Turn all your spreadsheets into a lightweight searchable database

Piotr Grudzien
Equity Front
Published in
2 min readAug 19, 2019

Microsoft Excel came out over 30 years ago. Since then almost every other software tool has been replaced by its modern, cloud version. Except Excel.

Came for the data, stayed for the Excel

The Excel-Email mess

Spreadsheets have become a natural end point for every BI, accounting or data management tool. No matter how sophisticated, slick or “made with ❤️ in SF” the tool is, eventually you’ll always want to export data to Excel.

As a result, data is always centralised on a local hard drive and shared with others via dozens of emails. Arguably, Excel has become the most popular database (and programming language) in the world which makes email with an .xls attachment the most popular medium of data exchange.

Even if you do store all your spreadsheets in the cloud, it is anything but easy to fish out the specific number or insight you’re after. You’ve always got countless outdated and duplicated spreadsheets floating about.

While Dropbox made it easy to store files online, there is no good solution to quickly set up, share and edit data in the cloud.

Those Excels your whole team needs to share

Search all your spreadsheets instead

How would you like a private database that takes 30 seconds to set up? Everybody on your team immediately gets access to all the data. And it’s as easy to use as Google. I mean, just try it.

We believe you should be able to pick up a new software tool and get value out of it in 30 seconds.

Also, it needs to be fast. And look good.

Go to equityfront.com and see how you can get set up in 30 seconds

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