Super table: Want to cottage Excel, or say with it byebye?

Entrepreneurial products are inevitably brought to the comparison with the existing well-known products, entrepreneurs also like their products with the existing well-known products compared.

I, the founder of the Super form, have something to say about it.

When I'm going to describe what a super form is, I've been wrestling with it for a variety of occasions.

When describing to the user, said Super table like Excel, can be used to manage a variety of data, the difference is that we are online software, with more convenient collaboration than Excel;

When introduced to investors, said Super table is a new idea to do Enterprise informatization: We are not classified into CRM, OA and project management software categories, but the value of our products is that users can use the Super table at low cost instead of CRM, OA, PM. The Super table is a common data management tool or platform like Excel.

When recommending to a friend, you can collaborate online Excel.

The problem comes, as long as the comparison of Excel, used by people will take Excel's habit of comparing super table, need statistics, format brush, CTRL + A, C, v shortcut keys, formulas, macros ...

And we on some occasions, exactly propaganda old dough stick software excel in this era for new users to learn the cost is too high, the user experience is too bad, we have to subvert. In this era of user experience, who has the patience to spend a few weeks watching a thick tutorial or attending a training course to learn Excel? Say Excel is a good thing, that is 20 years ago when users do not have more choice when the non-resistance choice. Don't use Excel to be afraid of people saying they are stupid. Now, in the face of the same situation, I would say that Excel is too bad to use, the user experience is too bad.

But I actually look up to Excel's boss status: 1 billion users worldwide, the king of data management software! An Excel software can throw all the OA, CRM, PM and ERP products out of the world on several streets.

If we brag that we want to subvert Excel, instead of Excel, then we certainly can't fake it. On the contrary, we see many of the shortcomings that Excel sees in this era from the user's perspective: The volume is getting more and more slow, the learning cost is high, the operation is not human (for example, the line break in a cell must press the Shift+enter key); You cannot insert a picture in a cell; the page is bloated and ugly;

If you do not believe that Excel can be overturned, please think of the Microsoft Mobile phone operating system by the iphone subversion, ie browser in front of Chrome is simply not Yan. Abroad has appeared the PPT killer, Excel killer ...

So don't expect the super table to be as excel as possible. As for the cottage ... What is that?

However, we will properly preserve Excel's usage habits, such as the line numbers on the left, the ABCD markers at the top of each column, and various CTRL shortcut keys.

About the cottage, there is something to say that the United States has an online form product called Smartsheet (has been invested in $35 million), with the idea of super-table 8-like. I would say that after designing the Super form product, we stumbled upon it to resemble our product. We are glad to have a good heart. We are proud that we are innovating.

Back to the topic, my answer is that we will learn the best, but the essence of entrepreneurship is to innovate, "cottage" is not likely to be our choice to do products.

In fact, a good form, just our first step ...

Today, this is because the Super form has just released a new version, the speed is greatly increased, the average time to open the table from the original 10 seconds, up to 5 seconds.

Super table: Want to cottage Excel, or say with it byebye?