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by sparsely 1776 days ago
I think Airtable is starting to get us there, but it's a long way to go.

Something that combined Airtable, excel, and maybe a more userfriendly (and more restricted) version of darklang for defining formulae could be really slick.

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Airtable is pretty, but lacks simple functionality that spreadsheets have had for 30 years (like aggregates across rows). Airtable is more of a replacement for Access than Excel.
Airtable is a great example of what I would like to see. Basically, the ability to create sheets that are are like airtable-like that users can reference as usual in other general-purpose excel sheets.