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EtherCalc

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What is EtherCalc?

EtherCalc is a real-time collaborative spreadsheet available from a browser with no sign-up, available also at no cost.

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Developer Tool for tabulation, organization, collaboration, visualization with a wonderful WYSIWYG user interface.

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Manu GuptaView profile
Co-founder, Director in Corporate at Aspiring Investments (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are both a user and developer on EtherCalc. We have developed close to 1200+ applications in the areas of enterprise billing, accounting, scheduling jobs, health management and registration systems, personal finance and ledger, taxation and productivity applications. It is a fun tool to do spreadsheet based app development.

Pros

  • Develop applications on the go with good integration with visualization libraries
  • Interoperability with csv, Excel and JSON files
  • Real time collaboration and editing
  • Tabulation and graphing along with ability to use as an npm module
  • Availability on all public clouds including AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure
  • Low code and no code development tool.
  • Real-time data pull from a variety of third-party apps

Cons

  • Interoperability with Lotus Notes and Open Office can be improved
  • Integration with AWS tools and services like SNS, Sagemaker, Lambda, S3 and Forecast
  • Integration with GIthub CI/CD tools for machine learning pipeline development
  • Integration with R, Scipy, Numpy and Keras libraries needed
  • Availability on Microsoft Power platform and teams as an application
  • Integration with GSuite and Salesforce platform along with Telegram, Discord and Slack
  • Integration with SAP BTP, ABAP and SAP Hana Cloud needed
  • Availability within Ionic, NativeScript or Appgyer as an extension or a plugin

Return on Investment

  • Very good opportunities on using it as a low code, no code tool with ionic open source platform. Able to meet needs of our customers and do real time deployment quickly
  • Very productive and useful for developing web APIs and PWAs on the cloud, tablet, mobile and a variety of surface devices (touch functions can be customized according to needs)
  • Spreadsheet for the next 100-150 years as it integrates well with React, Angular and Jquery libraries. Maintainable and readable code of spreadsheet
  • Low barrier to entry on training and end user development
  • Good analytics and accounting tool for startups
  • What you see is what you get interface
  • The ability to integrate with firebase and Dropbox is neat.

Alternatives Considered

Airtable, Apache OpenOffice Calc, Flutter and by Google

Other Software Used

Ionic, GitHub, Google Workspace, Ethereum, WhatsApp Business, Android, Firebase, Dropbox, Bitbucket, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Infura Ethereum API, IPFS, Shared Contacts for Gmail, Dropbox, Box