Eating our own dog food!
We love eating our own dog food - that is, using the software we build ourselves - because it always forms a very big internal drive for more features and higher usability. If we don’t love using it ourselves, how can we expect our customers do?
We are now using EditGrid in the following ways - and it has worked pretty well so far:
Tracking Monthly Expenses - as a small company, we need to keep a close eye on our expenses. I’m looking forward to a charting features to visualise those figures~
Project Timesheets and Bug Lists - Besides EditGrid, we’re quite focus on providing software and relevant services to various local event organisers. Since some of these projects are charged by hours, we usually shared a timesheet with our clients to record how much time we have spent on each tasks. We also track the bugs reported by client and their status in EditGrid, too. Timesheets and bug lists are shared with our clients using EditGrid’s sharing feature!
Customer Contacts and Databases - By using EditGrid’s collaboration features, Pui-ki and I can now inputting - together - our thick stack of name cards collected since 5 years ago into an EditGrid spreadsheet. EditGrid’s collaboration feature is really great!
Other Mini-Databases - employee’s records, sick-leave records, annual-leave records, supplier’s contact list, etc. etc.
Seems a lot more interesting usages are yet to explore!
May 26th, 2006 at 4:36 am
At first glance I like EdiiGrid. I like the approach to collaboration. I seems to work better than most other online spreadsheets. What many people don’t realize that is that many collaborative spreadsheets are full of text. I like that you allow and Alt-Enter new line. What I would really like a bullited list capability _inside_ a cell. I usually just use * before each element as a work around. Basic text formatting inside a cell would be really really useful. Very basic textile subset like in Backpack would be great.
May 26th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Thanks for your comments! We shall look into the feasibility of your feature request!
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:18 pm
I suggest you rename your post to “Eating Our Own Caviar.”
OK… maybe a little exaggeration, but EditGrid is good!
Thanks for your efforts.