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I wrote a reconciliation tool in VBA in Excel. I scan in all the (mostly thermal-printed) receipts and it matches them to credit card charges. I've done bookkeeping taxes that way for a decade.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Wrote a reconciliation tool to match scanned receipts to credit card charges
I wanted to help them transition to Code without scaring them. So I wrote a guide and built a Toolkit... simple Python pandas scripts to replace VBA.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Automation and scripting within Excel
This is what VB6 Access VBA HyperCard enabled back in the day... the person can iteratively narrow down to what they need, feedback is instant.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Enabled non-techies to build internal business tools (duct-taped-code-pasta).
As Access and FoxPro and VBA and Zapier and so many tools have done before, LLM coding assistants and software building tools offer some promise in shaking some of these up by letting orgs convert their core sheets to internal applications.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Converting core business logic/spreadsheets into internal applications
You can write insanely powerful software using... imperative logic in VBA (HTTP calls, database calls, file system, etc.).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Adding imperative logic (HTTP calls, database calls, file system) to Excel-based software
Genuinely hate checking my calendar, Vela has taken that obligation out of my day to day
Product Hunt • ProductHunt • Use case: Automating calendar management to avoid the manual task of checking and organizing it.
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