One question/thought: what's your security like? Inevitably, people treat spreadsheets like databases for better or worse. That means they often contain lots of things that might be better stored elsewhere - sometimes PII, sometimes a proprietary formula, set of factors as inputs to a process, etc.
So, I think many spreadsheet-heavy businesses will avoid something that doesn't obviously sit inside the fortress of security they've approved. Of course, someone can just accidentally email a spreadsheet to the wrong person or store it somewhere with no security. It happens all the time, I'm under no illusion.
Point is: I would be more likely to give it a shot given a base level of confidence about the security of storing anything in these sheets.
All excellent points. Right now, Neptyne works much like a Google doc in that it's private to you but is easily sharable to pretty much anyone. If our users are looking for it, a self-hosted option is certainly something we'll explore.
Then there's things like PII protections as you said, data provenance, that you could imagine baked into the spreadsheet directly. We haven't gone in that direction but I think it's interesting to consider.
What sort of features around data security would you hope to see in a spreadsheet?
One question/thought: what's your security like? Inevitably, people treat spreadsheets like databases for better or worse. That means they often contain lots of things that might be better stored elsewhere - sometimes PII, sometimes a proprietary formula, set of factors as inputs to a process, etc.
So, I think many spreadsheet-heavy businesses will avoid something that doesn't obviously sit inside the fortress of security they've approved. Of course, someone can just accidentally email a spreadsheet to the wrong person or store it somewhere with no security. It happens all the time, I'm under no illusion.
Point is: I would be more likely to give it a shot given a base level of confidence about the security of storing anything in these sheets.
Interested to hear your take!