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by ScottWhigham 4484 days ago
Congrats - seems very interesting.

My initial impressions - in an unfiltered, stream-of-conciousness "Ignore if you like" form:

- Why would I pay a per month fee for an Excel add-in?

- The visual examples - the screen width was so wide that I had trouble grasping how I would use this to see the big picture without zooming out (as you did)

- At no point did I understand why I needed to use "the cloud" yet the pricing implies that I do

- The Prezi demo took a long time to load

- The Prezi demo showed me one thing: error handling. That's an edge case though isn't it? The question is, "Do most people who work with Excel spend most of their time trying to spot/correct errors in spreadsheets, or do they spend most of their time trying to understand the data in pristine spreadsheets?" I'd argue that it's the latter.

- I have absolutely no idea about how it works with a sample data set. This is very important to me.

That's just my random feedback. Maybe it's useful to you. it seems like a cool product.

1 comments

Thanks for the feedback. I am one of the co-founders.

To respond to these points: - Enterprise software seems to be moving increasingly towards a subscription pricing mode. (eg Office 365). Additionally, this is software that will be used on a regular (daily, at least weekly) basis, and when you calculate the potential time-savings, pays for itself quickly, - Thanks for the UI tip. We are working really hard on improving the UI, esp as this is one of our main selling points! - We need to be clearer on benefits of cloud vs addin. One of our big learning points recently has been that users seem to favour the addin over the cloud. - Sorry about this. - From speaking to our target users (mainly analysts in the financial industry), there are two things that repeatedly come out: error handling and understanding exactly how complex spreadsheets works. We have found interest has been about 50:50 for both - This is a fair point! We will include some sample data and show the Slate view with it.