On: Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity

[eru]

> I work in marketing. Marketing projects are inherently speculative, you don't know what they will achieve until they're done. Add to this that dev teams at every company have full sprints planned for months. Getting a marketing project done through the dev team is months of exertion and sweat.

Slightly off-topic: you basically just described why spreadsheets were such a huge deal when they were first introduced in the 1980s.

[disgruntledphd2 → eru]

And also why the world still runs on Excel.

[eru → disgruntledphd2]

Yes, definitely!

Excel is actually a relatively decent programming language when you want to quickly _write_ a business application.

The big problem occurs when you want to _read_ the application. Alas, reading is necessary for maintenance and debugging and reviewing/auditing.