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by benzible 1045 days ago
Not all that curious... https://flatfile.com

If you're building a vertical SaaS and want to support import from a file, and don't want to spend time reinventing the wheel, this could be a big win. This would let new users bring in existing data from another SaaS (that supports CSV export) or where the incumbent is likely to be Excel. The development time it would take to make something like this solid, usable, and flexible enough to handle different formats would, in most cases, be better spent on building domain-specific functionality.

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That use case perfectly describes the needs of the SAAS product my team is building. We have tons of domain specific features we want to build, and anything that frees up dev time for that work gets a look.

While I haven't yet seen the pricing for your link or the OP, this seems like a case where there aren't many negative tradeoffs.