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by smodo
978 days ago
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Holy cow imagine if the interface to handle documents would be the interface people already know. I’m not even joking, this is a brilliant idea. Our company has people working in Moodle constantly. I’m sure 50% of their time is spent clicking though menus. There has to be a better way. |
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Yes. It also should be a pretty obvious one, but the industry and wider software development culture developed a blind spot for it.
I mean, how many startups would offer better value to customer if they ditched their custom, bloated, dog-slow SaaS, and instead offered an Excel spreadsheet? Happens way too often. I know of a failed startup which sunk a ton of money into pretty basic React fronted, whose main competitor actually licensed an Excel plugin for the same job. And much more functional at that.
The whole software dev world avoids interoperability like a plague. For-profit software at least has the Sinclair excuse (salary depends on one's not understanding it), but somehow open source is even worse. Back in the 1990s companies at least tried to make their software pluggable with/into other software via COM/DCOM. As brittle as it was, at least they tried.