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Can you provide examples of software that should have literally been a spreadsheet or an ETL? Not to call you out specifically but this feels like "I could have
by bubblyworld 1y ago
Can you provide examples of software that should have literally been a spreadsheet or an ETL? Not to call you out specifically but this feels like "I could have written that in a weekend". Personally whenever I have felt that way about a project it turned out I was just missing 95% of the business context/domain knowledge (part of the reason I think rewrites are a bad idea - chesterton's fence).
- t43562 1y agoI can give you one - a billing system with reporting features that suck dreadfully compared to what can be done with a spreadsheet. Why not "just" let the user download a CSV and then do whatever they want with it? I was working on this project and I kept suggesting it. It was seen as inferior and yet the system we were going to produce was far inferior in every way.