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by davidwilson
5816 days ago
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There are plenty of other great (and by the looks of it maybe even better) graphing utilities out there - including Excel. It looks like people have covered some of the other points I would have raised - except for these two.
(1) Your audience already owns Excel, and they won't stop owning if they use your service. Don't forget that.
(2) People use graphs to show other people their conclusions. They do it using either Powerpoint (or Prezi etc, but mostly Powerpoint.) If your charts can't plug in to a presentation utility, you'll lose a lot of users. If they _can_ plug into a presentation utility, you need to make that clear up front. - Take a look at oomfo (from the fusion charts guys) to get an idea of what I'm thinking of. |
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The comparison with Excel always comes up first. I'm not trying to suddenly move people from using Excel. I'm making something which does what Excel cannot do well or easily. I guess I need to make this message clear on my site.
Pretty Graph has a PDF download feature which addresses the presentation issue. I can also add copy saying that you can use the images also in Powerpoint. I am also looking to add a direct export to PPT feature.
I had a quick look at oomfo. It looks nice, but it's not web-based and although I'm not saying desktop apps are no good, I've chosen the online space.
Other planned features, which should hopefully be useful (and "viral") are easy sharing and collaborating on graphs.