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In all of this 200+ comments thread, this is the first time you've clearly articulated examples of the pain to solve. Here's what to notice about these three comments:

In all three, you still want to ideally be using Excel. In a sense, these are three feature requests for Excel...and each of them is valuable:

-Getting a tool that instantly turns Excel into something made available online, that can be easily manipulated - that's great. (Not Google Sheets. Not Tableau. Not CSV. Excel) - A Diff tool for excel spreadsheets, or a version control tool for them - also amazing.

Your tool is none of those things. It demands so much upfront, and supposedly targets those who have neither the time nor the desire to spend that time fiddling with what is ultimately pitched as a sort-of-Excel-but-not-that-solves-maybe-one-problem-but-presents-five-new-ones.

Beware of the sunk cost fallacy. You've put all this effort into this and now it becomes how to patch it up into something someone will buy.



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