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by longneckdeer 12y ago
I think a reasonable follow up question is how did you market your blog posts so successfully?
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Hi, 1. What browser/OS version are you using? I would like to reproduce this issue. 2. It's in the context menu you mentioned, and in the upper right corner of the form. We should find some way to make it more prominent. 3. The dynamic list
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
We hired a native English speaker to edit most of our copies.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
I changed to the first suggestion: "Build your database with an online spreadsheet" We try to make the sentences as short as possible.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
OK, let's try this for a title. "Build your database with online spreadsheet" I've already updated this to the website.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Got it. We've put the simple demo and tutorial as a automatically installed application in your account when you registered. Looks like we need more clear explanation even before the registration. We tried to focus on the benefits of Ragic
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
I see. It's freestyle drag and drop after you exit the tutorial. Fixed workflow is only for teaching purpose only.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Hi, did you run into some problems in the tutorial? Or because the steps of the tutorial is too complex?
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Great suggestion. I think Twilio is a great role model for development tools. We'll try to learn a thing or two from it.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Yes, we've worked on A LOT of items from the last submission. The biggest problem was that it's not really easy for people to get started on how to build applications with Ragic. People don't like to read documents, so we added an "Interact
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
We had a sandbox account log in at the registration page, but after some testing we found that it made a lot of people who would have signed up just go to the sandbox instead. The original page is here: http://www.ragic.com/intl/en/registe
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Agree, didn't know I can scroll-wheel to scroll until I saw this comment.
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Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid(ragic.com)
82 points by longneckdeer 14y ago|41 comments
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Ragic, a Database/Excel hybrid. I just posted Show HN above. It's a product where you can build online databases just like creating a Web Excel spreadsheet. There's free trial that you can try out first with online tutorial. The lite licens
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
The idea is like this: If the user already have data on an Excel, we provide an import wizard so that they can import their Excel and create a database with it. If the user does not have existing data from Excel, they can first define the d
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Yes, using the import Excel wizard we can do that.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
There are 4 of us, and some of us are doing projects using Ragic so that we have the money to survive. We are currently self-funded.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Thanks, very useful comment, and I apologize for the confusion that you experienced. Right now most of the Ragic developers first go through 2 hours of training before they start building. So they kind of know what the basics process are. W
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
The user limit is to segment large user sites from small user sites. We assume larger users sites have more budget. But we seem to need a cheaper plan designed for developers and geeks so that they can play around Ragic with minimal investm
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Pricing has always been a big topic of discussion inside our team. Would really like to know what kind of pricing would keep you or anyone else reading this comment interested.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Some of the content didn't show for a while because we used GAE as our CDN and we exceeded billing limit. Things should work normally now.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
We used Google Application Engine as our CDN...turning on billing now!
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
One big point that we forgot to mention in that blog post is that Excel is hard to work with when multiple users are involved. It would be quite a bit of trouble if Excel users want to implement access control on whether some users can read
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Kind of curious what kind of trouble that you ran into when using Quickbase. You can e-mail me if you don't feel like posting it here. (jeff@ragic.com)
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Great tip! Thanks! We'll do that.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
For a long time when we search "Ragic" google will ask us "Did you mean tragic?"
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Rag-ick It's suppose to be Rapid + Magic
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Hey thanks! I really appreciate this, my English is not all that good.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
Disclosure: I'm one of the founders of Ragic.
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by longneckdeer 14y ago
if 60% of developers break even, counting opportunity cost, I would be really surprised

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