I had a quick look and for your benefit I'll be blunt - I hope you'll see it that way.
Your application directly competes with Excel and is both more complicated and less powerful at the same time. The JS syntax is too much for your average MBA.
To avoid competing with Excel, which thousands before you have attempted and failed at, you need a way to make it interoperable with Excel - that means an easy way to export to and from. Make sure you know it in and out, so you can focus on solving problems that are hard/obscure in Excel. Like, for example, programmatic data sanitation, normalization, and import.
If your tool could generate nice plots and graphs from various data sources, update them in existing documents, and dump the processed data into Excel sheets, all in a single step, I could see someone using it.
A thing that is 'big' nowadays is 'Google Sheets as a service'. The way this works is that someone maintains a Google Sheets document that - for instance - contains current market prices. They may do this with some sort of custom script.
Then others can use that tables data in their own table, which automatically updates with the source data.
A tool that creates automatically updating sheets - be it by running locally or by updating some sheet in the cloud - might sell.
Anyways I went off on a tangent that is indeed pretty far from what your tool does right now.
Thanks for the honest feedback. The Excel message is just a test I did yesterday (taking the opportunity that the post was on the front page). I don't plan to tackle Excel head on at all. Just very specific excel use cases by financial institutions who totally abuse it.
Your application directly competes with Excel and is both more complicated and less powerful at the same time. The JS syntax is too much for your average MBA.
To avoid competing with Excel, which thousands before you have attempted and failed at, you need a way to make it interoperable with Excel - that means an easy way to export to and from. Make sure you know it in and out, so you can focus on solving problems that are hard/obscure in Excel. Like, for example, programmatic data sanitation, normalization, and import.
If your tool could generate nice plots and graphs from various data sources, update them in existing documents, and dump the processed data into Excel sheets, all in a single step, I could see someone using it.
A thing that is 'big' nowadays is 'Google Sheets as a service'. The way this works is that someone maintains a Google Sheets document that - for instance - contains current market prices. They may do this with some sort of custom script.
Then others can use that tables data in their own table, which automatically updates with the source data.
A tool that creates automatically updating sheets - be it by running locally or by updating some sheet in the cloud - might sell.
Anyways I went off on a tangent that is indeed pretty far from what your tool does right now.