[theantidote]

Really cool. I've been waiting for an easy to use spreadsheet app that would let me do this for a while without having to figure out formulas or vbscript. This looks useful and I'll definitely use it as needed in the future.

What's your business model for this? Are you just doing advertising or are you also offering a rush fee or maybe charging extra for files over 5MB or something?

[andrewcatton]

It almost certainly won't be advertising, though we'll make it easy to get to Dabble DB from here, which seems to be a good way of monetizing traffic. Otherwise, we're pretty open-minded at this point -- I'd be interested in hearing what people think makes the most sense..

[mikeyur]

The business model that makes the most sense to me is to sell the solution to businesses. Companies that deal with a lot of databases and want an easy solution to do mass edits. They probably could have their IT guys write some crazy Excel macro to do a lot of this, but your product is so simple my mom could use it, which is a great thing.

You could keep it as a web service and/or charge to license it to businesses and make residual income off support/updates/installation on their network.

[jeroen]

It might be interesting to offer repeatability to businesses. Have them create an account and save their transformations. The challenge might be how to allow the editing of a transformation in the same simple UI.