

I am interested in someone validating or correcting my perception

We have tried many videos. Our team has full discretion (the way to do it) so I wasn't involved directly.

AFAIK the purpose is to excite the target users (marketing managers, operations, business managers) to the potential. We have done other videos with other stories.

Your point is that we should be more intentional in the story? slower? How would you approach a video about a spreadsheet?

Yes. More spreadsheet focused.

You start with a grid. Grid is flexible and you get cells with literals or cells with formulas.

The new stuff is Integrations, to import and automate data from Saas tools (your API, BigQuery, Ads platforms, Google Analytics, Slack etc).

And Sharing, as every spreadsheet is shareable as a webpage and every table/ chart is embeddable.

Rows isn’t for apps. It’s for spreadsheets proper.

Just that Rows assumes 2 things:

1. you got to import data from your cloud tools (SaaS like GoogleAnalytics, BigQuery, Looker, Ads platforms,… and your own custom APIs). It’s hard to do on excel and sheets, not flexible and hard to automate.

2. You want to share spreadsheets in a way they render well on mobile.

That’s why we made rows (im a founder)

Tks for elaborating! I’m the founder of Rows

it’s not clear to me if that comparison is with Rows or another product

Rows is built to be as flexible as any other spreadsheet

- You can add whatever you want in a cell, literals, formulas, we even support json as a primitive type. - we got the same formulas vlookup sum sumifs filter query, plus hundreds new ones like get, put, post, schedule, expand - we got conditional formatting (not as powerful as sheets, we will get there). - we we got shortcuts, above it all ctrl-k/ Cmd-k, but also many block navigation ones (ctrl+arrow, Cmd+arrow), excel windows compatible shortcuts (f2/f4), and a bunch of others.

Anything in particular you think is a dealbreaker for you?

Puter 4 years ago

This isn’t a Remote Desktop. This is a cloud file system which loads your files and js apps on the front end in a way that it looks like a remote desktop