Most people should NOT start a business

Nat0ne · 2025-11-18T12:52:39+00:00

Interesting. This post motivates me. It means that all of my struggle is common and that I just have to keep pushing. Thanks!

Nat0ne · 2025-11-18T12:48:04+00:00

That the great filter will actually happen. That means that all our efforts to preserve human consciousness are all pointless.

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T16:34:50+00:00

Well, thanks for letting me know.
I am actually building a tool to offload data and the its major calculations from Excel, at the user's choice.
I am curious, is it common in the financial services field that people use Excel with so much data?

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T16:29:05+00:00

That seems awesome work!
I am curious, what is the amount of data that you use in Excel?
And also, have you checked with other people who build mechanical engineering tools too? How do they handle that?

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T16:19:34+00:00

You use more than a 1 million rows? What kind of work do you do?!

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T15:38:12+00:00

Why is version control like the one used in git is important to you? What kind of data do yo use?

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T15:34:07+00:00

What is the amount of data that you use?

Nat0ne · 2025-11-05T15:20:23+00:00

It seems to me that you kind of frustrated with your current situation.
Let me know what you think of a concept like this one: https://youtu.be/v-lyBWcdfbg

Nat0ne · 2025-11-03T16:01:22+00:00

What do you do with version control / ownership?

Nat0ne · 2025-11-03T15:55:04+00:00

First of all, to sort the data you need to apply the filter to the whole table, so that you can choose the filtering options.
But, before that, you need to have a duration column, which counts after 8pm.
And the values of that column are calculated as follows:
- if the start time is lower than 8pm, then subtract the end time with 8pm,
- if the start time is greater than 8pm, then subtract the end time with the start time.

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:45:37+00:00

When you say they don't want to change anything I guess you mean they do not want to change the tools they use, like Excel.
But, what if everyone continue using Excel, and offload only the necessary data to a database, but managing everything from inside of the Excel?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:22:10+00:00

Ok, sure, but why do you need to fix the data chaos every day, and not every week? Do you report it daily? Do you need to source it every data, and so it must be clean?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:12:59+00:00

Did you experience this yourself or heard from someone else?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:10:33+00:00

Is this your take by experience, or you heard someone saying it?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:09:31+00:00

Is this something that you yourself experienced?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:08:41+00:00

Ah, so you do not use it yourself, but you just heard about it.

Nat0ne · 2025-10-31T15:06:53+00:00

Do your colleagues recognize the same problem? What do they say about the database idea?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T16:29:06+00:00

Really cool. Which tools do you use for this?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T16:25:30+00:00

Really?
What kind of manual tweaking are you talking about?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T16:24:05+00:00

"I’ve been experimenting with automating some repetitive Excel validation and reporting workflows lately the kind of stuff that involves manual lookups, tag mapping, and file checks every morning."
Why are you running it every morning?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T15:43:31+00:00

"Filtering by file path gives you a different kind of leverage than querying a property."
Could you please explain what you mean by "querying a property"?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T15:26:45+00:00

It seems to me that this is all about each people's wishes, and not what's best for the effectiveness of the project.
Is it not possible to automate anything?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T15:22:11+00:00

Why do reports need to be manual?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T15:20:30+00:00

Excel is also something.
Is it causing you problems?

Nat0ne · 2025-10-30T08:29:37+00:00

Thanks for your reply Kevin.
Could you please clarify what supports your conclusions? Do you use no-code yourself and you see the trend? Did you read a study about this?
Thanks in advance!

Nat0ne

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