Ask HN: How to find businesses running their operations on spreadsheets?

2 points by jainvivek 47 days ago | 6 comments

gogurt2000 47 days ago |

In my experience, most businesses are running some portion of their operations in spreadsheets.

More importantly: they don't want to change. They're running things out of spreadsheets because that represents the technical skills their staff has. They don't want to learn a new, specialized tool for a process when a spreadsheet works. They don't want to pay for that specialized tool. They don't want to deal with troubleshooting it when it fails.

dlcarrier 47 days ago | |

When people talk about jobs lost to automation, we tend to think it's robots building things, but in reality most of it is because of something like someone using a modern resource management system, instead of paying accountants who were doing math on desk calculators and copying it into a spreadsheet, because that's the only way they know how to do it.

jainvivek 45 days ago | | |

Spreadsheets can also be automated to perform specific functions.

jainvivek 45 days ago | |

I should have framed the question better. I meant to ask for businesses where all/major operations are being run on spreadsheets.

"they don't want to change": Do you think they are open to use spreadsheet's extensions or just want to stick to plain spreadsheets?

PaulHoule 47 days ago |

Isn't it most of them? Look them up on LinkedIn and ask. Walk in the front door and ask.

jainvivek 45 days ago | |

I meant to ask for businesses where all/major operations are being run on spreadsheets.