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In my day job, a customer would ask me to reconcile between 2 giant CSVs very often. Think GBs.

When I tell them to do it in Excel by themselves, they would say Excel couldn't open a CSV larger than 1M rows...

At first, I was using sqlite through shell. I hated it so much that I built a desktop app on top of it. It wasn't slick enough with all the typing.

It is quite a joy to use, and I'd love for people to try it out: https://superintendent.app (disclaimer: I'm the creator).




> When I tell them to do it in Excel by themselves, they would say Excel couldn't open a CSV larger than 1M rows...

Sure it can. Just use the "Import from Text/CSV" feature instead of directly opening the CSV. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-to-do-if-a-d...


I was a user of superintendent until about a year ago (it doesn't make sense for my current job), and I liked it a lot. Tanin was responsive by email, and the tool was very helpful for standard CSV tasks. Well worth the price for me. If I ever need to do those kinds of tasks again, I'll gladly become a customer again.


Really appreciate your kind words! I'm glad we crossed path, though, based on your username, I can't tell who you are. haha.

To be honest, I'm still trying to find more a product market fit.

It feels like a travel planning app where people might need it once every few months, so it doesn't quite catch on.

On another hand, I do have a few passionate users who analyze 40+ CSVs at the same time, but I'm struggling to improve UX for these users. Building great UI is hard. But maybe this is what I need to do.


You’re hiding the price quite well (although at least you’re not hiding the fact that it has a price)

It’s $40/year for those wondering.


I wasn't trying to hide its price.

The price is very obvious on the website.

Users can't use it for an extended period of time without paying.

You said it like I was tricking people into paying somehow.


> The price is very obvious on the website.

Hate to agree, but yes right there, 100 pixels above the download link, very nice and clear site, I heartily approve. Not sure how you'll get $1b of funding for something that user friendly though -- I don't see any dark patterns at all!

> Does your workplace reimburse software's cost?

I don't need your app, but my workplace certainly doesn't. I can buy all sorts of hardware from preferred suppliers through our purchasing system, I can with a few hoops generate a one-time credit card to buy a random thing from a random person (how I pay for starlink for example), and for some specific cases I can pay myself and claim back later

However software is blocked from all this.

> Even if Superintendent.app only saves you 30 minutes per month, it's already worth the minimal price tag that we will charge after beta.

To buy software in my company would take far longer than the 6 hours that I'd save each year! This of course is entirely the fault of my company, but I wonder how many other companies have similar policies.

What I can do though is spin up a AWS ami with a software charge and nobody bats an eyelid. I'm not sure how much of a "cut" aws takes, but something to think about.

(If it really helped me I'd just eat the $40 personally and take a day off in lieu, but I've known some people put in receiptless claims to get around the policy)


I hope it didn't take too much of your time to ramble all of this.

One thing I'm interested in is the dark pattern you accused me of.

Users literally cannot use it beyond the trial period if they don't pay, and I don't collect credit card info before the trial.

Are you saying someone might accidentally pay for this?


I think you need to reread the post you’re complaining about


OMG $40/year?!? Most outfits would charge $40/month/user/basic, add $100/month/user/professional, $CALLUS for enterprise.

Almost a breath of fresh air!


Right on the main page under a Pricing subheader...




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